| initial study of arthropod succession on pig carrion in a central european urban habitat. | we conducted a carrion succession study within a restricted urban backyard in the city of vienna, austria (16 degrees 22'e, 48 degrees 12'n) from may to november 2001 to analyze sequence and composition of the local carrion visiting fauna. two medium sized clothed domestic pig carcasses (sus scrofa linnaeus), were used as surrogate human models. in total, 42 arthropod species from the families calliphoridae, sarcophagidae, sepsidae, piophilidae, muscidae, fanniidae, sphaeroceridae, phoridae, dro ... | 2004 | 15185958 |