More than half of the 1.5 millionred deerin the United Kingdome live in Scotland, where their population has doubled in the last half-century. The boom to their numbers comes from a total lack of predators, leaving the deer to reproduce with reckless abandon, causing significant upticks in...
Here we test predictions made according to the MRH that an apex predator, the dingo (Canis dingo), benefits a small ground-nesting bird, the little button-quail (Turnix velox), by reducing the abundance of introduced mesopredators, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and feral cat (Felis catus)....
We investigated the activity of one native apex predator, the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) and two invasive mesopredators, the feral cat (Felis catus) and the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in two different vegetation types (woodland and shrubland) with contrasting structure and permeability. We ...
dingo; carnivore diet; apex predators; prey availability; seasonal variation; threatened species; long-nosed potoroo; red-legged pademelon; black-striped wallaby; koala1. Introduction Predation by mammalian carnivores (hereafter carnivores) can jeopardise the persistence of threatened species [1,2,3,4,...
dingo; carnivore diet; apex predators; prey availability; seasonal variation; threatened species; long-nosed potoroo; red-legged pademelon; black-striped wallaby; koala1. Introduction Predation by mammalian carnivores (hereafter carnivores) can jeopardise the persistence of threatened species [1,2,3,4,...