Conserving Australia's threatened native mammals in predator-invaded, fire-prone landscapes

BA Hradsky - Wildlife Research, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Inappropriate fire regimes and predation by introduced species each pose a major threat to
Australia's native mammals. They also potentially interact, an issue that is likely to be …

[HTML][HTML] Stuck in the mud: Persistent failure of 'the science'to provide reliable information on the ecological roles of Australian dingoes

G Castle, MS Kennedy, BL Allen - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Apex predators are believed to play important roles in maintaining the structure and function
of ecological systems, but actual evidence for mesopredator releases and trophic cascades …

Counting the bodies: Estimating the numbers and spatial variation of Australian reptiles, birds and mammals killed by two invasive mesopredators

AM Stobo‐Wilson, BP Murphy, SM Legge… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Introduced predators negatively impact biodiversity globally, with insular fauna often
most severely affected. Here, we assess spatial variation in the number of terrestrial …

Top-down and bottom-up effects modulate species co-existence in a context of top predator restoration

T Burgos, J Salesa, JM Fedriani, G Escribano-Ávila… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Mesopredators abundance is often limited by top-order predators and also by key food
resources. However, the contribution of these bidirectional forces to structure carnivore …

A method for automatic identification and separation of wildlife images using ensemble learning

DY Meng, T Li, HX Li, M Zhang, K Tan, ZP Huang… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Camera traps have revolutionized wildlife resource surveys by enabling the acquisition of
comprehensive ecosystem information. Camera traps usually produce massive images …

A test of motion‐sensitive cameras to index ungulate densities: group size matters

F Ferretti, L Lazzeri, N Fattorini - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of species detection rates gathered from motion‐sensitive cameras as relative
abundance indices (RAIs) could be a cost‐effective tool to monitor wildlife populations; …

Estimating deer density and abundance using spatial mark–resight models with camera trap data

AJ Bengsen, DM Forsyth, DSL Ramsey… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Globally, many wild deer populations are actively studied or managed for conservation,
hunting, or damage mitigation purposes. These studies require reliable estimates of …

Testing the precision and sensitivity of density estimates obtained with a camera‐trap method revealed limitations and opportunities

P Pettigrew, D Sigouin, MH St‐Laurent - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of camera traps in ecology helps affordably address questions about the distribution
and density of cryptic and mobile species. The random encounter model (REM) is a camera …

Does aerial baiting for controlling feral cats in a heterogeneous landscape confer benefits to a threatened native meso-predator?

R Palmer, H Anderson, B Richards, MD Craig… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduced mammalian predators can have devastating impacts on recipient ecosystems
and disrupt native predator–prey relationships. Feral cats (Felis catus) have been implicated …

A review on estimating population size of large and medium-sized mammals

Y Li - Biodiversity Science, 2021 - biodiversity-science.net
Context: Estimating the population size of large and medium-sized mammals is a
fundamental issue in animal ecology, attracting great attention from researchers, managers …