Effectiveness and costs of helicopter-based shooting of deer

AJ Bengsen, DM Forsyth, A Pople, M Brennan… - Wildlife …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Helicopter-based shooting has been widely used to harvest deer or control
overabundant populations in Australasia, but the effectiveness and cost of this method as a …

Animal welfare outcomes of helicopter-based shooting of deer in Australia

JO Hampton, AJ Bengsen, A Pople, M Brennan… - Wildlife …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
AbstractContext Helicopter-based shooting has been widely used to kill deer in Australasia,
but the animal welfare outcomes of this technique have not been evaluated. Aim To assess …

Invasive axis deer and wild boar in a protected area in Argentina, controlled hunting, and Taylor's law

RE Gürtler, JE Cohen - Wildlife Research, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
AbstractContext Spatial and temporal variability in population density tends to increase with
an increasing mean density, as widely documented by Taylor's law (TL) of fluctuation …

Determining abundance predictors of the European Hare (Lepus europaeus), a global invader in southeastern Brazil

N Pasqualotto, LL Bailey, D Boscolo… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract European Hare (Lepus europaeus), like many invasive species, have declined in
much of their native range but flourished in non-native regions (eg South America). Previous …

Minimising mortalities in capturing wildlife: refinement of helicopter darting of chital deer (Axis axis) in Australia

JO Hampton, M Amos, A Pople, M Brennan… - Wildlife …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Helicopter darting has been used to capture wild deer, but this method has never
been used for chital deer (Axis axis). Aim The aims of this study were to develop, assess and …

Does water availability shift dietary preferences of coyotes in the west desert of Utah?

AE Hodge, EM Gese, BM Kluever - Journal of Arid Environments, 2022 - Elsevier
Water is one of the most essential resources on the planet and shapes entire ecosystems.
Across the western United States, thousands of artificial water sources have been installed …

Quantifying variations in browsing pressure caused by feral deer for a range of threatened ecological communities and plant growth forms

H Burns, P Gibbons, A Claridge - Austral Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, high‐density populations of feral deer have been associated with a range of
negative ecological consequences. Within Australia, limited quantitative research has …

Does the interface with plantation forests provide suitable habitat for axis deer (Axis axis) to avoid systematic hunting pressure in a protected area of north-eastern …

M Burgueño, LI Rodríguez-Planes, G Nicosia… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Axis deer (Axis axis), an introduced invasive species of growing concern around the globe,
have rapidly expanded through the southern cone countries in South America. Despite …

Dietary overlap between cattle and chital in the Queensland dry tropics

K Watter, GS Baxter, A Pople… - The Rangeland Journal, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Chital deer (Axis axis) are an ungulate species introduced to northern Queensland,
Australia, in an environment where land is managed for large scale cattle production …

Seasonal diet preferences of chital deer in the northern Queensland dry tropics, Australia

K Watter, G Baxter, M Brennan, T Pople… - The Rangeland …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Chital deer (Axis axis) were introduced to the Burdekin dry tropics of north Queensland,
Australia, in the late 1800s. Here rainfall and plant growth are highly seasonal and a …