Top predators as biodiversity regulators: the dingo Canis lupus dingo as a case study

M Letnic, EG Ritchie, CR Dickman - Biological Reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐order predators often have positive effects on biological diversity owing to their key
functional roles in regulating trophic cascades and other ecological processes. Their loss …

Monitoring wild pig populations: a review of methods

RM Engeman, G Massei, M Sage… - Environmental Science and …, 2013 - Springer
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are widespread across many landscapes throughout the world and
are considered to be an invasive pest to agriculture and the environment, or conversely a …

[PDF][PDF] Dogs as predators and trophic regulators

EG Ritchie, CR Dickman, M Letnic… - Free-ranging dogs and …, 2014 - academia.edu
© Oxford University Press 2014. Published 2014 by Oxford University Press. parts of the
world dogs, and in particular free-ranging dogs, have declined substantially due to direct …

A native apex predator limits an invasive mesopredator and protects native prey: Tasmanian devils protecting bandicoots from cats

CX Cunningham, CN Johnson, ME Jones - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Apex predators can limit the abundance and behaviour of mesopredators, thereby reducing
predation on smaller species. We know less about whether native apex predators are …

Identifying mesopredator release in multi‐predator systems: a review of evidence from North America

DS Jachowski, A Butler, RYY Eng, L Gigliotti… - Mammal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The mesopredator release hypothesis, defined as the change in distribution, abundance or
behaviour of a middle‐ranking predator in response to a decrease in density or distribution …