Multiple threats, or multiplying the threats? Interactions between invasive predators and other ecological disturbances

TS Doherty, CR Dickman, DG Nimmo, EG Ritchie - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Invasive species have reshaped the composition of biomes across the globe, and
considerable cost is now associated with minimising their ecological, social and economic …

Impacts and management of feral cats Felis catus in Australia

TS Doherty, CR Dickman, CN Johnson… - Mammal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Feral cats are among the most damaging invasive species worldwide, and are implicated in
many extinctions, especially in Australia, New Zealand and other islands. Understanding …

Enumerating a continental-scale threat: how many feral cats are in Australia?

S Legge, BP Murphy, H McGregor, JCZ Woinarski… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Feral cats (Felis catus) have devastated wildlife globally. In Australia, feral cats are
implicated in most recent mammal extinctions and continue to threaten native species. Cat …

Review and synthesis of the global literature on domestic cat impacts on wildlife

SR Loss, B Boughton, SM Cady… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A vast global literature documents that free‐roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) have
substantial negative effects on wildlife, including through predation, fear, disease and …

We need to worry about Bella and Charlie: the impacts of pet cats on Australian wildlife

S Legge, JCZ Woinarski, CR Dickman… - Wildlife …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Research and management attention on the impacts of the introduced domestic cat (Felis
catus) on Australian fauna have focussed mainly on the feral population. Here, we …

Prey selection and predation behavior of free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) in an urban ecosystem: Implications for urban cat management

DJ Herrera, MV Cove, WJ McShea, DT Flockhart… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ecological impact of free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) is well-studied. However,
despite receiving considerable attention in both the scientific and popular literature …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal overlap of domestic cats (Felis catus) and native urban wildlife

DJ Herrera, MV Cove, WJ McShea, S Decker… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are known to pose threats to ecosystem health via
transmission of zoonotic diseases and predation of native wildlife. Likewise, free-roaming …

Parasite spread at the domestic animal - wildlife interface: anthropogenic habitat use, phylogeny and body mass drive risk of cat and dog flea (Ctenocephalides spp.) …

NJ Clark, JM Seddon, J Šlapeta, K Wells - Parasites & vectors, 2018 - Springer
Background Spillover of parasites at the domestic animal-wildlife interface is a pervasive
threat to animal health. Cat and dog fleas (Ctenocephalides felis and C. canis) are among …

Feral cat home‐range size varies predictably with landscape productivity and population density

AJ Bengsen, D Algar, G Ballard… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An understanding of the factors that drive inter‐population variability in home‐range size is
essential for managing the impacts of invasive species with broad global distributions, such …

Integrating feral cat (Felis catus) control into landscape-scale introduced predator management to improve conservation prospects for threatened fauna: a case study …

S Comer, L Clausen, S Cowen, J Pinder… - Wildlife …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Feral cat predation has had a significant impact on native Australian fauna in the
past 200 years. In the early 2000s, population monitoring of the western ground parrot …