Killing animals has been a ubiquitous human behaviour throughout history, yet it is
becoming increasingly controversial and criticised in some parts of contemporary human …

Large carnivores are depicted to shape entire ecosystems through top-down processes.
Studies describing these processes are often used to support interventionist wildlife …

Introducing consumptive and non-consumptive effects into food webs can have profound
effects on individuals, populations and communities. This knowledge has led to the …

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 …

As both companion animals and opportunistic predators, dogs (Canis lupus spp.) have had
a long and complex relationship with humans. In Australia, the dingo (C. l. dingo) was …

Australian dingoes are threatened by interbreeding with domestic dogs. As a refuge from
further interbreeding, the conservation significance of dingoes on Fraser Island is …

The roles of the 37 species in the family Canidae (the dog family), are of great current
interest. The Gray Wolf is the largest canid and their roles in food webs are much …

Introduction Terrestrial top-predators are expected to regulate and stabilise food webs
through their consumptive and non-consumptive effects on sympatric mesopredators and …

Guardian animals have been a common non-lethal method for reducing predator impacts on
livestock for centuries in Europe. But elsewhere, livestock producers sometimes doubt …

Wild carnivores are becoming increasing common in urban areas. In Australia, dingoes
exist, in most large cities and towns within their extended range. However, little empirical …