Surplus killing by introduced predators in Australia—evidence for ineffective anti-predator adaptations in native prey species?

By Jeff Short, J. E. Kinnear, A. Robley. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of nonnative species (2013, background): “Similarly, in Australia, European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) subsidize the European fox (Vulpes vulpes), promoting its surplus killing of naı̈ve native prey (Short et al. 2002).”
Analysis of factors implicated in the recent decline of Australia's mammal fauna (2007, background): “This implicates predation as a factor, at least under particular circumstances such as in eradicating remnant populations (Morton, 1990; Kerle et al., 1992; Johnson et al., 1996; Short et al., 2002), and during resource bottlenecks (Marlow, 1992).”
Livestock depredation by wolves and the ranching economy in the Northwestern U.S. (2009, background): “Sheep are easy prey for canids due to their small body size, low agility and lack of Please cite this article as: Muhly, T.B., Musiani, M., Livestock depredati Ecological Economics (2009), doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.04.008 defensemechanisms (i.e., horns; Short et al., 2002).”
Catastrophic cat predation: A call for predator profiling in wildlife protection programs (2015, background): “Cage traps have been found to catch younger cats and those that scavenge for food whilst leghold traps catch more male cats and hunters (Short et al., 2002).”
Interactions between a Top Order Predator and Exotic Mesopredators in the Australian Rangelands (2012, background): “There is some evidence to suggest that surplus killing in the dingo is not as common or devastating to native wildlife as the introduced red fox [66], but this is yet to be proven experimentally.”
Current status and future directions of applied behavioral research for animal welfare and conservation (2007, unknown): “as large as Australia (Short et al., 2002).”
Origin matters: alien consumers inflict greater damage on prey populations than do native consumers (2013, background): “They acknowledge that their results may have been influenced by strong impacts recorded in Australia – an isolated region with few large native carnivorous mammals (Short et al., 2002) and which accounted for half of their data records.”