Population dynamics, diet and aspects of the biology of feral cats and foxes in arid South Australia

By John L. Read, Zoë Bowen. 2001

220 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. Mike Letnic
2. Chris R. Dickman
3. T. Doherty
4. M. Crowther
5. F. Koch
6. J. Cupples
7. G. Story
8. K. Moseby

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Mike Letnic
2. B. Cooke
3. K. Moseby
4. F. Koch
5. Chris R. Dickman
6. Stephen T. Garnett
7. K. Wilson
8. M. Crowther

Citations in the corpus

• Rabbit haemorrhagic disease and the biological control of wild rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus, in Australia and New Zealand (2002, unknown): “These authors (Read and Bowen 2001) have since shown that, when rabbit numbers fell, the number of cats recorded on transects fell by approximately 70%, and these predators have since remained low.”
• Are dingoes a trophic regulator in arid Australia? A comparison of mammal communities on either side of the dingo fence (2010, background): “Spotlight surveys have been used in previous studies of small, medium and large mammals in the Australian arid zone (Morton 1978; Read & Bowen 2001; Moseby et al. 2006) and were suitable for estimating the abundance of a range of mammal species of different body sizes in the Strzelecki Desert…”
• How many reptiles are killed by cats in Australia? (2018, background): “The only previous estimate of the numbers of reptiles killed by cats per area or per year for any site in Australia is that of Read and Bowen (2001) for a site (Roxby Downs) in arid South Australia.”
• Dietary overlap and prey selectivity among sympatric carnivores: could dingoes suppress foxes through competition for prey? (2011, background): “Because of the sparse vegetation and understory in the Australian arid zone, spotlight surveys have been used previously in this region to estimate abundance of mediumand large-sized mammals (Letnic and Koch 2010; Read and Bowen 2001).”
• Managing for change: wetland transitions under sea‐level rise and outcomes for threatened species (2011, background): “Thus, we estimated that feral cats can consume up to three species of vertebrate per 24 h (Read & Bowen, 2001), that only 50% of urban cats were likely to kill native wildlife and that, of those, 37% would catch native rodents (REARK Research, 1994).”
• Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management (2015, background): “However, shooting has been used to effectively remove small numbers of individual cats (Bester et al., 2000; Read and Bowen, 2001), and different lures and baits show some promise in attracting individual cats which may then be trapped.”
• Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: The number of mammals killed in Australia (2019, background): “The pattern we observed is also 468 consistent with that previously described at a local scale by Read and Bowen (2001) and at a national 469 scale by Doherty et al. (2015), who reported an inverse relationship between the frequency of 470 rabbits and of native mammals in the diet of feral cats…”
• Does a top‐predator provide an endangered rodent with refuge from an invasive mesopredator? (2009, background): “…dingo, cat and N. fuscus abundance is that cat populations in the arid zone are driven by spatial and temporal variation in the availability of their primary prey species, rabbits and rodents (Read & Bowen, 2001; Holden & Mutze, 2002; Letnic et al., 2005), more so than the presence of dingoes.”
• Feral cat diet and impact on sooty terns at Juan de Nova Island, Mozambique Channel (2008, methodology): “Spotlight transect surveys were conducted at least once per week throughout the trapping period using the method of Read & Bowen (2001) .”
• Rabbits: manageable environmental pests or participants in new Australian ecosystems? (2012, background): “As anticipated, surviving cats and foxes ate more native prey (commonly reptiles) to make up for the lack of rabbits (Read and Bowen 2001; Holden and Mutze 2002); however, this dietary shift was off-set by falls in predator abundance (Cooke and Fenner 2002; Holden andMutze 2002).”
• How many birds are killed by cats in Australia (2017, background): “…(iii) cats may kill some birds but not necessarily consume them (‘surplus kill’); and (iv) eggs and chicks with largely undeveloped feathers may be rapidly digested and leave little trace (Davies and Prentice, 1980; George, 1978; Hubbs, 1951; Jackson, 1951; Loss et al., 2013; Read and Bowen, 2001).”
• Catastrophic cat predation: A call for predator profiling in wildlife protection programs (2015, background): “Being a medium-sized carnivore capable of killing prey the size of rabbits, western quollswere predicted to presentmore challenging prey for cats than the small rodents, rabbits, lizards and birds that constitute the majority of regional cat prey (Holden andMutze, 2002;Molsher et al., 1999; Read and”
• Interactions between a Top Order Predator and Exotic Mesopredators in the Australian Rangelands (2012, unknown): “6 [58]).”
• Movement patterns of feral predators in an arid environment – implications for control through poison baiting (2009, background): “Activity patterns could be expected to be related to the activity patterns of the keyprey species, and the keyprey item in the study region for both cats and foxes is rabbits (Read and Bowen 2001).”