The red fox in Australia—an exotic predator turned biocontrol agent

By J. E. Kinnear, N. Sumner, M. Onus. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The impacts and management of foxes Vulpes vulpes in Australia (2010, background): “2004), and circumstantial observations suggest that numbers of both dibblers Parantechinus apicalis (~80g) and red-tailed phascogales Phascogale calura (~60g) increase when fox numbers have been reduced (Kinnear et al. 2002).”
Predator recognition of native but not invasive turtle predators by naïve anuran tadpoles (2010, background): “The impact of alien predators on prey populations is well documented (Dickman 1996; Kinnear et al. 2002), but less attention has been paid to the competitive advantages of alien predatory species over endangered native ones.”
Alien predators are more dangerous than native predators to prey populations (2007, background): “…scarcity of studies outside Australia probably derives from the welldocumented invasions of alien species to Australia (Rolls 1969; Dickman 1996; Kinnear et al. 2002; Long 2003) and the coincidental acute loss of native mammals, which prompted some of the earliest experimental studies of the…”
Classification of ecosystem services: Problems and solutions (2007, background): “Researchers investigated a range of processes before finding that predation by the introduced fox (Vulpes vulpes) was one of the major factors in the decline of native mammals (Kinnear et al., 2002).”
Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change (2010, background): “Foxes and cats are the main cause of most species’ collapses in the arid zone of Australia (Jarman 1986; Kinnear et al. 2002).”
Contrasting mammal responses to vegetation type and fire (2008, background): “Many studies suggest that some species of medium-sized terrestrial mammals are highly susceptible to predation by terrestrial feral predators such as the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) (Burbidge and McKenzie 1989; Smith and Quin 1996; Kinnear et al. 2002; Murray et al. 2006).”
Predator-baiting experiments for the conservation of rock-wallabies in Western Australia: a 25-year review with recent advances (2010, background): “These extensions of habitat use (realised niche expansion because of predator release) are commonplace responses by other RW populations, and other species subject to fox control such as the woylie Bettongia penicillata (Kinnear et al. 2002).”
Body mass and extinction risk in Australian marsupials: The ‘Critical Weight Range’ revisited (2009, background): “There is growing historical and experimental evidence of a significant role for predation by the introduced red fox Vulpes vulpes and feral cat Felis catus in the decline of many Australian mammals (Dickman 1996a,b; Smith & Quinn 1996; Short 1998; Kinnear et al. 2002; Johnson 2006; Johnson et al. ”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “Removal of the red fox from around declining black-footed rockwallaby Petrogale lateralis colonies provided compelling evidence of predation impact, with subsequent recovery of a prey species (70).”
The current decline of tropical marsupials in Australia: Is history repeating? (2014, background): “Because foxes can cause extinctions of populations of marsupials up to ~6000 g (Short, 1998; Kinnear et al., 2002) and are absent from rainforest (Johnson, 2006), the ‘critical weight range’ is consistent with the hypothesis that foxes are responsible for most marsupial declines in southern Australi”
Climatic Suitability, Life‐History Traits, Introduction Effort, and the Establishment and Spread of Introduced Mammals in Australia (2004, background): “The impacts of exotic mammals have been particularly severe in Australia (Bomford & Hart 2002; Kinnear et al. 2002), and the Australian Vertebrate Pests Committee (VPC) has recently reviewed measures for the exclusion of potential vertebrate pests introduced from overseas (VPC 2003).”
Dietary overlap and prey selectivity among sympatric carnivores: could dingoes suppress foxes through competition for prey? (2011, background): “Predation by foxes also has been identified as a major threat to native fauna with masses ,10 kg (Kinnear et al. 2002).”