Publications

assessing predation risk to threatened fauna from their prevalence in predator scats: dingoes and rodents in arid australia.	the prevalence of threatened species in predator scats has often been used to gauge the risks that predators pose to threatened species, with the infrequent occurrence of a given species often considered indicative of negligible predation risks. in this study, data from 4087 dingo (canis lupus dingo and hybrids) scats were assessed alongside additional information on predator and prey distribution, dingo control effort and predation rates to evaluate whether or not the observed frequency of thre ...	2012	22563498
mesopredator suppression by an apex predator alleviates the risk of predation perceived by small prey.	predators can impact their prey via consumptive effects that occur through direct killing, and via non-consumptive effects that arise when the behaviour and phenotypes of prey shift in response to the risk of predation. although predators' consumptive effects can have cascading population-level effects on species at lower trophic levels there is less evidence that predators' non-consumptive effects propagate through ecosystems. here we provide evidence that suppression of abundance and activity ...	2015	25652837
rabbit biocontrol and landscape-scale recovery of threatened desert mammals.	funding for species conservation is insufficient to meet the current challenges facing global biodiversity, yet many programs use expensive single-species recovery actions and neglect broader management that addresses threatening processes. arid australia has the world's worst modern mammalian extinction record, largely attributable to competition from introduced herbivores, particularly european rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) and predation by feral cats (felis catus) and foxes (vulpes vulpes). ...	2016	26852773
environmental effects are stronger than human effects on mammalian predator-prey relationships in arid australian ecosystems.	climate (drought, rainfall), geology (habitat availability), land use change (provision of artificial waterpoints, introduction of livestock), invasive species (competition, predation), and direct human intervention (lethal control of top-predators) have each been identified as processes driving the sustainability of threatened fauna populations. we used a systematic combination of empirical observational studies and experimental manipulations to comprehensively evaluate the effects of these pro ...	2017	28818660