The role of lethal control in managing the effects of apparent competition on endangered prey species

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1220-1224

  Gibson, Luke ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b c/o Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary ^*  (Thailand)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Channel island fox; Endangered species management; Hyper predation; Lethal control; Ovis canadensis californiana; Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep; Urocyon littoralis

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; CANID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR CONTROL; SHEEP;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; PUMA CONCOLOR; UROCYON LITTORALIS;

EID: 33845950934     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[1220:TROLCI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Berger, J., and J. D. Wehausen. 1991. Consequences of a mammalian predator-prey disequilibrium in the Great Basin desert. Conservation Biology 5:244-248.
2. California Department of Fish and Game. 2005. Mountain lion depredation statistics by county. 〈http:/www.dfg.ca.gov/news/issues/lion/depredation. html〉. Accessed 2005 Dec 1.
3. Courchamp, F., M. Langlais, and G. Sugihara. 1999. Control of rabbits to protect island birds from cat predation. Biological Conservation 89:219-225.
4. Courchamp, F., R. Woodroffe, and G. Roemer. 2003. Removing protected predators to save endangered species. Science 302:1532.
5. Ernest, H. B., E. S. Rubin, and W. M. Boyce. 2002. Fecal DNA analysis and risk assessment of mountain lion predation of bighorn sheep. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:75-85.
6. Holt, R. D. 1977. Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities. Theoretical Population Biology 12:197-229.
7. Krausman, P. R., A. V. Sandoval, and R. C. Etchberger. 1999. Natural history of desert bighorn sheep. Pages 139-191 in R. Valdez and P. R. Krausman, editors. Mountain sheep in North America. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
8. Krausman, P. R., and D. M. Shackleton. 2000. Bighorn sheep. Pages 517-544 in S. Demarais and P. R. Krausman, editors. Ecology and management of large mammals in North America. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA.
9. Mohr, R. C., V. Barr-Evans, and J. Miller. 2003. 2003 California deer kill report. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, USA.
10. National Park Service. 2003. Recovery strategy for island foxes (Urocyon littoralis) on the northern Channel Islands. National Park Service, Ventura, California, USA.
11. National Park Service. 2004. Island fox recovery program: 2003 annual report. National Park Service, Ventura, California, USA.
12. Roemer, G. W., T. J. Coonan, D. K. Garcelon, J. Bascompte, and L. Laughrin. 2001. Feral pigs facilitate hyper-predation by golden eagles and indirectly cause the decline of the island fox. Animal Conservation 4:307-318.
13. Roemer, G. W., and C. J. Donlan. 2004. Biology, policy, and law in endangered species conservation: I. the case history of the island fox on the northern Channel Islands. Endangered Species Update 21:23-31.
14. Roemer, G. W., C. J. Donlan, and F. Courchamp. 2002. Golden eagles, feral pigs, and insular carnivores: how exotic species turn native predators into prey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA 99:791-796.
15. Rubin, E. S., W. M. Boyce, and E. P. Caswell-Chen. 2002. Modeling demographic processes in an endangered population of bighorn sheep. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:796-810.
16. Rupp, S. P., W. B. Ballard, and M. C. Wallace. 2000. A nationwide evaluation of deer hunter harvest survey techniques. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:570-578.
17. Sawyer, H., and F. Lindzey. 2002. A review of predation on bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Laramie, USA.
18. Torres, S. G., T. M. Mansfield, J. E. Foley, T. Lupo, and A. Brinkhaus. 1996. Mountain lion and human activity in California: testing speculations. Wildlife Society Bulletin 24:451-460.
19. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Draft recovery plan for the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon, USA.
20. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2004. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; listing the San Miguel Island Fox, Santa Rosa Island Fox, Santa Cruz Island Fox, and Santa Catalina Island Fox as endangered. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ventura, California, USA.
21. Watson, J., S. R. Rae, and R. Stillman. 1992. Nesting density and breeding success of golden eagles in relation to food supply in Scotland. Journal of Animal Ecology 61:543-550.
22. Wehausen, J. D. 1996. Effects of mountain lion predation on bighorn sheep in the Sierra Nevada and Granite Mountains of California. Wildlife Society Bulletin 24:471-479.