More than mere numbers: The impact of lethal control on the social stability of a top-order predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Wallach, Arian D ^a   Ritchie, Euan G ^b   Read, John ^a   O'Neill, Adam J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Rangeland Research and Restoration   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINGO; LETHALITY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TERRITORIALITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WOLF; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; WILD ANIMAL;

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; CANIS LUPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WOLVES;

EID: 70149110221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006861     Document Type: Article

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