Keystone effects of an alien top-predator stem extinctions of native mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3249-3256

  Letnic, Mike ^a   Koch, Freya ^a   Gordon, Chris ^a   Crowther, Mathew S ^a   Dickman, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Dingo; Keystone species; Mesopredator; Top predator; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIODIVERSITY; CANID; CARNIVORE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTINCTION; GRASS; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MASS EXTINCTION; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION MODELING; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DOG; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOX; HERBIVORE; KEYSTONE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TROPHIC CASCADE; VULPES VULPES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; MAMMALIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 70349436016     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0574     Document Type: Article

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