Demonising the dingo: How much wild dogma is enough?

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 668-670

  Letnic, Mike ^a   Crowther, Mathew S ^b   Dickman, Christopher R ^b   Ritchie, Euan G ^c  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dingo; Fox; Intra guild predation; Mesopredator release hypothesis; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO;

EID: 79961158732     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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