Assessing predation risk to threatened fauna from their prevalence in predator scats: Dingoes and rodents in arid Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Allen, Benjamin L ^a   Leung, Luke K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOME; CANIS LUPUS DINGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAUNA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTOMYS CERVINUS; NOTOMYS FUSCUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PREY; PSEUDOMYS AUSTRALIS; RODENT; ANIMAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MURIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WOLF;

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; CANIS LUPUS; MUS; NOTOMYS CERVINUS; NOTOMYS FUSCUS; PSEUDOMYS AUSTRALIS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; MURIDAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WOLVES;

EID: 84860424923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036426     Document Type: Article

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