Will dingoes really conserve wildlife and can our methods tell?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 835-838

  Hayward, Matt W ^a   Marlow, Nicky ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detectability; Index of abundance; Mesopredator release hypothesis; Rewilding

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FELID; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO;

EID: 84904440272     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12250     Document Type: Article

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