Ecological costs of feral predator control: foxes and rabbits
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The red fox was introduced into Australia in the 1850s, since when it has become a major pest, particularly preying on some 30 vulnerable or endangered native species. Its other main target is another introduced pest species, the European rabbit. A new study investigates the ecological effects of red fox control and the responses of the rabbit population in Namadgi National Park, Canberra. The experiment showed that the rabbit population increased when red foxes were removed and concluded that there may be a potentially great ecological cost of predator control.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 1998
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Spatial ecology of bobcats and gray foxes in urban and rural zones of a national park
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The wide-ranging and low-density species of mammalian carnivores such as bobcats (Lynx rufus) and gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) are particularly vulnerable to the effects of urbanization and their effective conservation would be better achieved if the impact of adjacent urbanization on carnivores in reserves is correctly understood. A comparison of the spatial ecology of the two species in urban and rural zones of a national park in northern California, USA provides an insight into the impact of the proximity of urbanization on them.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 2006
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Can foxes regulate rabbit populations?
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Research undertaken in Namadgi National Park in the Brindabella Ranges near Canberra, Australia, provides further evidence that rabbit populations may escape regulation by fox predation. It is possible that fox predation only suppresses rabbit populations at lower densities.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 2000
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