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Competition in an invaded rodent community reveals black rats as a threat to native bush rats in littoral rainforest of south-eastern Australia.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Stokes, V. L. & Banks, P. B. & Pech, R. P. & Spratt, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Interspecific competition is a recognized but under-studied mechanism by which invasive species affect native fauna. We experimentally reduced populat...

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Hunting for large carnivore conservation.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Treves, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Carnivores are difficult to conserve because of direct and indirect competition with people. Public hunts are increasingly proposed to support carnivo...

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Interference competition at the landscape level: the effect of free-ranging dogs on a native mesocarnivore.

Published online: 01 Dec 2010

Authors: Vanak, A. T. & Gompper, M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Free-ranging domestic dogs are the world's most common carnivore and can negatively interact with native wildlife at multiple levels. Yet the intragui...

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The distribution of grey squirrel dreys in farm woodland: the influence of wood area, isolation and management.

Published online: 29 Mar 1995

Authors: Fitzgibbon, C. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sixty-eight deciduous woodlands, ranging in size from 0.2 to 12.5 ha, were surveyed in East Anglia, UK, and the density of grey squirrels (Sciurus car...

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Invasion pathways at a crossroad: policy and research challenges for managing alien species introductions.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Hulme, P. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity have agreed that, by 2020, invasion pathways will be identified, prioritized and managed to prevent ...

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Assessing metabarcoding methods for re-analysis of pond DNA samples: Towards a new metric for assessment of pond condition.

Published online: 24 Jan 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Ward, G. & Robertson, C. & Ryder, D. & Bass, D.

Content type: Reports

The aims of this study were to determine whether the quality and quantity of plant and eukaryote DNA present in the district level licensing (DLL) sam...

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Influence of introduced reindeer on the vegetation of South Georgia: results from a long-term exclusion experiment.

Published online: 25 Oct 1988

Authors: Leader-Williams, N. & Smith, R. I. L. & Rothery, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

South Georgia has a species-poor vascular flora that is not adapted to grazing by vertebrates and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) introduced in 1911 and ...

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Shifting up a gear with iDNA : from mammal detection events to standardised surveys.

Published online: 23 Jul 2020

Authors: Abrams, J. F. & Hörig, L. A. & Brozovic, R. & Axtner, J. & Crampton-Platt, A. & Mohamed, A. & Wong, S. T. & Sollmann, R. & Yu, D. W. & Wilting Andreas

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA), in combination with high throughput sequencing, has been proposed as a cost-efficient and powerful tool to survey ...

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Demography of a high-density tiger population and its implications for tiger recovery.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Shikha Bisht & Sudip Banerjee & Qamar Qureshi & Yadavendradev Jhala

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Prioritizing conservation of source populations within landscapes is proposed as a strategy for recovering tigers globally. We studied population dyna...

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An examination of the accuracy of a sequential PCR and sequencing test used to detect the incursion of an invasive species: the case of the red fox in Tasmania.

Published online: 10 Jun 2015

Authors: Ramsey, D. S. L. & MacDonald, A. J. & Quasim, S. & Barclay, C. & Sarre, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic tests are increasingly applied to the identification of wildlife. Yet rigorous verification is rare and the...

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