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Could Direct Killing by Larger Dingoes Have Caused the Extinction of the Thylacine from Mainland Australia?

Invasive predators can impose strong selection pressure on species that evolved in their absence and drive species to extinction. Interactions between coexisting predators may be particularly strong, as larger predators frequently kill smaller predators and suppress their abundances. Until 3500 year...

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Autores principales: Letnic, Mike, Fillios, Melanie, Crowther, Mathew S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034877