Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013

There has been much recent debate in Australia over whether lethal control of dingoes incurs environmental costs, particularly by allowing increase of populations of mesopredators such as red foxes and feral cats. Allen et al. (2013) claim to show in their recent study that suppression of dingo acti...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Johnson, Christopher N, Crowther, Mathew S, Dickman, Chris R, Letnic, Michael I, Newsome, Thomas M, Nimmo, Dale G, Ritchie, Euan G, Wallach, Arian D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24558973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-17
_version_ 1782305459433111552
author Johnson, Christopher N
Crowther, Mathew S
Dickman, Chris R
Letnic, Michael I
Newsome, Thomas M
Nimmo, Dale G
Ritchie, Euan G
Wallach, Arian D
author_facet Johnson, Christopher N
Crowther, Mathew S
Dickman, Chris R
Letnic, Michael I
Newsome, Thomas M
Nimmo, Dale G
Ritchie, Euan G
Wallach, Arian D
author_sort Johnson, Christopher N
collection PubMed
description There has been much recent debate in Australia over whether lethal control of dingoes incurs environmental costs, particularly by allowing increase of populations of mesopredators such as red foxes and feral cats. Allen et al. (2013) claim to show in their recent study that suppression of dingo activity by poison baiting does not lead to mesopredator release, because mesopredators are also suppressed by poisoning. We show that this claim is not supported by the data and analysis reported in Allen et al.’s paper.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3937246
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2014
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-39372462014-02-28 Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013 Johnson, Christopher N Crowther, Mathew S Dickman, Chris R Letnic, Michael I Newsome, Thomas M Nimmo, Dale G Ritchie, Euan G Wallach, Arian D Front Zool Commentary There has been much recent debate in Australia over whether lethal control of dingoes incurs environmental costs, particularly by allowing increase of populations of mesopredators such as red foxes and feral cats. Allen et al. (2013) claim to show in their recent study that suppression of dingo activity by poison baiting does not lead to mesopredator release, because mesopredators are also suppressed by poisoning. We show that this claim is not supported by the data and analysis reported in Allen et al.’s paper. BioMed Central 2014-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3937246/ /pubmed/24558973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-17 Text en Copyright © 2014 Johnson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Commentary
Johnson, Christopher N
Crowther, Mathew S
Dickman, Chris R
Letnic, Michael I
Newsome, Thomas M
Nimmo, Dale G
Ritchie, Euan G
Wallach, Arian D
Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013
title Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013
title_full Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013
title_fullStr Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013
title_full_unstemmed Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013
title_short Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013
title_sort experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on allen et al. 2013
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24558973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-17
work_keys_str_mv AT johnsonchristophern experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT crowthermathews experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT dickmanchrisr experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT letnicmichaeli experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT newsomethomasm experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT nimmodaleg experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT ritchieeuang experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013
AT wallachariand experimentsinnoimpactcontrolofdingoescommentonallenetal2013

Ejemplares similares