| Titre : | Wildlife Research : Management and Conservation 39(3) - 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Andrew J. Bengsen, Auteur ;
John A. Butler, Auteur ;
Pip Masters, Auteur
Context. Effective feral-cat (Felis silvestris catus) management requires a sound understanding of the ways cats use their environment. Key characteristics of landscape use by cats vary widely among different regions and different conditions. Ai[...]
Article
Juan Cornejo, Auteur ;
Ryan Taylor, Auteur ;
Thomas Sliffe, Auteur ;
Christopher A. Bailey, Auteur ;
Donald J. Brightsmith, Auteur
Context. It is difficult to determine with accuracy the nutrition of bird diets through observation and analysis of dietary items. Collection of the ingested material from the birds provides an alternative but it is often limited by the small si[...]
Article
Gerald Louette, Auteur
Context. The control of invasive alien species is essential for securing native biodiversity. As for the American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw 1802), suspected to cause ecological damage around large parts of the globe, comprehensive [...]
Article
S. Campbell, Auteur ;
S. Cook, Auteur ;
L. Mortimer, Auteur ;
G. Palmer, Auteur ;
R. Sinclair, Auteur ;
A. P. Woolnough, Auteur
Context. Worldwide, invasive fauna species present one of the most intractable problems for agriculture and natural systems. Our ability to improve control techniques to combat the global invasive species predicament is constrained within the bo[...]
Article
Federico Crovetto, Auteur ;
Antonio Romano, Auteur ;
Sebastiano Salvidio, Auteur
Context. Concerns about conservation and ethics in amphibian research have been raised recently; therefore, non-lethal methods should always be preferred to investigate food habits in wild populations. However, there are no studies that compared[...]
Article
Linda van Bommel, Auteur ;
Chris N. Johnson, Auteur
Context. Wild predators are a serious threat to livestock in Australia. Livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) may be able to reduce or eliminate predation, but their effectiveness in Australian grazing systems has not been systematically evaluated. In [...]
Article
Ann-Charlotte Heiberg, Auteur ;
Vincent Sluydts, Auteur ;
Herwig Leirs, Auteur
Context. In many parts of the world, brown rats have colonised sewer systems and the rat populations in sewers are often thought to be a source of problems with rats on the surface. The management of sewer rat populations is usually performed wi[...]
Article
Nguyen Thi My Phung, Auteur ;
Peter R. Brown, Auteur ;
Luke K.-P. Leung, Auteur
Context. Rice-field rodent pests cause substantial economic losses in Asia. In Vietnam, the rice-field rat (Rattus argentiventer) causes 5-10% annual pre-harvest loss in rice yield. A sound ecological knowledge of this species would be useful fo[...]
Article
John K. Maingi, Auteur ;
Joseph M. Mukeka, Auteur ;
Daniel M. Kyale, Auteur ;
Robert M. Muasya, Auteur
Context. Poaching of the African elephant for ivory had been on the increase since 1997 when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) allowed a one-off legal sale of ivory by several southern Africa countries. In Kenya[...]
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Michael Bode, Auteur ;
Karl E. C. Brennan, Auteur ;
Keith Morris, Auteur ;
Neil Burrows, Auteur ;
Neville Hague, Auteur
Context. Exclosure fences are widely used to reintroduce locally extinct animals. These fences function either as permanent landscape-scale areas free from most predators, or as small-scale temporary acclimatisation areas for newly translocated [...]
