Carnivores of Australia : past, present and future / editors, A.S. Glen and C.R. Dickman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glen, A. S., editor.

Dickman, C. R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnivorous animals--Australia.

Carnivorous animals.

Predation (Biology)--Australia.

Predation (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Victoria : Csiro Publishing, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Australian continent provides a unique perspective on the evolution and ecology of carnivorous animals. In earlier ages, Australia provided the arena for a spectacular radiation of marsupial and reptilian predators. The causes of their extinctions are still the subject of debate. Since European settlement, Australia has seen the extinction of one large marsupial predator (the thylacine), another (the Tasmanian devil) is in danger of imminent extinction, and still others have suffered dramatic declines. By contrast, two recently-introduced predators, the fox and cat, have been spectacularly

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The importance of predators; 2 The rise and fall of large marsupial carnivores; 3 Giant terrestrial reptilian carnivores of Cenozoic Australia; 4 The arrival and impacts of the dingo; 5 The new guard: the arrival and impacts of cats and foxes; 6 Management of wild canids in Australia: free-ranging dogs and red foxes; 7 When is a dingo not a dingo? Hybridisation with domestic dogs; 8 Measuring and managing the impacts of cats; 9 Australia's surviving marsupial carnivores: threats and conservation

10 Micro-carnivores: the ecological role of small dasyurid predators in Australia11 Reptilian predators: the forgotten majority?; 12 Fur, feathers and scales: interactions between mammalian, reptilian and avianpredators; 13 Strongly interactive carnivore species: maintaining and restoringecosystem function; 14 Protecting livestock while conserving ecosystem function: non-lethalmanagement of wild predators; 15 The role of predator exclosures in the conservation of Australian fauna; 16 Concerns over management intensity: a framework for threatened speciesand predator management

17 Olfaction and predator-prey interactions amongst mammals in Australia18 Carnivore communities: challenges and opportunities for conservation; Index

Notes:

Two columns to each page of text.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2014).

ISBN:

9780643103184

064310318X

9780643103177

0643103171