The short-term effects of a routine poisoning campaign on the movements and detectability of a social top-predator

摘要: Top-predators can be important components of resilient ecosystems, but they are still controlled in many places to mitigate a variety economic, environmental and/or social impacts. Lethal control is often achieved through the broad-scale application poisoned baits. Understanding direct and indirect effects such lethal on subsequent movements behaviour survivors an pre-requisite for interpreting efficacy ecological outcomes top-predator control. In this study, we use GPS tracking collars investigate fine-scale short-term dingoes (Canis lupus dingo other wild dogs) response routine poison-baiting program as example how common, respond (behaviourally) moderate levels population reduction. We found no consistent control-induced differences home range size or location, daily distance travelled, speed travel, temporal activity patterns road/trail usage seven surviving monitored immediately before after typical event. These data suggest that spatial was not altered ways likely affect their detectability, if changes dingoes' function did occur, these may related movement patterns.