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Feral Cats Are Better Killers in Open Habitats, Revealed by Animal-Borne Video by McGregor, Hugh, Legge, Sarah, Jones, Menna E, Johnson, Christopher N

“…One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small mammalian predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting success of…”
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Landscape management of fire and grazing regimes alters the fine-scale habitat utilisation by feral cats by McGregor, Hugh W, Legge, Sarah, Jones, Menna E, Johnson, Christopher N

“…Intensification of fires and grazing by large herbivores has caused population declines in small vertebrates in many ecosystems worldwide. Impacts are rarely…”
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Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife: a critical perspective by Tompkins, Daniel M, Carver, Scott, Jones, Menna E, Krkošek, Martin, Skerratt, Lee F

“…Highlights • We critically review the evidence for current vertebrate wildlife disease emergence. • Sufficient data on prior absence or difference are lacking…”
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Applying an animal-centric approach to improve ecological restoration by Jones, Menna E., Davidson, Neil

“…Traditionally, ecological restoration is based on re‐establishing patterns of vegetation communities with the expectation that wildlife will recolonize,…”
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A native apex predator limits an invasive mesopredator and protects native prey: Tasmanian devils protecting bandicoots from cats by Cunningham, Calum X., Johnson, Christopher N., Jones, Menna E., Ostfeld, Richard

“…Apex predators can limit the abundance and behaviour of mesopredators, thereby reducing predation on smaller species. We know less about whether native apex…”
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Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats by McGregor, Hugh W., Legge, Sarah, Jones, Menna E., Johnson, Christopher N.

“…Feral cats are normally territorial in Australia’s tropical savannahs and hunt intensively with home-ranges only two to three kilometres across. Here we report…”
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Activity and social interactions in a wide-ranging specialist scavenger, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), revealed by animal-borne video collars by Andersen, Georgina E, McGregor, Hugh W, Johnson, Christopher N, Jones, Menna E

“…Observing animals directly in the field provides the most accurate understanding of animal behaviour and resource selection. However, making prolonged…”
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Top predator restricts the niche breadth of prey: effects of assisted colonization of Tasmanian devils on a widespread omnivorous prey by Scoleri, Vincent P, Ingram, Janeane, Johnson, Christopher N, Jones, Menna E

“…Few landscape-scale experiments test the effects of predators on the abundance and distribution of prey across habitat gradients. We use the assisted…”
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Top carnivore decline has cascading effects on scavengers and carrion persistence by Cunningham, Calum X., Johnson, Christopher N., Barmuta, Leon A., Hollings, Tracey, Woehler, Eric J., Jones, Menna E.

“…Top carnivores have suffered widespread global declines, with well-documented effects on mesopredators and herbivores. We know less about how carnivores affect…”
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Limited top–down effects of feral cats on rodent dynamics in a seabird colony by Scomparin, Cyril, Geale, Caitlan, Johnson, Christopher N., Jones, Menna E.

“…Control of invasive predators is a priority to protect island biodiversity. Understanding the responses of other species in multi-species invaded food webs is…”
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Dietary partitioning of Australia's two marsupial hypercarnivores, the Tasmanian devil and the spotted-tailed quoll, across their shared distributional range by Andersen, Georgina E, Johnson, Christopher N, Barmuta, Leon A, Jones, Menna E

“…Australia's native marsupial fauna has just two primarily flesh-eating 'hypercarnivores', the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and the spotted-tailed…”
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Habitat amount and quality, not patch size, determine persistence of a woodland-dependent mammal in an agricultural landscape by Gardiner, Riana, Bain, Glen, Hamer, Rowena, Jones, Menna E., Johnson, Christopher N.

“…Context The classical theory of island biogeography explains loss of species in fragmented landscapes as an effect of remnant patch size and isolation…”
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Biologically meaningful scents: a framework for understanding predator–prey research across disciplines by Parsons, Michael H., Apfelbach, Raimund, Banks, Peter B., Cameron, Elissa Z., Dickman, Chris R., Frank, Anke S. K., Jones, Menna E., McGregor, Ian S., McLean, Stuart, Müller‐Schwarze, Dietland, Sparrow, Elisa E., Blumstein, Daniel T.

“…ABSTRACT Fear of predation is a universal motivator. Because predators hunt using stealth and surprise, there is a widespread ability among prey to assess risk…”
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Dominant carnivore loss benefits native avian and invasive mammalian scavengers by Fielding, Matthew W, Cunningham, Calum X, Buettel, Jessie C, Stojanovic, Dejan, Yates, Luke A, Jones, Menna E, Brook, Barry W

“…Scavenging by large carnivores is integral for ecosystem functioning by limiting the build-up of carrion and facilitating widespread energy flows. However, top…”
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Devil declines and catastrophic cascades: is mesopredator release of feral cats inhibiting recovery of the eastern quoll? by Fancourt, Bronwyn A, Hawkins, Clare E, Cameron, Elissa Z, Jones, Menna E, Nicol, Stewart C

“…The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) is a medium-sized Australian marsupial carnivore that has recently undergone a rapid and severe population decline over…”
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Density trends and demographic signals uncover the long-term impact of transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils by Lazenby, Billie T., Tobler, Mathias W., Brown, William E., Hawkins, Clare E., Hocking, Greg J., Hume, Fiona, Huxtable, Stewart, Iles, Philip, Jones, Menna E., Lawrence, Clare, Thalmann, Sam, Wise, Phil, Williams, Howel, Fox, Samantha, Pemberton, David

“…1. Monitoring the response of wild mammal populations to threatening processes is fundamental to effective conservation management. This is especially true for…”
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Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils by Epstein, Brendan, Jones, Menna, Hamede, Rodrigo, Hendricks, Sarah, McCallum, Hamish, Murchison, Elizabeth P., Schönfeld, Barbara, Wiench, Cody, Hohenlohe, Paul, Storfer, Andrew

“…Although cancer rarely acts as an infectious disease, a recently emerged transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) is virtually 100%…”
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Assessing the value of restoration plantings for wildlife in a temperate agricultural landscape by Kittipalawattanapol, Kawinwit, Jones, Menna E., Barmuta, Leon A., Bain, Glen

“…Habitat loss is a primary cause of population decline for 85% of species recognized as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature…”
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A triple threat: high population density, high foraging intensity and flexible habitat preferences explain high impact of feral cats on prey by Hamer, Rowena P, Gardiner, Riana Z, Proft, Kirstin M, Johnson, Christopher N, Jones, Menna E

“…Alien mammalian carnivores have contributed disproportionately to global loss of biodiversity. In Australia, predation by the feral cat and red fox is one of…”
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Reversible epigenetic down-regulation of MHC molecules by devil facial tumour disease illustrates immune escape by a contagious cancer by Siddle, Hannah V., Kreiss, Alexandre, Tovar, Cesar, Yuen, Chun Kit, Cheng, Yuanyuan, Belov, Katherine, Swift, Kate, Pearse, Anne-Maree, Hamede, Rodrigo, Jones, Menna E., Skjødt, Karsten, Woods, Gregory M., Kaufman, Jim

“…Contagious cancers that pass between individuals as an infectious cell line are highly unusual pathogens. Devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) is one such…”
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