Cats, foxes and fire: Quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire

TS Doherty, DJ Watchorn, V Miritis, AJL Pestell… - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Predators and fire shape ecosystems across the globe and these two forces
can interact to impact prey populations. This issue is particularly pertinent in Australia where …

Enumerating a continental-scale threat: how many feral cats are in Australia?

S Legge, BP Murphy, H McGregor, JCZ Woinarski… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Feral cats (Felis catus) have devastated wildlife globally. In Australia, feral cats are
implicated in most recent mammal extinctions and continue to threaten native species. Cat …

[HTML][HTML] Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video

H McGregor, S Legge, ME Jones, CN Johnson - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
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 small predators …

Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia's tropical savannas

L Leahy, SM Legge, K Tuft, HW McGregor… - Wildlife …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Changes in abundance following fire are commonly reported for vertebrate species,
but the mechanisms causing these changes are rarely tested. Currently, many species of …

Catastrophic cat predation: a call for predator profiling in wildlife protection programs

KE Moseby, DE Peacock, JL Read - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduced predators have been implicated in the decline of many fauna populations around
the world and are the main factor responsible for the failure of numerous fauna …

How do passive infrared triggered camera traps operate and why does it matter? Breaking down common misconceptions

DJ Welbourne, AW Claridge, DJ Paull… - Remote Sensing in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The use of passive infrared (PIR) triggered camera traps has dramatically increased in
recent decades. Unfortunately, technical descriptions of how PIR triggered camera traps …

[HTML][HTML] Risks and benefits of collar use in cats (Felis catus); a literature review

C Arhant, V Heizmann, G Schauberger… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are multiple reasons for cats to wear collars, among the most relevant are
identification and mounting of radiofrequency tracking devices or predation deterrents …

Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats

HW McGregor, S Legge, ME Jones, CN Johnson - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
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 that they also undertake …

Interactions among threats affect conservation management outcomes: Livestock grazing removes the benefits of fire management for small mammals in Australian …

S Legge, JG Smith, A James, KD Tuft… - … Science and Practice, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation scientists and practitioners usually focus on understanding and managing
individual threats to biodiversity. However, threats may interact, making management …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating density for species conservation: Comparing camera trap spatial count models to genetic spatial capture-recapture models

JM Burgar, FEC Stewart, JP Volpe, JT Fisher… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Density estimation is integral to the effective conservation and management of wildlife.
Camera traps in conjunction with spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models have been used …