More buck for less bang: reconciling competing wildlife management interests in agricultural food webs

• Published in: Food Webs
• Main Author: Allen, Benjamin L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier BV 2015
• Subjects: 1080 baiting; Canis lupus dingo; Macropus rufus; overgrazing; predator-prey relationships; trophic cascade; Freed; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3801/more-buck-for-less-bang-reconciling-competing-wildlife-management-interests-in-agricultural-food-webs; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2014.12.001

Mammalian top-predators can have positive, negative and negligible effects on economic, environmental and social values, which vary spatially and temporally. Harnessing ‘pros’ while mitigating ‘cons’ of top-predators remains a key management challenge, particularly outside reserves in agro-ecosystem...