Wildlife Research

Article	Citations
An overview of the history, current contributions and future outlook of iNaturalist in Australia	79
Flooding-induced mortality of loggerhead sea turtle eggs	21
Effectiveness and costs of helicopter-based shooting of deer	21
Ontogenetic changes in energy expenditure and resting behaviour of humpback whale mother–calf pairs examined using unmanned aerial vehicles	18
Seed dispersal by Neotropical bats in human-disturbed landscapes	16
Animal welfare outcomes of helicopter-based shooting of deer in Australia	14
Bayesian modelling reveals differences in long-term trends in the harvest of native and introduced species by recreational hunters in Australia	14
Reptiles as food: predation of Australian reptiles by introduced red foxes compounds and complements predation by cats	13
Density and activity patterns of Pallas’s cats, Otocolobus manul, in central Mongolia	13
Red deer allocate vigilance differently in response to spatio-temporal patterns of risk from human hunters and wolves	13
Seasonal and daily activity of non-native sambar deer in and around high-elevation peatlands, south-eastern Australia	12
Behavioural and physiological responses of captive Antillean manatees to small aerial drones	12
Drone thermal imaging technology provides a cost-effective tool for landscape-scale monitoring of a cryptic forest-dwelling species across all population densities	12
Lost at sea: determining geographic origins of illegally traded green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) rescued on Hainan Island, China	12
Fine-scale vertical habitat use of white sharks at an emerging aggregation site and implications for public safety	12
Cost-effectiveness of volunteer and contract ground-based shooting of sambar deer in Australia	11
Animal welfare outcomes of professional vehicle-based shooting of peri-urban rusa deer in Australia	11
Accuracies and biases of ageing white-tailed deer in semiarid environments	11
Cats are a key threatening factor to the survival of local populations of native small mammals in Australia’s tropical savannas: evidence from translocation trials with	11
Animal welfare testing for shooting and darting free-ranging wildlife: a review and recommendations	11
Radio-tracking wildlife with drones: a viewshed analysis quantifying survey coverage across diverse landscapes	11
A comparison of lead-based and lead-free bullets for shooting sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in Australia	10
Harvesting predators: simulation of population recovery and controlled harvest of saltwater crocodiles Crocodylus porosus	9
Foreword to the Special Issue on ‘The rapidly expanding role of drones as a tool for wildlife research’	9
Koala tree selection in a mixed-tenure landscape and post-fire implications	9

Minimising mortalities in capturing wildlife: refinement of helicopter darting of chital deer (	9
Post-release immune responses of Tasmanian devils vaccinated with an experimental devil facial tumour disease vaccine	8
Comparison of three methods of estimating the population size of an arboreal mammal in a fragmented rural landscape	8
Evaluation of the use of drones to monitor a diverse crocodylian assemblage in West Africa	8
Can flexible timing of harvest for translocation reduce the impact on fluctuating source populations?	8
How much survey effort is required to assess bird assemblages in fire-prone eucalypt forests using acoustic recorders?	8
Double-observer distance sampling improves the accuracy of density estimates for a threatened arboreal mammal	8
Lowland tapir exposure to pesticides and metals in the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Defining separation zones for coastal birds at a wetland of global importance	8
Differing effects of productivity on home-range size and population density of a native and an invasive mammalian carnivore	8
Sign surveys can be more efficient and cost effective than driven transects and camera trapping: a comparison of detection methods for a small elusive mammal, the numbat (	7
Tree hollow densities reduced by frequent late dry-season wildfires in threatened Gouldian finch (	7
Increasing fire severity negatively affects greater glider density	7
Effects of environmental factors on the detection of subsurface green turtles in aerial drone surveys	7
Experimentally testing the response of feral cats and their prey to poison baiting	7
Delineating genetic management units of sambar deer (	7
Vegetation cover and configuration drive reptile species distributions in a fragmented landscape	6
Post-nesting movements and feeding ground distribution by the hawksbill turtle (	6
Snow track counts for density estimation of mammalian predators in the boreal forest	6
Predator-free short-hydroperiod wetlands enhance metamorph output in a threatened amphibian: insights into frog breeding behaviour evolution and conservation management	6
Comparing unmanned aerial systems with conventional methodology for surveying a wild white-tailed deer population	6
Developing a correction factor to apply to animal–vehicle collision data for improved road mitigation measures	6
New evidence of seed dispersal identified in Australian mammals	6
Seasonal habitat suitability models for a threatened species: the Gunnison sage-grouse	6
Plasticity in daily activity patterns of a key prey species in the Iberian Peninsula to reduce predation risk	6
Predicting spatial and seasonal patterns of wildlife–vehicle collisions in high-risk areas	6
Damage to silo bags by mammals in agroecosystems: a contribution for mitigating human–wildlife conflicts	6
Improved house mouse control in the field with a higher dose zinc phosphide bait	6
Invasive axis deer and wild boar in a protected area in Argentina, controlled hunting, and Taylor’s law	6
Goat movement patterns inform management of feral goat populations in semiarid rangelands	6
Mammal responses to moderate-intensity planned burning in a small, isolated woodland reserve	6
Acoustic localisation of wildlife with low-cost equipment: lower sensitivity, but no loss of precision	6
Lethal control of eutherian predators via aerial baiting does not negatively affect female spotted-tailed quolls (Dasyurus maculatus maculatus) and their pouch young	5
Behaviour of a large ungulate reflects temporal patterns of predation risk	5
Conservation issues using discordant taxonomic and evolutionary units: a case study of the American manatee (	5
Tree use by koalas after timber harvesting in a mosaic landscape	5
The assemblage of birds struck by aircraft differs among nearby airports in the same bioregion	5
Adaptive monitoring: using citizen scientists to track wolf populations when winter-track counts become unreliable	5
Insights and inferences on koala conservation from records of koalas arriving to care in South East Queensland	5
Comparisons of morphometrics and body condition between two breeding populations of Australian humpback whales	5
Evaluation of helicopter net-gunning to capture wild fallow deer (	5
Cost-effectiveness of thermal imaging for monitoring a cryptic arboreal mammal	5
A comparison of manual and automated detection of rusa deer (	5
Scars of human–elephant conflict: patterns inferred from field observations of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka	5
Carcass use by mesoscavengers drives seasonal shifts in Australian alpine scavenging dynamics	5
Learned avoidance of trap locations in freshwater turtles	4
Varying degrees of spatio-temporal partitioning among large carnivores in a fenced reserve, South Africa	4
Rocky escarpment versus savanna woodlands: comparing diet and body condition as indicators of habitat quality for the endangered northern quoll (	4
Fox and cat responses to fox baiting intensity, rainfall and prey abundance in the Upper Warren, Western Australia	4
Characterising a unique recreational hunting method: hound hunting of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in Victoria, Australia	4

The influence of camera-trap flash type on the behavioural response, detection rate and individual recognition of Eld’s deer	4
Fifty-year review: European rabbit fleas,	4
Historical record shows broad habitat use and rapid decline of the greater bilby Macrotis lagotis in eastern Australia	4
The canid pest ejector challenge: controlling urban foxes while keeping domestic dogs safe	4
Factors influencing the success of hand-reared juvenile brushtail possums (	4
How quoll-ified are northern and spotted-tailed quoll detection dogs?	4
The effect of scent lures on detection is not equitable among sympatric species	4
Implications of habitat overlap between giant panda and sambar for sympatric multi-species conservation	4
Road orientation affects the impact of roads on wildlife	4
Estimating and validating koala	4
Estimating habitat characteristics associated with the abundance of free-roaming domestic cats across the annual cycle	4
Who’s afraid of the big, bad predator? Contrasting effects of apex predator presence on the behaviour of a mesopredator	4
A lesson for planning rodent eradications: interference of invasive slugs during the Gough Island mouse eradication attempt in 2021	4
Underlying beliefs linked to public opinion about gene drive and pest-specific toxin for pest control	4
Grizzly bear response to translocation into a novel environment	4
Can conditioned taste aversion be deployed at a landscape level to mitigate the impact of invasive cane toads on northern quolls?	4
Abundance, demography, and harvesting of water snakes from agricultural landscapes in West Java, Indonesia	4
Rodenticide baiting black rats (	4
Evaluating scat surveys as a tool for population and community assessments	3
Reliable detection of low-density Pacific rats by using camera trapping	3
Is regional variability in environmental conditions driving differences in the early body condition of endemic Australian fur seal pups?	3
Telemetry tails: a practical method for attaching animal-borne devices to small vertebrates in the field	3
The fungal rat race: mycophagy among rodent communities in eastern Australia	3
Application of tri-axial accelerometer data to the interpretation of movement and behaviour of threatened black cockatoos	3
Scat DNA as a non-invasive method for estimating the abundance of the vulnerable mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus)	3
It’s a trap: effective methods for monitoring house mouse populations in grain-growing regions of south-eastern Australia	3
The value of pastoral ranches for wildlife conservation in the Kalahari	3
The potential distribution of the yellow monitor, Varanus flavescens (Hardwick & Gray) under multiple climate, land cover and dispersal scenarios in Nepal	3
Developing Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) assays for rapid, presumptive DNA detection of an invasive reptile (Boa constrictor)	3
Eye in the sky: observing wild dingo hunting behaviour using drones	3
‘It’s a people problem, not a goat problem.’ Mitigating human–mountain goat interactions in a Canadian Provincial Park	3
Remote sensor camera traps provide the first density estimate for the largest natural population of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)	3
Movement and ranging behaviour of long-nosed potoroos (Potorous tridactylus) in south-west Victoria, Australia	3
Risk of predation and disease transmission at artificial water stations	3
Diet and impacts of non-native fallow deer (Dama dama) on pastoral properties during severe drought	3
Human influence on burrow activity of the Chinese pangolin in Nepal	3
Understanding the zoonotic pathogen, Coxiella burnetii in Australian fur seal breeding colonies through environmental DNA and genotyping	3
Repeated experimental removals unveil sex and age-specific dispersal strategies in a social passerine bird	3
Detections of house mice on Gough Island approach zero within days of aerial baiting	3
Irruptive dynamics of the brush-tailed bettong (	3
Diverse moth prey identified in the diet of the critically endangered southern bent-wing bat (Miniopterus orianae bassanii) using DNA metabarcoding of scats	3
Factors influencing the activity ranges of feral pigs (Sus scrofa) across four sites in eastern Australia	3
Genetic analysis reveals spatial structure in an expanding introduced rusa deer population	3
Impacts of ‘Curiosity’ baiting on feral cat populations in woodland habitats of Kangaroo Island, South Australia	3
Using expert elicitation to identify effective combinations of management actions for koala conservation in different regional landscapes	3
Short-term response of research activities on white shark behaviour	3
Catch me if you can: personality drives technique-specific biases during live-capture trapping	3
Comparison of morphological identification and DNA metabarcoding for dietary analysis of faeces from a subtropical lizard	3
Impacts of wild pigs on acorn availability as a food source for native wildlife	3
A review of viral and parasitic infections in wild deer in Australia with relevance to livestock and human health	3
Treatment with the immunocontraceptive vaccine, GonaCon, induces temporary fertility control in free-ranging prairie dog populations in Colorado, USA	3
Optimising deployment time of remote cameras to estimate abundance of female bighorn sheep	3
Factors influencing the adaptability and habitat use of rescued Malayan sun bears (	3
Patterns of livestock depredation by snow leopards and effects of intervention strategies: lessons from the Nepalese Himalaya	3
The dingo (Canis familiaris) as a secondary disperser of mycorrhizal fungal spores	2
Population dynamics of chital deer (Axis axis) in northern Queensland: effects of drought and culling	2
Origins and population genetics of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) introduced to Australia and New Zealand	2
Ground-based counting methods underestimate true numbers of a threatened colonial mammal: an evaluation using drone-based thermal surveys as a reference	2
No mammal recovery from feral cat experimental exclusion trials in Kakadu National Park	2
Implementing implants: delivery efficiency, contraceptive efficacy and population outcomes in two overabundant kangaroo populations	2
A novel modelling framework to explicitly simulate predator interaction with poison baits	2
Wildlife–Human Survey: a rapid appraisal tool to assess mammal diversity and human–wildlife interactions in rural settings	2
Habitat suitability correlates with mean population fitness of a threatened marsupial predator	2
Deltamethrin reduces survival of non-target small mammals	2
Bringing back the endangered bridled nail-tailed wallaby at Taunton National Park (Scientific) through effective predator control	2
Rabbit warrens: an important resource for invasive alien species in semi-arid Australia	2
Increasing the accuracy and efficiency of wildlife census with unmanned aerial vehicles: a simulation study	2
Are canid pest ejectors an effective control tool for wild dogs in an arid rangeland environment?	2
Age- and sex-dependent vigilance behaviour modifies social structure of hunted wild boar populations	2
Hybridisation rates, population structure, and dispersal of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) and rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) in south-eastern Australia	2
Options for shorebird-exclusion devices for pitfall traps on sandy shores	2
Determinants of attitudes towards wildlife in rural Taiwan and its implications for leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) conservation performance payment	2
Factors affecting bait uptake by the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and the future delivery of oral contraceptives	2
Evaluation of lion (Panthera leo) scat as a wild dog (Lycaon pictus) deterrent on game farms	2
Birds not in flight: using camera traps to observe ground use of birds at a wind-energy facility	2
Camera traps show foxes are the major predator of flatback turtle nests at the most important mainland western Australian rookery	2
Thermal imaging outshines spotlighting for detecting cryptic, nocturnal mammals in tropical rainforests	2
An 8-year long retrospective analysis identifies the major causes of morbidity and mortality in rescued koala joeys	2
Satellite and telecommunication alert system for foot-hold trapping	2
Activity and movement of small mammal tick hosts at the urban fringes of Sydney, Australia	2

Modelling the management of an invasive species at landscape scale: are oral contraceptives the missing ingredient for success?	2
Effects of helicopter net gunning on the survival and movement behaviour of nilgai antelope	2
Seasonal population dynamics and movement patterns of a critically endangered, cave-dwelling bat,	2
Lethal control reduces the relative abundance of dingoes but not cattle production impacts	2
Coastal dolphins and marine megafauna in Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia: informing conservation management actions in an area under increasing human pressure	2
Parameter affecting the I3S algorithm reliability: how does correcting for body curvature affect individual recognition?	2
Mammal use of undercrossings is influenced by openness and proximity to riparian corridors	2
Foreword to the Special Issue on ‘Fertility control for wildlife in the 21st century’	2
Combining acoustic localisation and high-resolution land cover classification to study predator vocalisation behaviour	2
Effectiveness of dogs for detecting feral cat scats in wheatbelt reserves of Western Australia	2
Nutritional stress and population density influence risk/reward decisions by elk	2
Ecology, impacts and management of wild deer in Australia	2
Learning from past designs: improving amphibian fences using an adaptive management approach	2
What factors affect species richness and distribution dynamics within two Afromontane protected areas?	2
Do we need to mine social media data to detect exotic vertebrate-pest introductions?	2
Rapid colonisation, breeding and successful recruitment of eastern barn owls (	2
Habitat, connectivity, and roadkill of Korea’s apex predator, the yellow-throated marten	2
Translocation is not a viable conflict-resolution tool for a large fossorial mammal, Lasiorhinus latifrons	2
Habitat structure facilitates coexistence of native and invasive mesopredators in an Australian tropical savanna	2
Chainsaw hollows carved into live trees provide well insulated supplementary shelters for wildlife during extreme heat	2
Domestic dogs and water-availability effects on non-volant mammals in a protected area, south-eastern Brazil	2
Line-transect versus point-transect sampling: the effects of survey area and survey effort on method efficiency for Geoffroy’s spider monkeys	2
Improving access to conservation detection dogs: identifying motivations and understanding satisfaction in volunteer handlers	2
Do high recapture rates indicate representative sampling? The relationship between recapture probability, risk-taking, and personality	1
Feral horse cause-specific mortality relative to mustering (gathering) and individual demographic attributes in the USA	1
Space use and daily movement patterns in an arid zone agamid lizard†	1
Factors affecting recent population decline and range contraction of the greater long-tailed hamster in China	1
Kinship analysis reveals low dispersal in a hog deer (Axis porcinus) population in Wilsons Promontory National Park, Australia	1
Citizen science and community action provide insights on a threatened species: nest box use by the brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)	1
Where there’s smoke, there’s cats: long-unburnt habitat is crucial to mitigating the impacts of cats on the Ngarlgumirdi, greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)	1
Livestock depredation by wild carnivores in the highlands of Wolaita zone, southern Ethiopia	1
Determining marine mammal detection functions for a stationary land-based survey site	1
Spatial ecology of invasive Bennett’s wallaby in South Island, New Zealand	1
Calling behaviour in the invasive Asian house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) and implications for early detection	1
Demographics, attitudes and emotions as predictors of support for bear management	1
Applying a versatile, comprehensive, attribute-based waterhole classification scheme to ecosystem-based management challenges	1
Capture predicates corticosterone responses and a low recapture likelihood in a varanid lizard	1
Winter denning behaviour of striped skunks and interspecific den activity at their dens: implications for pathogen transmission	1
Is the Felixer cat control device safe for marsupial carnivores?	1
Ten years of camera trapping for a cryptic and threatened arboreal mammal – a review of applications and limitations	1
Diet of fallow deer suggests potential for invasion of novel habitats in Tasmania	1
Seasonal nest use of sympatric North American flying squirrels	1
Spatial and temporal variation in the diet of introduced sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in an alpine landscape	1
Opportunistic datasets perform poorly in Ecological Niche Modelling: a case study from a polymorphic lizard	1
Predictively modelling the distribution of the threatened brush-tailed rock-wallaby (	1
A spatial genetic framework for koala translocations: where to?	1
Comparing acoustic survey data for European bats: do walked transects or automated fixed-point surveys provide more robust data?	1
Lion (Panthera leo) diet and cattle depredation on the Kuku Group Ranch Pastoralist area in southern Maasailand, Kenya	1
The impact of wild boars on the temporal resource utilisation of silver pheasants in South China	1
Immunocontraception of the female African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) in South Africa: from pipe dream to policy	1
Invasional meltdown-under? Toads facilitate cats by removing a naïve top predator	1
First evidence of avian predation of threatened freshwater mussels (	1
Controlling feral ruminants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a case study of buffalo in northern Australia	1
Feral cat GPS tracking and simulation models to improve the conservation management of night parrots	1
Novel acoustic lure methodology facilitates detection of the cryptic ghost bat at a landscape scale	1
Hot, wet and rare: modelling the occupancy dynamics of the narrowly distributed Dixie Valley toad	1
Apparent resistance to brodifacoum in	1
The relationships between land use and amphibian assemblages in a traditional agricultural area, the Sun Moon Lake, of Taiwan	1
Southern brown bandicoots,	1
Effects of sardines as an attractant on carnivore detection and temporal activity patterns at remote camera traps	1
Still a good dog! Long-term use and effectiveness of livestock guardian dogs to protect livestock from predators in Australia’s extensive grazing systems	1
Olfactory lures in predator control do not increase predation risk to birds in areas of conservation concern	1
Evaluation of oral baits and distribution methods for Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)†	1
High-quality habitats and refuges from tourism reduce individual stress responses in a forest specialist	1
Temporal effects of relative hunter activity on adult male white-tailed deer habitat use	1
High survivorship and rapid population growth of the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) reintroduced to a feral predator exclosure	1
Monitoring methods influence native predator detectability and inferred occupancy responses to introduced carnivore management	1
Remote sensing shows south-east Queensland koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) prefer areas of higher tree canopy height within their home ranges	1
Unique utilisation pattern responses of five sympatric ungulates to local phenological gradients	1
Evaluation of 8 years of fertility control (nicarbazin) to manage urban pigeon populations	1
Can non-invasive methods replace radiocollar-based winter counts in a 50-year wolf study? Lessons learned from a three-winter trial	1
Niche separation of three species of tree-rat (black-footed tree-rat, M. gouldii, golden-backed tree-rat, Mesembriomys macrurus, and brush-tailed rabbit-rat, Conilurus penicillatus) on the Mitchell Pl	1
The application of catch–effort models to estimate the efficacy of aerial shooting operations on sambar deer (Cervus unicolor)	1
Using lures for improving selectivity of bait intake by red foxes	1
Reduction in growth rates of wild horse populations treated with the controlled-release immunocontraceptive PZP-22 in the western United States	1
Exploring seasonal variation in the faecal glucocorticoid concentrations of African elephants (	1
Evaluating predator control using two non-invasive population metrics: a camera trap activity index and density estimation from scat genotyping	1
The demographics of knowledge, attitudes and emotions toward coyotes	1
Acoustic surveys improve landscape-scale detection of a critically endangered Australian bird, the plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus)	1
Regional variation in habitat matrix determines movement metrics in Baudin’s cockatoos in southwest Western Australia	1
A comparison of methods for monitoring a sparse population of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) subject to lethal control using GPS telemetry, camera traps and sand plots	1
Decline in semi-arid reptile occurrence following habitat loss and fragmentation	1
The distribution, habitat preference and population dynamics of the pale field-rat (	1
Set free: an evaluation of two break-away mechanisms for tracking collars	1
Forest bird abundance can vary with cross-scale interactions involving climate, exurban cover and forest patch size	1
Adult capture on the nest does not affect hatching success of masked lapwing (	1
Finding Ngabi (Hemiaspis damelii): factors affecting the use of modified floodplain wetlands by an endangered snake	1
Movement ecology of adult and juvenile spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) in a seasonally dynamic environment	1