Ben Stepkovitch
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Carnivore resource subsidies to support predator reintroductions and mitigate threats to reintroduced prey Open
The potential risk to threatened prey species is a real or perceived barrier to reintroducing carnivores to fenced or island conservation reserves. Supplementary feeding of reintroduced carnivores is a tool that may increase translocation …
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey Open
Prey animals may lack appropriate predator avoidance behaviours to novel predators, which has contributed to the decline of many species worldwide following human introduction of novel predators. Excluding novel predators from conservation…
From threatened to threatening: Impacts of a reintroduced predator on reintroduced prey Open
Despite the recent global increase in projects utilizing conservation fencing, reintroductions of predators to fenced conservation reserves are rare. Reintroducing threatened predators into closed ecosystems raises potential issues of over…
A comprehensive review of mammalian carnivore translocations Open
Carnivore conservation translocations are assumed to provide numerous ecological benefits, including conservation of the translocated carnivores, regulation of prey species and restoration of ecosystems. Reviews of mammalian carnivore cons…
What the fox? Cryptic Eucoleus [Capillaria] sp. in the respiratory tract of a cat from Australia Open
Eucoleus aerophilus (syn. Capillaria aerophila) is a zoonotic trichuroid nematode parasite of dogs, cats and wild carnivores with a global distribution. The main reservoir species in Europe is the red fox, where it has been detected in up …