caa a22 4500 467885362 CHVBK 20180406152732.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10021-004-0173-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10021-004-0173-0 Do Exotic Vertebrates Structure the Biota of Australia? An Experimental Test in New South Wales [Elektronische Daten] [C. Davey, A. Sinclair, R. Pech, A. Arthur, C. Krebs, A. Newsome, D. Hik, R. Molsher, K. Allcock] From 1993 to 2001, we conducted a series of experiments in a mixed grassland-woodland system in central New South Wales (NSW) to quantify the interactions between red foxes and their prey and competitors. Foxes were removed from two areas around the perimeter of Lake Burrendong, and data were collected from these areas and a nearby untreated area before, during, and after the period of fox control. The arrival of rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD) in 1996 provided an opportunity to examine the interactive effects of controlling foxes and rabbits. In this landscape, typical of central NSW, (a) the fox population was not affected by a large reduction in the abundance of rabbits, or vice versa; (b) the cat population declined in areas where foxes were removed after the large RHD-induced reduction in rabbit numbers, but there was no consistent response to the removal of foxes; (c) the abundance of some macropod species increased in response only to the combined removal of rabbits and foxes; (d) there were no consistent changes in the abundances of bird species in response to the removal of either foxes or rabbits, but there were clear habitat differences in bird species richness; and (e) there was likely to be an increase in woody plant species after the large reduction in rabbit populations by RHD. We conclude that (a) long-term field experiments (more than 3 years) are required to quantify the indirect consequences of controlling foxes and rabbits, and (b) single manipulations, such as fox control or rabbit control, are not necessarily sufficient for the conservation of remnant woodland communities in southeastern Australia. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 community structure nationallicence predator-prey interactions nationallicence predator-prey manipulation nationallicence functional response nationallicence fox removal nationallicence rabbit hemorrhagic disease nationallicence Australia nationallicence Davey C. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut Sinclair A. Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, Canada aut Pech R. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut Arthur A. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut Krebs C. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut Newsome A. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut Hik D. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, T6G 2E9, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut Molsher R. Department of Environment and Conservation-New South Wales, P.O. Box 2111, 2830, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia aut Allcock K. Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences, MS 370, University of Nevada-Reno, 89557, Reno, Nevada, USA aut Ecosystems Springer-Verlag; www.springer-ny.com 9/6(2006-09-01), 992-1008 1432-9840 9:6<992 2006 9 10021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-004-0173-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-004-0173-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Davey C. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sinclair A. Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pech R. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Arthur A. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krebs C. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Newsome A. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Pest Animal Control CRC, G.P.O. Box 284, 2601, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hik D. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, T6G 2E9, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Molsher R. Department of Environment and Conservation-New South Wales, P.O. Box 2111, 2830, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Allcock K. Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences, MS 370, University of Nevada-Reno, 89557, Reno, Nevada, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecosystems Springer-Verlag; www.springer-ny.com 9/6(2006-09-01), 992-1008 1432-9840 9:6<992 2006 9 10021 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer