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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Exotic Megaherbivores as Ecosystem Engineers in Australian Savannas: Do They Facilitate Predator Movement?

Georgina Neave, Brett P Murphy, Tiwi Rangers, Hugh F Davies

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Georgina NeaveResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6173-0881
Brett P MurphyResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia.
Tiwi RangersTiwi Resources Pty Ltd Casuarina Northern Territory Australia.
Hugh F DaviesResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Casuarina Northern Territory Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An understanding of how terrestrial mammalian predators use their environment is critical for the development of effective management and monitoring. Mammalian predators often use anthropogenic linear features-such as roads, fencelines, and infrastructure corridors-to increase movement efficiency and prey encounter rates. However, there has been little investigation into how predators use more subtle linear features such as game trails (i.e., well-trodden paths created by megaherbivores). This is despite native and exotic megaherbivores being abundant across many of Earth's most intact landscapes and conservation areas. We investigated how the two largest terrestrial mammalian predators in northern Australian savannas-the dingo (

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dingo (Canis familiaris)feral cat (Felis catus)game trailsmegaherbivorespredator movement

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PMID40635792
PMCPMC12240593

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