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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Invasive Predator Management Can Mitigate the Impacts of Fire and Low Rainfall for Some Herpetofauna.

Kristina J Macdonald, Bronwyn A Hradsky, Tim S Doherty, Don A Driscoll

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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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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kristina J MacdonaldSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Melbourne Victoria Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0357-1231
Bronwyn A HradskySchool of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0141-020X
Tim S DohertySchool of Life and Environmental Sciences The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7745-0251
Don A DriscollSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Melbourne Victoria Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-5235

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective wildlife conservation relies on understanding how threats and associated management actions can interact to affect biodiversity. However, the impacts of concurrent disturbances on wildlife can be complex and difficult to predict. Altered fire regimes, invasive predators, and reduced rainfall are major threats to herpetofauna, but no research has investigated their interactive effects on any reptile or amphibian species to date. We undertook a natural experiment employing a control-impact design in southern Australia to examine the combined and independent effects of prescribed fire, invasive red fox (

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amphibiandroughtlethal baitingplanned burnreptilethreat interaction

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PMID41459103
PMCPMC12742462

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