RAiD 10.71613/57f0a024
NESP RL Project 3.11 - Predators in priority places

Dates

Start Date
07-May-2025
End Date
30-Jun-2027

Titles

Title
NESP RL Project 3.11 - Predators in priority places
Title Type
Primary
Title Type:
Primary
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Start Date
07-May-2025
End Date
30-Jun-2027
Language
English

Descriptions

Description

Project summary Following discussions with Commonwealth and Regional research users, this project will include 4 major components:

1 - Land managers from the Fitz-Stirling region in Western Australia require assistance to improve management of feral cats and red foxes. The region has experienced researchers and managers, and collaboration with hub researchers will result in analysis and interpretation of existing data to inform future management. However, despite impressive local efforts to understand the ecology of invasive predators in the region, research users have identified opportunities for Hub research to build on existing knowledge to further mitigate the impacts of cats and red foxes on wildlife. Hub researchers will work with local research users to collect new data on target animals and incorporate these into practical recommendations for best-practice management (including monitoring) of feral cats and red foxes in the Fitz-Stirling Priority Place. This project will engage with and complement other work using existing cat-management data collected in the Fitz-Stirlings, and has been codesigned with end-users (WA DBCA and Bush Heritage).

2 - The Commonwealth Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) and Saving Native Species (SNS) programs are exposed to significant risk from uncertainty related to the variable quality of feral cat and red fox monitoring program designs and the metrics they produce. This exemplifies an ongoing barrier to advancing feral cat and red fox management; ‘how do we monitor these species effectively?’ (this is a key issue in both the cat and fox threat abatement plans). This project will support NHT & SNS Service Providers and inform future management of the NHT program by investigating the statistical power of approved monitoring programs (Research questions: Can they detect what they want to detect; what is best practice monitoring of cats and foxes; how does this compare to what is currently being implemented at these sites; and is best practice monitoring cost effective?) and by operating three demonstration sites (Fitz-Stirlings, Kangaroo Island, Booderee NP) where ‘best practice’ monitoring will be implemented alongside existing monitoring programs, to contextualise typical monitoring outcomes (Research question: ‘What do monitoring metrics mean?’). Guidance and training material on best practice monitoring and analysis will be a key output, alongside a shiny app that facilitates easy analysis of camera trap data using occupancy models.

3 - Land managers on Kangaroo Island seek assistance in improving feral cat management in relation to leaky fences and understanding movements at low densities. An existing safe haven on Kangaroo Island is challenged with a leaky fence, providing the opportunity for Hub researchers to test the efficacy of sound-producing devices in keeping cats from breaching the fence. GPS telemetry will also improve our understanding of how cats traverse the landscape at low densities, which will assist with targeting management actions in these situations.

4 - Synthesise our understanding of predator-prey interactions using the comprehensive datasets obtained from NESP projects in the Fitz-Stirlings, Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Kangaroo Island and Booderee National Park, as well as the information collected in sub-project 2. These sites have had extensive camera trapping occurring therein, which will yield information on presence and absence, that can be used in a multi-species occupancy modelling framework to determine the drivers of mesopredator interactions. This will provide evidence as to whether these interactions are driven by top-down or bottom-up factors.

Description Type

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Language
English

Contributors

Contributor
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5574-1653
Leader
Yes
Contact
Yes
Positions
Position
Principal or Chief Investigator
Position:
Principal or Chief Investigator
 Principal investigator refers to the person(s) in charge of a research project
Start Date
07-May-2025
End Date
30-Jun-2027
Roles
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Organisations

Organisation ID
https://ror.org/01kj2bm70
Roles
Role
Lead Research Organisation
Role:
Lead Research Organisation
 The research organistion administratively responsible for the project; administering organisation
Start Date
2025-05-07
End Date
2027-06-30

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Title
Resilient Landscapes Hub (10.71821/ffc970c8)
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Access

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Open Access
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Open Access
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