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Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The importance of predators

2 The rise and fall of large marsupial carnivores

3 Giant terrestrial reptilian carnivores of Cenozoic Australia

4 The arrival and impacts of the dingo

5 The new guard: the arrival and impacts of cats and foxes

6 Management of wild canids in Australia: free-ranging dogs and red foxes

7 When is a dingo not a dingo? Hybridisation with domestic dogs

8 Measuring and managing the impacts of cats

9 Australia’s surviving marsupial carnivores: threats and conservation

10 Micro-carnivores: the ecological role of small dasyurid predators in Australia

11 Reptilian predators: the forgotten majority?

12 Fur, feathers and scales: interactions between mammalian, reptilian and avianpredators

13 Strongly interactive carnivore species: maintaining and restoringecosystem function

14 Protecting livestock while conserving ecosystem function: non-lethalmanagement of wild predators

15 The role of predator exclosures in the conservation of Australian fauna

16 Concerns over management intensity: a framework for threatened speciesand predator management

17 Olfaction and predator–prey interactions amongst mammals in Australia

18 Carnivore communities: challenges and opportunities for conservation

Index