Dingo Density Estimates and Movements in Equatorial Australia: Spatially Explicit Mark-Resight Models.

ABSTRACT: Australia is currently free of canine rabies. Spatio-ecological knowledge about dingoes in northern Australia is currently a gap that impedes the application of disease spread models and our understanding of the potential transmission of rabies, in the event of an incursion. We therefore conducted a one-year camera trap survey to monitor a dingo population in equatorial northern Australia. The population is contiguous with remote Indigenous communities containing free-roaming dogs, which potentially interact with dingoes. Based on the camera trap data, we derived dingo density and home range size estimates using maximum-likelihood, spatially explicit, mark-resight models, described dingo movements and evaluated spatial correlation and temporal overlap in activities between dingoes and comm

SUBMITTER: Gabriele-Rivet V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7278439 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature