By Professor Mike Ivan Letnic

Book Chapters

Smith B; Waudby H; Dickman C; Soennichsoen K; Mills C; Howe A; Woolley LA; Griffiths S; Cox T; Clayton J; Penton C; Morrant D; Letnic M; Cullen D; Stobo-Wilson A; Taggart D; Gleeson D; Cripps J; Gill M; MacDonald A, 2022, 'Observing wildlife and its signs', in Smith B; Waudby H; Alberthsen C; Hampton J (ed.), Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods, CSIRO, Melbourne, pp. 45 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486313457

Glen A; Dickman C; Letnic MI, 2014, 'Carnivore communities: challenges and opportunities for conservation.', in Glen A; Dickman C (ed.), Carnivores of Australia : Past, Present and Future, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 405 - 415, http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6708.htm

Johnson CN; Letnic M, 2014, 'Introducing a new top predator, the dingo', in Prins H; Gordon IR (ed.), Invasion Biology and Ecosystem Theory - Insights from a Continent in Transition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 414 - 428, http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/life-sciences/ecology-and-conservation/invasion-biology-and-ecological-theory-insights-continent-transformation

Letnic MI; Ritchie E; Letnic M; Dickman CR; Vanak A, 2013, 'Dogs as predators and trophic regulators', in Gompper M (ed.), Free-Ranging Dogs and Wildlife Conservation, Oxford University Press, pp. 55 - 68

Letnic M; Fillios M; Crowther M, 2013, 'The arrival and impact of the dingo', in Glen AS; Dickman AR (ed.), Carnivores of Australia, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia

Letnic M, 2012, 'Us and them correspondence', in Tingle L (ed.), Quarterly Essay - Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation, Black Inc., Victoria, Australia, pp. 79 - 81

Letnic MI; Dickman C, 2010, 'Reptiles, amphibians and fish: going with the flow.', in Robin L; Dickman C (ed.), Desert Channels: The impulse to conserve, CSIRO, Melbourne, pp. 192 - 209

Letnic MI, 2010, 'The pituri country stories', in Robin L; Dickman C (ed.), Desert Channels: The impulse to conserve, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne

Dickman CR; Glen AS; Letnic M, 2009, 'Reintroducing the Dingo: Can Australia's Conservation Wastelands be Restored?', in Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators, pp. 238 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444312034.ch11

Nichols T; Letnic MI, 2008, 'Problem crocodiles: Reducing the risk of attacks by Crocodylus porosus in Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia', in Mitchell JC; Jung Brown RE; Bartholomew B (ed.), Urban Herpetology. Herpetological Conservation 3, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Salt lake City, pp. 509 - 517

Letnic MI, 2007, 'The pastoral industry: history and impact on arid zone fauna.', in Lunney D; Dickman C; Burgin S (ed.), Animals of arid Australia: out on their own?, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Sydney, pp. 65 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/FS.2007.041

Journal articles

Xu T; Cornwell WK; Wang L; Wijas B; Liu C; Yuan Z; Letnic M, 2024, 'Impacts of wild herbivores on soil seed banks are explained by precipitation conditions in protected areas across semi-arid to arid regions', Journal of Applied Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14803

McLean D; Goldingay R; Letnic M, 2024, 'Experimenting with artificial shelters to assist habitat restoration for medium-sized ground-dwelling mammals', Restoration Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.14300

Parker D; Cameron M; Gordon C; Letnic M, 2024, 'Habitat structure and an introduced predator limit the abundance of an endangered ground-nesting bird', Ecological Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.3046

Archer M; Letnic M; Murray B; Webb J, 2024, 'After the Megafires: Effects of Fire Severity on Reptile Species Richness and Occupancy in South-Eastern Australia', Fire, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire7100349

Moseby KE; Blumstein DT; Letnic M; Trenwith B; Van der Weyde LK, 2024, 'In situ predator exposure creates some persistent anti-predator behaviours: insights from a common environment experiment', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-024-03491-2

Andrade P; Alves JM; Pereira P; Rubin CJ; Silva E; Sprehn CG; Enbody E; Afonso S; Faria R; Zhang Y; Bonino N; Duckworth JA; Garreau H; Letnic M; Strive T; Thulin CG; Queney G; Villafuerte R; Jiggins FM; Ferrand N; Andersson L; Carneiro M, 2024, 'Selection against domestication alleles in introduced rabbit populations', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8, pp. 1543 - 1555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02443-3

Wijas B; Letnic M; Cornwell W, 2024, 'Spatial variability in the contribution of termites to the decay of plant detritus', Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13555

Skeptovitch B; Van Der Veyde L; Finlayson G; Blumstein D; Letnic M; Moseby K, 2024, 'Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey', Animal Behaviour, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.05.012

Hewitt SC; Leggett K; Letnic M, 2024, 'The role of shade in influencing dung deposition and nutrient transfer by kangaroos (Macropus spp.) in an arid landscape', Journal of Arid Environments, 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105168

Letnic M; Dempster T; Jessop T; Webb J, 2024, 'Imperfect adaptation by freshwater crocodiles to the invasion of a toxic prey species', Biological Invasions, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03273-x

Walker BJJ; Letnic M; Bucknall MP; Watson L; Jordan NR, 2024, 'Male dingo urinary scents code for age class and wild dingoes respond to this information', Chemical Senses, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae004

Letnic M; Roberts B; Hodgson M; Ross A; Cuartas S; Lapwong Y; Price O; Sentinella N; Webb J, 2023, 'Fire severity influences the post-fire habitat structure and abundance of a cool climate lizard', Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere, 48, pp. 1440 - 1453, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13410

Wijas BJ; Finlayson G; Letnic M, 2023, 'Herbivores’ Impacts Cascade Through the Brown Food Web in a Dryland', Ecosystems, 26, pp. 969 - 982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00810-4

McLean D; Goldingay R; Letnic M, 2023, 'Diet of the Dingo in Subtropical Australian Forests: Are Small, Threatened Macropods at Risk?', Animals, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13142257

Cairns K; Crowther M; Parker H; Ostrander E; Letnic M, 2023, 'Genome-wide variant analyses reveal new patterns of admixture and population structure in Australian dingoes', Molecular Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16998

Wijas BJ; Cornwell WK; Letnic M, 2023, 'Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems', Ecology, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4035

Xu T; Xu M; Zhang M; Letnic M; Wang J; Wang L, 2023, 'Spatial effects of nitrogen deposition on soil organic carbon stocks in patchy degraded saline-alkaline grassland', Geoderma, 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116408

Sheldon E; Feit B; Feit A; Letnic M, 2023, 'Negative frequency dependent prey selection by two canid predators and its implications for conservation of a threatened rodent in arid Australia', Biodiversity and Conservation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02570-6

Moseby K; Van der Weyde L; Letnic M; Blumstein DT; West R; Bannister H, 2023, 'Addressing prey naivety in native mammals by accelerating selection for antipredator traits', Ecological Applications, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2780

Letnic M; Donfrancescoo ; Allen ; Appleby ; Behrendorff ; Conroy ; Crowther ; Dickman ; Doherty ; Fancourt ; Gordon ; Jackson ; Johnson ; Kennedy ; Koungoulos ; Leung ; Mitchell ; Nesbitt ; Newsome ; Pacioni ; Phillip ; Purcell ; Ritchie ; Smith ; Stephens ; Tatler ; van Eden ; Cairns K, 2023, 'Understanding conflict among experts working oncontroversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo', Conservation Science and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12900

Webb JK; Jolly CJ; Hinds M; Adams C; Cuartas-Villa S; Lapwong Y; Letnic M, 2023, 'Effects of the Australian 2019–2020 megafires on a population of endangered broad-headed snakes Hoplocephalus bungaroides', Austral Ecology, 48, pp. 24 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13118

Price OF; Mikac K; Wilson N; Roberts B; Critescu RH; Gallagher R; Mallee J; Donatiou P; Webb J; Keith DA; Letnic M; Mackenzie BDE, 2023, 'Short-term impacts of the 2019–20 fire season on biodiversity in eastern Australia', Austral Ecology, 48, pp. 3 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13247

Van der Weyde LK; Blumstein DT; Letnic M; Tuft K; Ryan-Schofield N; Moseby KE, 2023, 'Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?', Behavioral Ecology, 34, pp. 63 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac097

Alves JM; Carneiro M; Day JP; Welch JJ; Duckworth JA; Cox TE; Letnic M; Strive T; Ferrand N; Jiggins FM, 2022, 'A single introduction of wild rabbits triggered the biological invasion of Australia', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122734119

Brun M; Oliver AS; Alves J; Nankivell A; Letnic M, 2022, 'Irrupting prey populations in the absence of a mammalian apex predator drive shifts in prey selection by eagles', Science of Nature, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-022-01804-x

Letnic M; Hunter DO, 2022, 'Dingoes have greater suppressive effect on fox populations than poisoning campaigns', Australian Mammalogy, 44, pp. 387 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AM21036

McHugh D; Goldingay RL; Letnic M, 2022, 'Occupancy and co-occurrence patterns of endemic mammals and introduced predators across a broad geographical gradient in eastern Australia', Biodiversity and Conservation, 31, pp. 989 - 1021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02374-0

Lee JS; Letnic M; Mills CH, 2021, 'Diet and occurrences of the letter-winged kite in a predation refuge', Science of Nature, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01772-8

Wijas B; Letnic M, 2021, 'Top-down effects have primacy over bottom-up effects on the population dynamics of a flightless desert bird', Journal of Arid Environments, 195, pp. 104611, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104611

Ross A; Lawes J; Letnic M, 2021, 'The impact of headstarting on the survival and naiveté of an endangered terrestrial mammal after return to the wild', Animal Conservation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12745

Bannister HL; Letnic M; Blumstein DT; Moseby KE, 2021, 'Individual traits influence survival of a reintroduced marsupial only at low predator densities', Animal Conservation, 24, pp. 904 - 913, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12690

Ross AK; Lawes JC; Elphinstone A; Stutsel S; Letnic M, 2021, 'Headstarting as a cost-effective conservation strategy for an endangered mammal', Current Biology, 31, pp. R465 - R466, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.017

Ross A; Lawes J; Elphinstone A; Stutsel S; Letnic M, 2021, 'Headstarting as a cost-effective conservation strategy for an endangered mammal', Current Biology, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.017

Braden J; Mills C; Cornwell W; Waudby H; Letnic M, 2021, 'Impacts of grazing by kangaroos and rabbits on vegetation and soils in a semi-arid conservation reserve', Journal of Arid Environments, 190, pp. 104526, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104526

Edwards C; Cornwell W; Letnic M, 2021, 'Frequent consumption of sap suggests that omnivory is widespread among Australian geckos', Science of Nature, 108, pp. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01720-6

Cairns K; Newman K; Crowther M; Letnic M, 2021, 'Pelage variation in dingoes across southeastern Australia: implications for conservation and management', Journal of Zoology

Fisher A; Mills C; Lyons M; Cornwell W; Letnic M, 2021, 'Remote sensing of trophic cascades: multi-temporal landsat imagery reveals vegetation change driven by the removal of an apex predator', Landscape Ecology, 36, pp. 1341 - 1358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01206-w

Chu N; Cornwell W; Letnic M, 2021, 'Mistletoes Facilitate a Desert Herbivore by Improving the Quality of Shade', Ecosystems, 24, pp. 1393 - 1401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00590-9

Ross AK; Lawes JC; Lowry JA; Letnic M, 2021, 'DIY radio-collar attachment for small macropods', Australian Mammalogy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AM20068

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