No evidence for spatial variation in predation risk following restricted-area fox culling.
Jim-Lino KämmerleSarah NiekrenzIlse StorchPublished in: BMC ecology (2019)
Our results imply that the scale and intensity of predator control achieved by incentivized recreational hunting was ineffective at altering fox abundance patterns and associated predation risk. We thus find no evidence to support incentives for uncoordinated recreational red fox culling as a conservation measure.