title: Experiments in no-impact control of dingoes: comment on Allen et al. 2013.
abstract: There has been much recent debate in Australia over whether lethal control of dingoes incurs environmental costs, particularly by allowing increase of populations of mesopredators such as red foxes and feral cats. Allen et al. (2013) claim to show in their recent study that suppression of dingo activity by poison baiting does not lead to mesopredator release, because mesopredators are also suppressed by poisoning. We show that this claim is not supported by the data and analysis reported in Allen et al.'s paper.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia. c.n.johnson@utas.edu.au.
authors.forename: Christopher N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Mathew S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Crowther
authors.forename: Chris R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Dickman
authors.forename: Michael I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Letnic
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Newsome
authors.forename: Dale G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Nimmo
authors.forename: Euan G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Ritchie
authors.forename: Arian D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Wallach