title: Dingoes at the Doorstep: Home Range Sizes and Activity Patterns of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs around Urban Areas of North-Eastern Australia.
abstract: Top-predators around the world are becoming increasingly intertwined with humans, sometimes causing conﬂict and increasing safety risks in urban areas. In Australia, dingoes and dingo×domesticdoghybridsarecommoninmanyurbanareas,andposeavarietyofhumanhealth and safety risks. However, data on urban dingo ecology is scant. We GPS-collared 37 dingoes in north-easternAustraliaandcontinuouslymonitoredthemeach30minfor11-394days. Mostdingoes were nocturnal, with an overall mean home range size of 17.47 km2. Overall mean daily distance travelled was 6.86 km/day. At all times dingoes were within 1000 m of houses and buildings. Home ranges appeared to be constrained to patches of suitable vegetation fragments within and around human habitation. These data can be used to reallocate dingo management effort towards mitigating actual conﬂicts between humans and dingoes in urban areas.
authors.affiliation: School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia. alice.mcneill@uqconnect.edu.au.
authors.forename: Alice T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: McNeill
authors.affiliation: School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia. luke.leung@uq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Luke K-P
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.affiliation: FeralsOut, Kippa-Ring, Queensland 4021, Australia. mark.goullet@feralsout.com.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Goullet
authors.affiliation: Robert Wicks Pest Animal Research Centre, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia. Matthew.Gentle@daf.qld.gov.au.
authors.forename: Matthew N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Gentle
authors.affiliation: Robert Wicks Pest Animal Research Centre, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia. benjamin.allen@usq.edu.au.|Institute for Agriculture and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia. benjamin.allen@usq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Benjamin L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Allen
keywords: Canis lupus dingo; adaptive kernel; habitat use; human–carnivore conflict; predator management; stray dog; urban ecology