The culling of mammalian mesopredators is often justified by alleged conservation benefits for a target prey species. A recent study in BMC Ecology demonstrates that uncoordinated culls may often fail to achieve such benefits,despite subjectively tall culling effort. This is the issue we tackled in a recent research project using fox culls in fragmented montane forests as a study system.
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Source: biomedcentral.com