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Animal Science and Veterinary

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4505
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1124
National Ranking
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Ecology and Evolution

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4596
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5680
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Overview

Peter J. S. Fleming is affiliated with the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Ecology and Genetics as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Marine Animal Studies Overview, Rabies Epidemiology and Control, and Geographies of Human-Animal Interactions.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Guy Ballard, Paul D. Meek, Benjamin L. Allen, Stuart J. Dawson, and Jessica Sparkes.

Peter J. S. Fleming has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Wildlife Research
  • Australian Mammalogy
  • Animals
  • Australian Zoologist
  • Ecological Management & Restoration

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter J. S. Fleming include:

  • "Aerial baiting and wild dog mortality in south-eastern Australia", 2020, published in Wildlife Research
  • "Brushtail possum terrestrial activity patterns are driven by climatic conditions, breeding and moonlight intensity", 2023, published in Mammal Research
  • "Distinctive diets of eutherian predators in Australia", 2022, published in Royal Society Open Science
  • "Dingo Density Estimates and Movements in Equatorial Australia: Spatially Explicit Mark-Resight Models", 2020, published in Animals
  • "Why humans kill animals and why we cannot avoid it", 2023, published in The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Managing the impacts of dingoes and other wild dogs

    P. Fleming;L. Corbett;R. Harden;P. Thomson

  • Camera Traps Can Be Heard and Seen by Animals

    Paul D. Meek;Guy Anthony Ballard;Peter J.S. Fleming;Michael Schaefer

  • The pitfalls of wildlife camera trapping as a survey tool in Australia

    Paul D. Meek;Guy-Anthony Ballard;Peter J. S. Fleming

  • Home range, activity and sociality of a top predator, the dingo: a test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis

    Thomas M. Newsome;Guy-Anthony Ballard;Christopher R. Dickman;Peter J. S. Fleming

  • Are we getting the full picture? Animal responses to camera traps and implications for predator studies.

    Paul Meek;Guy Ballard;Peter Fleming;Greg Falzon

  • Death by sex in an Australian icon: a continent-wide survey reveals extensive hybridization between dingoes and domestic dogs

    Danielle Stephens;Alan N. Wilton;Peter J.S. Fleming;Peter J.S. Fleming;Oliver Berry

  • As clear as mud: A critical review of evidence for the ecological roles of Australian dingoes

    Benjamin L.R. Allen;Peter J.S. Fleming;Lee R. Allen;Richard M. Engeman

  • Evaluation of the efficacy of 1080 poisoning of red foxes using visitation to non-toxic baits as an index of fox abundance

    J. A. Thompson;P. J. S. Fleming

  • Can we save large carnivores without losing large carnivore science

    Benjamin L. Allen;Lee R. Allen;Henrik Andrén;Guy Ballard

  • The success of GPS collar deployments on mammals in Australia

    Alison Matthews;Laura Ruykys;Bill Ellis;Sean FitzGibbon

  • A strategic approach to mitigating the impacts of wild canids: proposed activities of the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre

    P.J.S. Fleming;L.R. Allen;S.J. Lapidge;A. Robley

  • Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration

    Thomas M. Newsome;Thomas M. Newsome;Guy Anthony Ballard;Guy Anthony Ballard;Mathew S. Crowther;Justin A. Dellinger

  • Human-resource subsidies alter the dietary preferences of a mammalian top predator.

    Thomas M. Newsome;Guy-Anthony Ballard;Peter J. S. Fleming;Remy van de Ven

  • Camera Trapping: Wildlife Management and Research

    Peter Fleming;Paul Meek;Guy Ballard;Peter Banks

  • Seven considerations about dingoes as biodiversity engineers: the socioecological niches of dogs in Australia

    Peter J. S. Fleming;Benjamin L. Allen;Guy-Anthony Ballard

  • Phylogenetic relationships of Australian and New Zealand feral pigs assessed by mitochondrial control region sequence and nuclear GPIP genotype

    Jaime Gongora;Peter Fleming;Peter B.S. Spencer;Richard Mason

  • Management of wild canids in Australia: free-ranging dogs and red foxes

    Peter J. S. Fleming;Ben L. Allen;Lee R. Allen;Guy Anthony Ballard

  • Reintroducing the dingo: the risk of dingo predation to threatened vertebrates of western New South Wales

    B. L. Allen;P. J. S. Fleming

  • Implications of wild dog ecology on the sylvatic and domestic life cycle of Neospora caninum in Australia.

    Jessica S. King;David J. Jenkins;John T. Ellis;Peter Fleming

  • Canine rabies in Australia: a review of preparedness and research needs.

    J Sparkes;P J S Fleming;G Ballard;H Scott-Orr

  • Oocysts and high seroprevalence of Neospora caninum in dogs living in remote Aboriginal communities and wild dogs in Australia

    Jessica S King;Graeme K Brown;David Jenkins;David Jenkins;John Timothy Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin L. Allen
Benjamin L. Allen University of Southern Queensland
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Thomas M. Newsome
Thomas M. Newsome University of Sydney
Chris R. Dickman
Chris R. Dickman University of Sydney
Katherine E. Moseby
Katherine E. Moseby University of New South Wales
Gerhard Körtner
Gerhard Körtner University of New England
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
Graham I. H. Kerley
Graham I. H. Kerley Nelson Mandela University
Nick Reid
Nick Reid University of New England
Wolfgang Wüster
Wolfgang Wüster Bangor University

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