Laurie Corbett's research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places

Publications (2)

Article
Interbreeding between protected species and their domestic forms presents a conundrum for wildlife managers and legislators with respect to both defining the taxa concerned and enacting or enforcing conservation measures. Recent research on two species geographically distant but with highly analogous histories, the wildcat (Felis silvestris) in Sco...
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Managing the Impacts of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the history and biology of wild dogs in Australia, the damage they cause, and community attitudes to their management. Australia's wild dogs include dingoes, introduced around 4000 years ago, feral domestic dogs and hybrids between the two. Th...

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... The dingo (Canis dingo [33,34] or Canis familiaris [35,36]-its taxonomy is disputed [37][38][39]), Australia's largest terrestrial carnivore, is one species warranting further investigation into its ecological role. Dingoes have long been controlled due to conflicts with livestock producers [40,41] and are known to prey upon a range of threatened species [42][43][44][45][46][47]. In some cases, they have also compromised conservation efforts [10,48]. ...
... It was hypothesised that dingo × domestic dog admixture patterns in Australia fit a unimodal hybrid swarm with extensive genetic swamping (Allen et al., 2017;Claridge et al., 2014;Daniels & Corbett, 2003;Stephens et al., 2015). However, our data suggest that the pattern of genetic admixture observed in dingoes fits a bimodal hybrid zone, with a majority of the population being pure dingoes or dingo backcrosses with low levels of intermediate dingo × dog hybrids (Figures 3 and 4, Table 2). ...