List of works - Matt W. Hayward

A Framework for the Eltonian Niche of Humans

scientific article published on 26 May 2021

A global database and "state of the field" review of research into ecosystem engineering by land animals.

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

A review of camera trapping for conservation behaviour research

Acting fast helps avoid extinction

Activity patterns of reintroduced lion Panthera leo and spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa

article

Ambiguity in guideline definitions introduces assessor bias and influences consistency in IUCN Red List status assessments

article

An objective approach to determining the weight ranges of prey preferred by and accessible to the five large African carnivores

scientific article

Animal Ethics and Ecotourism

Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?

Assessing re-introductions of the African Wild dog (Lycaon pictus) in the Limpopo Valley Conservancy, South Africa, using the stochastic simulation program VORTEX

article

Beyond species counts for assessing, valuing, and conserving biodiversity: response to Wallach et al. 2019

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Border Security Fencing and Wildlife: The End of the Transboundary Paradigm in Eurasia?

scientific article

Bushmeat Hunting in Dwesa and Cwebe Nature Reserves, Eastern Cape, South Africa

article

CONSERVATION POLICY. Questionable policy for large carnivore hunting.

scientific article published in December 2015

Carrying capacity of large African predators: Predictions and tests

article

Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

scientific article

Compassionate Conservation Clashes With Conservation Biology: Should Empathy, Compassion, and Deontological Moral Principles Drive Conservation Practice?

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Complex Organisms Must Deal with Complex Threats: How Does Amphibian Conservation Deal with Biphasic Life Cycles?

scientific article published in 2023

Conservation management for the past, present and future

article by Matt W. Hayward published 16 July 2008 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Conservation: Don't bank African rhinos in Australia.

scientific article

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Correction

Deconstructing compassionate conservation

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Determinants of bird conservation-action implementation and associated population trends of threatened species

scientific article published on 16 May 2016

Dietary flexibility promotes range expansion: The case of golden jackals in Eurasia

scientific article published in 2022

Do Differing Levels of Boldness Influence the Success of Translocation? A Pilot Study on Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris)

scientific article published on 26 September 2020

Do fences constrain predator movements on an evolutionary scale? Home range, food intake and movement patterns of large predators reintroduced to Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa

article

Do lions Panthera leo actively select prey or do prey preferences simply reflect chance responses via evolutionary adaptations to optimal foraging?

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Does size matter for horny beetles? A geometric morphometric analysis of interspecific and intersexual size and shape variation in Colophon haughtoni Barnard, 1929, and C. kawaii Mizukami, 1997 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

Editorial: Triage in Conservation

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Effect of prey mass and selection on predator carrying capacity estimates

article

Effects of reconstruction of a pre-European vertebrate assemblage on ground-dwelling arachnids in arid Australia

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Extensive Transmission of Microbes along the Gastrointestinal Tract

article

Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract

article

FORUM: Ecologists need robust survey designs, sampling and analytical methods

scientific article published in 2015

Factors affecting the prey preferences of jackals (Canidae)

article

Fear of the dark? A mesopredator mitigates large carnivore risk through nocturnality, but humans moderate the interaction

scientific article published in May 2020

Fear, foraging and olfaction: how mesopredators avoid costly interactions with apex predators.

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

Feeding responses of the golden jackal after reduction of anthropogenic food subsidies

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Fencing for conservation: Restriction of evolutionary potential or a riposte to threatening processes?

article

Fencing solves human-wildlife conflict locally but shifts problems elsewhere: A case study using functional connectivity modelling of the African elephant

scientific article published in 2018

Foraging theory provides a useful framework for livestock predation management

scientific article published in June 2019

HABITAT USE OF THE QUOKKA, SETONIX BRACHYURUS (MACROPODIDAE: MARSUPIALIA), IN THE NORTHERN JARRAH FOREST OF AUSTRALIA

article

High density, maternal condition, and stress are associated with male-biased sex allocation in a marsupial

article

Home range and movements of the quokka Setonix brachyurus (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), and its impact on the viability of the metapopulation on the Australian mainland

article

Increasing elephant Loxodonta africana density is a more important driver of change in vegetation condition than rainfall

Increasing elephantLoxodonta africana density is a more important driver of change in vegetation condition than rainfall

India keeps a close eye on its tigers

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Large area used by squirrel gliders in an urban area, uncovered using GPS telemetry

scientific article published in 2021

Large carnivore impacts are context-dependent

Lions Panthera leo Prefer Killing Certain Cattle Bos taurus Types

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Lions, leopards and muskoxen: a (very) light-hearted look at the ups, downs, ins and outs of a postdoctoral career through the eyes of two zoologists ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2008

Local population structure of a naturally occurring metapopulation of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus Macropodidae: Marsupialia)

scholarly article by Matt W. Hayward et al published April 2003 in Biological Conservation

Market‐Based Incentives and Private Ownership of Wildlife to Remedy Shortfalls in Government Funding for Conservation

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Minimum prey and area requirements of the Vulnerable cheetah Acinonyx jubatus: implications for reintroduction and management of the species in South Africa

article

Mortality and survivorship of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) (Macropodidae : Marsupialia) in the northern jarrah forest of Western Australia

article

Moving beyond the Descriptive: Predicting the Responses of Top-Order Predators to Reintroduction

article

Moving the Goalposts: Possible Effects of Changes in Opportunity Costs on Conservation Triage

scientific article published in 2016

Neocolonial Conservation: Is Moving Rhinos to Australia Conservation or Intellectual Property Loss

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Niche conservatism and the invasive potential of the wild boar.

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Numbat nirvana: conservation ecology of the endangered numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) (Marsupialia : Myrmecobiidae) reintroduced to Scotia and Yookamurra Sanctuaries, Australia

article

PREY PREFERENCES OF THE AFRICAN WILD DOG LYCAON PICTUS (CANIDAE: CARNIVORA): ECOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSERVATION

article

Potential amplification of territorial advertisement markings by black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas)

Practical Considerations for the Reintroduction of Large, Terrestrial,Mammalian Predators Based on Reintroductions to South Africa's Eastern Cape Province

Predicting the occurrence of the quokka,Setonix brachyurus(Macropodidae�:�Marsupialia), in Western Australia's northern jarrah forest

article

Prey Preferences of the Jaguar Panthera onca Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey

article

Prey preferences and dietary overlap amongst Africa's large predators

article

Prey preferences of the lion ( Panthera leo )

scientific article published in 2005

Prey preferences of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): regional diet specificity holds global significance for conservation

scientific article

Prey preferences of the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) and degree of dietary overlap with the lion (Panthera leo)

scientific article published in 2006

Reintroducing rewilding to restoration – Rejecting the search for novelty

scientific article published in May 2019

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators: Using Science to Restore One of the Drivers of Biodiversity

Rethinking megafauna

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Risk perception by endangered European bison Bison bonasus is context (condition) dependent

scientific article published in 2015

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

scientific article

Scarcity in the prey community yields anti-predator benefits

scholarly article by Matt W. Hayward published July 2011 in Acta Oecologica

Soil-foraging animals alter the composition and co-occurrence of microbial communities in a desert shrubland.

scientific article published on May 2015

Spatial and temporal changes in group dynamics and range use enable anti-predator responses in African buffalo.

scientific article

Spatial behaviour of yellow-footed rock-wallabies, Petrogale xanthopus, changes in response to active conservation management

scientific article published in 2013

Spatial patterns of African ungulate aggregation reveal complex but limited risk effects from reintroduced carnivores

scientific article published in May 2016

Survival of Cheetahs Relocated from Ranchland to Fenced Protected Areas in South Africa

article

Temporal Partitioning of Activity in Large African Carnivores: Tests of Multiple Hypotheses

article

Testing Predictions of the Prey of Lion Derived From Modeled Prey Preferences

article

The Impact of Upgrading Roads on the Conservation of the Threatened Flightless Dung Beetle,Circellum bacchus(F.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

scholarly article by Matt W. Hayward published in March 2010

The Relative Role of Knowledge and Empathy in Predicting Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project ⬇️

scientific article

The diet of denning female European pine martens (Martes martes) in Galloway Forest District, South West Scotland, Great Britain

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

The impact of tourists on lion Panthera leo behaviour, stress and energetics

article

The many faces of fear: a synthesis of the methodological variation in characterizing predation risk.

scientific article published on 8 April 2017

The need to rationalize and prioritize threatening processes used to determine threat status in the IUCN Red List

scientific article

The reintroduction of large carnivores to the Eastern Cape, South Africa: an assessment

article

The successful reintroduction of leopard Panthera pardus to the Addo Elephant National Park

article

Towards standards for human fecal sample processing in metagenomic studies.

scientific article

Using assisted colonisation to conserve biodiversity and restore ecosystem function under climate change

scholarly article by Ian D. Lunt et al published January 2013 in Biological Conservation

Using faecal pellet counts along transects to estimate quokka (Setonix brachyurus) population density

article

Using the IUCN Red List to determine effective conservation strategies

Waterhole use by African Fauna

article

What do you mean by “niche”? Modern ecological theories are not coherent on rhetoric about the niche concept

scientific article published in May 2021

Whose backyard? Some precautions in choosing recipient sites for assisted colonisation of Australian plants and animals

article

Will dingoes really conserve wildlife and can our methods tell?

scientific article published in 2014

Will systematic reviews facilitate translational behavioral ecology? With a few conditions: comment on Berger-Tal et al

scholarly article by Andrea S Griffin & Matt W. Hayward published 14 November 2018 in Behavioral Ecology

List of works by Matt W. Hayward

A Framework for the Eltonian Niche of Humans

A global database and "state of the field" review of research into ecosystem engineering by land animals.

A review of camera trapping for conservation behaviour research

Acting fast helps avoid extinction

Activity patterns of reintroduced lion Panthera leo and spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa

Ambiguity in guideline definitions introduces assessor bias and influences consistency in IUCN Red List status assessments

An objective approach to determining the weight ranges of prey preferred by and accessible to the five large African carnivores

Animal Ethics and Ecotourism

Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?

Assessing re-introductions of the African Wild dog (Lycaon pictus) in the Limpopo Valley Conservancy, South Africa, using the stochastic simulation program VORTEX

Beyond species counts for assessing, valuing, and conserving biodiversity: response to Wallach et al. 2019

Border Security Fencing and Wildlife: The End of the Transboundary Paradigm in Eurasia?

Bushmeat Hunting in Dwesa and Cwebe Nature Reserves, Eastern Cape, South Africa

CONSERVATION POLICY. Questionable policy for large carnivore hunting.

Carrying capacity of large African predators: Predictions and tests

Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

Compassionate Conservation Clashes With Conservation Biology: Should Empathy, Compassion, and Deontological Moral Principles Drive Conservation Practice?

Complex Organisms Must Deal with Complex Threats: How Does Amphibian Conservation Deal with Biphasic Life Cycles?

Conservation management for the past, present and future

Conservation: Don't bank African rhinos in Australia.

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Correction

Deconstructing compassionate conservation

Determinants of bird conservation-action implementation and associated population trends of threatened species

Dietary flexibility promotes range expansion: The case of golden jackals in Eurasia

Do Differing Levels of Boldness Influence the Success of Translocation? A Pilot Study on Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris)

Do fences constrain predator movements on an evolutionary scale? Home range, food intake and movement patterns of large predators reintroduced to Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa

Do lions Panthera leo actively select prey or do prey preferences simply reflect chance responses via evolutionary adaptations to optimal foraging?

Does size matter for horny beetles? A geometric morphometric analysis of interspecific and intersexual size and shape variation in Colophon haughtoni Barnard, 1929, and C. kawaii Mizukami, 1997 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

Editorial: Triage in Conservation

Effect of prey mass and selection on predator carrying capacity estimates

Effects of reconstruction of a pre-European vertebrate assemblage on ground-dwelling arachnids in arid Australia

Extensive Transmission of Microbes along the Gastrointestinal Tract

Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract

FORUM: Ecologists need robust survey designs, sampling and analytical methods

Factors affecting the prey preferences of jackals (Canidae)

Fear of the dark? A mesopredator mitigates large carnivore risk through nocturnality, but humans moderate the interaction

Fear, foraging and olfaction: how mesopredators avoid costly interactions with apex predators.

Feeding responses of the golden jackal after reduction of anthropogenic food subsidies

Fencing for conservation: Restriction of evolutionary potential or a riposte to threatening processes?

Fencing solves human-wildlife conflict locally but shifts problems elsewhere: A case study using functional connectivity modelling of the African elephant

Foraging theory provides a useful framework for livestock predation management

HABITAT USE OF THE QUOKKA, SETONIX BRACHYURUS (MACROPODIDAE: MARSUPIALIA), IN THE NORTHERN JARRAH FOREST OF AUSTRALIA

High density, maternal condition, and stress are associated with male-biased sex allocation in a marsupial

Home range and movements of the quokka Setonix brachyurus (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), and its impact on the viability of the metapopulation on the Australian mainland

Increasing elephant Loxodonta africana density is a more important driver of change in vegetation condition than rainfall

Increasing elephantLoxodonta africana density is a more important driver of change in vegetation condition than rainfall

India keeps a close eye on its tigers

Large area used by squirrel gliders in an urban area, uncovered using GPS telemetry

Large carnivore impacts are context-dependent

Lions Panthera leo Prefer Killing Certain Cattle Bos taurus Types

Lions, leopards and muskoxen: a (very) light-hearted look at the ups, downs, ins and outs of a postdoctoral career through the eyes of two zoologists ⬇️

Local population structure of a naturally occurring metapopulation of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus Macropodidae: Marsupialia)

Market‐Based Incentives and Private Ownership of Wildlife to Remedy Shortfalls in Government Funding for Conservation

Minimum prey and area requirements of the Vulnerable cheetah Acinonyx jubatus: implications for reintroduction and management of the species in South Africa

Mortality and survivorship of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) (Macropodidae : Marsupialia) in the northern jarrah forest of Western Australia

Moving beyond the Descriptive: Predicting the Responses of Top-Order Predators to Reintroduction

Moving the Goalposts: Possible Effects of Changes in Opportunity Costs on Conservation Triage

Neocolonial Conservation: Is Moving Rhinos to Australia Conservation or Intellectual Property Loss

Niche conservatism and the invasive potential of the wild boar.

Numbat nirvana: conservation ecology of the endangered numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) (Marsupialia : Myrmecobiidae) reintroduced to Scotia and Yookamurra Sanctuaries, Australia

PREY PREFERENCES OF THE AFRICAN WILD DOG LYCAON PICTUS (CANIDAE: CARNIVORA): ECOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSERVATION

Potential amplification of territorial advertisement markings by black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas)

Practical Considerations for the Reintroduction of Large, Terrestrial,Mammalian Predators Based on Reintroductions to South Africa's Eastern Cape Province

Predicting the occurrence of the quokka,Setonix brachyurus(Macropodidae�:�Marsupialia), in Western Australia's northern jarrah forest

Prey Preferences of the Jaguar Panthera onca Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey

Prey preferences and dietary overlap amongst Africa's large predators

Prey preferences of the lion ( Panthera leo )

Prey preferences of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): regional diet specificity holds global significance for conservation

Prey preferences of the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) and degree of dietary overlap with the lion (Panthera leo)

Reintroducing rewilding to restoration – Rejecting the search for novelty

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators: Using Science to Restore One of the Drivers of Biodiversity

Rethinking megafauna

Risk perception by endangered European bison Bison bonasus is context (condition) dependent

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

Scarcity in the prey community yields anti-predator benefits

Soil-foraging animals alter the composition and co-occurrence of microbial communities in a desert shrubland.

Spatial and temporal changes in group dynamics and range use enable anti-predator responses in African buffalo.