Research and Publications
The Myall Lakes Dingo/Dapin project is a scientific research project focused on informing evidence-based management. It aims to further our understanding of dingo social ecology and the impact(s) of dingoes on humans and other species in the ecosystem, and vice versa.
MLDP research projects tend to focus on aspects of dingo ecology or the impacts of dingoes that may be applied to wildlife management. This includes the development and testing of potential coexistence tools and strategies.
As dingo social ecology has arguably been overlooked in the literature to date, another major aim of the MLDP is to deepen our collective understanding of dingo social behaviour and ecology, which we tackle by following the fates and fortunes of individual dingoes in several known packs over the long-term.
Graduate student research projects form the bulk of the research outputs to date, and a list of research publications can be found below.
Student theses:
Hirani, S. (2026).听Food for thought and management: Quantifying natural and anthropogenic food items in dingo diets, a comparison of sample sources and analysis approaches. Honours thesis, 91色情片 Sydney.
Wood, P. (2025).鈥Coexistence is relationships: Rethinking how conservation research studies human-wildlife relation.听PhD thesis, 91色情片 Canberra.
Alting, B. F. (2025).听Ecology and interactions of dingoes in a human-modified landscape.听PhD thesis, 91色情片 Sydney.
Gamage, D. (2024). Ultrasonic playbacks deter wild dingoes: implications for threatened species conservation. Honours thesis, 91色情片 Sydney.
Cheung, J. (2024). Characterising dingo and fox diets using DNA metabarcoding within the Myall Lakes region. Honours thesis, 91色情片 Sydney.
Research papers and book chapters:
Gamage, D., Pitcher, B.J., Appleby, R.G. & Jordan, N.R. (2026)听Ultrasonic playback to deter eutherian carnivores: Implications for threatened species conservation.听Wildlife Research 53 (4): WR25150.听
Alting, B. F., Pitcher, B. J., Campbell-Ward, M. L., & Jordan, N. R. (2025).听Estimating canid territories and pack compositions: Camera traps provide comparable metrics to an intense radio-collaring programme on dingoes.听Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6, e70129.听
Henderson EK, Pitcher BJ, Jordan NR. (2025)听Informing apex predator management: population viability analysis of dingoes under different management scenarios.听Wildlife Research 52, WR25041.听
Alting, B.F., Pitcher, B.J. & Jordan, N.R. (2025)听Dingo visitation patterns and behaviour at long-term scent-marking sites suggests a role in mate competition.听Behav Ecol Sociobiol 79, 92 .听
Alting BF, Pitcher BJ, Campbell-Ward, M. & Jordan NR. (2025).听Dingo movement depends on sex, social status and litter size.听R Soc Open Sci. 1 July 2025; 12 (7): 250255.听
Bruce, T., Amir, Z., Allen, B. L., Alting, B. F., Amos, M., Augusteyn, J., ... Jordan, N. R, ..., Pitcher, B.J., 鈥 & Streeting, L. M. (2025).听Large鈥恠cale and long鈥恡erm wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis.听Biological Reviews 100: 530鈥555.听
Mifsud, J.C., Harvey, E., Van Brussel, K., Olsson, A., Pitcher, B.J., Hall, J., Fenton, H., Alting, B.F., Sadiq, S. and Holmes, E.C., (2025).听Diverse viral pathogens in Australian canines: limited geographic structure and the first detection of an RNA virus in dingoes.听Virus Evolution, 11(1), p.veaf042.听
Alting, B. F., Pitcher, B. J., Rees, M. W., Ferrer鈥怭aris, J. R., & Jordan, N. R. (2024).听Population density and ranging behaviour of a generalist carnivore varies with human population.听Ecology and Evolution, 14(5), e11404.听
Walker, B. J., Letnic, M., Bucknall, M. P., Watson, L., & Jordan, N. R. (2024).听Male dingo urinary scents code for age class and wild dingoes respond to this information.听Chemical Senses, 49, bjae004.听
Jordan, N. R., Campbell-Ward, M., Vandersteen, J., Colman, N., Alting, B., Gamage, D., ... & Pitcher, B. J. (2023).Inferring interspecific killing of Red Fox by Dingo from wounds and inter-canine distance measures鈥揳nd a call for more data.听Australian Zoologist, 43(2), 276-280.听
Tucker, M. A., Schipper, A. M., Adams, T. S., Attias, N., Avgar, T., Babic, N. L., ... & Stacy-Dawes, J. (2023).听Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns.听Science, 380(6649), 1059-1064.听
Gorta, S. B., Alting, B., Claridge, A., & Henderson, T. (2021).听Apparent piebald variants in quolls (Dasyurus): examples of three recent cases in the spotted-tailed quoll听Dasyurus maculatus.听Australian Mammalogy, 43(3), 373-377.听
Smith, B. P., Appleby, R. G., & Jordan, N. R. (2021).听Co-existing with dingoes: Challenges and solutions to implementing non-lethal management.听Australian Zoologist, 41(3), 491-510.听
Other reports and outputs:
Jordan NR, Pitcher BJ, Campbell-Ward M, Dibnah A, Jeffery AU, Alting B, Henderson E, Christensen H (2026).听MLDP/CES Submission to the NSW Legislative Council Animal Welfare Committee Inquiry into dingoes in NSW National Parks.听/news/2026/08/Submission-NSW-Legislative-Council-Animal-Welfare-Committee-Inquiry-into-dingoes-NSWNP
Credit: Alex Dibnah. A dingo in a campground.
