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Table 3 Effects of time (T; pre- or post-baiting), treatment (B; baited or unbaited), and time x treatment interactions on the short-term responses of dingoes, foxes, cats and goannas to lethal dingo control events (E) where post-baiting surveys were conducted within four months of dingo-control (mean = 51 days)

From: Intraguild relationships between sympatric predators exposed to lethal control: predator manipulation experiments

  

Dingo

Fox

Cat

Goanna

Source

df

F

p

F

p

F

p

F

p

E

18 (14)

        

T

1

14.37

0.0013

0.39

0.5424

3.91

0.0636

0.07

0.7893

T × E*

18 (14)

        

B

1

46.01

0.0001

2.22

0.1580

0.92

0.3504

0.52

0.4818

B × E*

18 (14)

        

T × B

1

0.12

0.7315

0.33

0.5755

0.31

0.5829

2.41

0.1381

T × B × E*

18 (14)

        
  1. * = Error terms (with adjusted values for those of foxes in parentheses). See Table 4 for mean PTI values and sample sizes used in these analyses.