About the Authors

Jordan O. Hampton

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordan O. Hampton, Grant Eccles, Rob Hunt, Andrew J. Bengsen, Andrew L. Perry

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jordan.hampton@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Grant Eccles

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordan O. Hampton, Grant Eccles, Rob Hunt, Andrew J. Bengsen, Andrew L. Perry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia

Rob Hunt

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordan O. Hampton, Grant Eccles, Rob Hunt, Andrew J. Bengsen, Andrew L. Perry

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia

Andrew J. Bengsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordan O. Hampton, Grant Eccles, Rob Hunt, Andrew J. Bengsen, Andrew L. Perry

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, NSW, Australia

Andrew L. Perry

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordan O. Hampton, Grant Eccles, Rob Hunt, Andrew J. Bengsen, Andrew L. Perry

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Steve Parker

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia

Corissa J. Miller

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Steve K. Joslyn

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation VetDB, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Sigbjørn Stokke

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway

Jon M. Arnemo

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Applied Ecology and Agricultural Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Koppang, Norway, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Quentin Hart

Roles Funding acquisition

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

Four authors [JOH, ALP, CJM and SKJ] had commercial affiliations with private consultancies within 5 years of conducting this research. These positions were with companies that provide veterinary consulting services to numerous clients and could not reasonably have interfered with the full and objective presentation of this research. The companies were Ecotone Wildlife [JOH, ALP and CJM] and VetDB [SKJ]. Neither company is involved in patents, products in development, or marketed products in this or related areas. These commercial affiliations do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.