Eradication of invasive mammals on islands inhabited by humans and domestic animals

S Oppel, BM Beaven, M Bolton, J Vickery… - Conservation …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐native invasive mammal species have caused major ecological change on many
islands. To conserve native species diversity, invasive mammals have been eradicated from …

A systematic review of rodent pest research in Afro-Malagasy small-holder farming systems: Are we asking the right questions?

LH Swanepoel, CM Swanepoel, PR Brown, SJ Eiseb… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Rodent pests are especially problematic in terms of agriculture and public health since they
can inflict considerable economic damage associated with their abundance, diversity …

Fifty years of rodent eradications in New Zealand: another decade of advances

JC Russell, KG Broome - New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2016 - JSTOR
New Zealand has just passed half a century of rodent eradications on islands. Confirmation
of the first rat eradication in New Zealand on Maria Island/Ruapuke coincided with the …

A comparison of attitudes towards introduced wildlife in New Zealand in 1994 and 2012

JC Russell - Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Attitudes play an important role in introduced wildlife management. The attitudes of New
Zealanders to introduced wildlife and their control were surveyed in 2012, and compared …

Multiple introductions determine the genetic structure of an invasive species population: American mink Neovison vison in Poland

A Zalewski, A Michalska-Parda, M Bartoszewicz… - Biological …, 2010 - Elsevier
Genetic diversity of feral and ranch American mink was studied in order to understand the
processes of invasion and the possible influence of multiple introductions on the feral mink …

Urban population genetics of slum‐dwelling rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Salvador, Brazil

B Kajdacsi, F Costa, C Hyseni, F Porter… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the developing world, urban centres with sprawling slum settlements are rapidly
expanding and invading previously forested ecosystems. Slum communities are …

Reinvasion by ship rats (Rattus rattus) of forest fragments after eradication

CM King, JG Innes, D Gleeson, N Fitzgerald… - Biological …, 2011 - Springer
Reinvasions provide prime examples of source-sink population dynamics, and are a major
reason for failure of eradications of invasive rats from protected areas. Yet little is known …

Eradications as scientific experiments: progress in simultaneous eradications of two major invasive taxa from a Mediterranean island

L Ruffino, E Krebs, A Passetti… - Pest Management …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Black rats, Rattus rattus, and mat‐forming iceplants, Carpobrotus aff.
acinaciformis and Carpobrotus edulis, are pervasive pests on Mediterranean islands. Their …

Island prioritization for invasive rodent eradications with an emphasis on reinvasion risk

DB Harris, SD Gregory, LS Bull, F Courchamp - Biological Invasions, 2012 - Springer
Invasive rodents occur on over 80% of the world's island groups, invasions are continuing,
and rodent impacts on insular wildlife have been well demonstrated. The extent of this …

Prioritizing rat eradication on islands by cost and effectiveness to protect nesting seabirds

D Capizzi, N Baccetti, P Sposimo - Biological conservation, 2010 - Elsevier
To prioritize conservation actions on Italian islands we used the case study of the
eradication of the Black rat Rattus rattus to protect Cory's shearwater Calonectris diomedea …