A tour de force by Hawaii's invasive mammals: establishment, takeover, and ecosystem restoration through eradication

SC Hess - Mammal Study, 2016 - BioOne
Invasive mammals have irreversibly altered ecosystems of Hawai 'i and other tropical Pacific
islands in numerous cases through novel herbivory, predation, and diseases, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] Forest bird population status on Saipan, a small oceanic island

T Bak, S Mullin, E Kohler, BA Eichelberger… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tropical oceanic islands are critical biodiversity hotspots where population monitoring can
help to determine the status and trends of rare and endangered species. Saipan is the …

Feral goats and sheep

SC Hess, DH Van Vuren… - Ecology and management …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Sheep and goats are among the earliest animals domesticated by mankind (Zeder 2009).
Both goats and sheep may have made better candidates for domestication than other …

Monitoring Eradication of European Mouflon Sheep from the Kahuku Unit of Hawai 'i Volcanoes National Park 1

SW Judge, SC Hess, JK Faford, D Pacheco… - Pacific Science, 2017 - BioOne
European mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon), the world's smallest wild sheep, have
proliferated and degraded fragile native ecosystems in the Hawaiian Islands through …

Population estimates of the Endangered Hawaiʻi ʻĀkepa (Loxops coccineus) in different habitats on windward Mauna Loa

SW Judge, RJ Camp, PJ Hart… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Endangered Hawai 'i ʻĀkepas (Loxops coccineus) are endemic to Hawai 'i island,
where they occur in five spatially distinct populations. Data concerning the status and …

Changes in habitat use and distribution of mouflon in the Kahuku Unit of Hawai 'i Volcanoes National Park

B Palupe, CR Leopold, SC Hess… - Pacific Conservation …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
European mouflon sheep (Ovis gmelini musimon) were introduced to Kahuku Ranch on
Hawai 'i Island in 1968 and 1974 for trophy hunting and have been detrimental to the native …