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Open AccessA review of methods for detecting rats at low densities, with implications for surveillance
Invasive rats are the biggest threat to island biodiversity world-wide. Though the ecological impacts of rats on insular biota are well documented, introduced rats present a difficult problem for detection and...
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Open AccessGlobal assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds
Plastic pollution is distributed patchily around the world’s oceans. Likewise, marine organisms that are vulnerable to plastic ingestion or entanglement have uneven distributions. Understanding where wildlife ...
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Open AccessThe tails of two invasive species: genetic responses to acute and chronic bottlenecks
Genetic diversity can affect population viability and can be reduced by both acute and chronic mechanisms. Using the history of the establishment and management of two invasive rat species on Tetiaroa atoll, F...
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Open AccessThe global contribution of invasive vertebrate eradication as a key island restoration tool
Islands are global hotspots for biodiversity and extinction, representing ~ 5% of Earth’s land area alongside 40% of globally threatened vertebrates and 61% of global extinctions since the 1500s. Invasive spec...
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Flexible foraging strategies in a highly pelagic seabird revealed by seasonal isotopic niche variation
Flexibility in foraging strategy is an important mechanism by which seabirds cope with spatiotemporal heterogeneity in food availability and the variable energetic constraints of their annual life cycle. Forag...
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A strategic social impact assessment for Predator-Free Rakiura, New Zealand, with a human–ecological approach
Stewart Island/Rakiura, the third largest island in New Zealand, around 30 km off the South Island, provides sanctuaries for endangered species and subsequent work on ecological restoration. The natural enviro...
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Open AccessSystematic prey preference by introduced mice exhausts the ecosystem on Antipodes Island
House mice (Mus musculus) are a widespread invasive species on islands. Where they are the sole introduced mammal they can have particularly strong negative impacts on recipient ecosystems. House mice impacts hav...
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Risks posed by rat reproduction and diet to eradications on tropical islands
Removing invasive rodents from islands has many ecological and social benefits. However, eradications fail more frequently on tropical than on temperate islands, and causes for these failures are not yet well ...
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Diagnosing and responding to causes of failure to eradicate invasive rodents
Eradicating invasive rodents from islands is a common and powerful tool for conserving and restoring island ecosystems and populations. However, a variety of practical and ecological factors make rodent eradic...
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Conserving New Zealand’s native fauna: a review of tools being developed for the Predator Free 2050 programme
The endemic fauna of New Zealand evolved in the absence of mammalian predators and the introduction of the latter has been devastating. There have been numerous avian extinctions and 80% of the extant native a...
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Modeling Collective Animal Movement Through Interactions in Behavioral States
Animal movement often exhibits changing behavior because animals often alternate between exploring, resting, feeding, or other potential states. Changes in these behavioral states are often driven by environme...
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Rodent eradications as ecosystem experiments: a case study from the Mexican tropics
For effective and efficient pest management it is essential to understand the ecology of the target species and recipient ecosystems. The use of rodent eradication as a restoration tool is well established in ...
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Five-year population dynamics of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) on the east of Tibetan Plateau
Small mammals mediate trajectories of vegetation change where both their density and the growing season are moderated by temperature and precipitation. On the Tibetan Plateau, the cold and arid climate particu...
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The more the merrier? Multi-species grazing of small herbivores mediates plant community impacts
Small herbivores play keystone functional roles in grassland ecosystems. Recognising the combined effects where herbivores co-exist is important for guiding grassland restoration and biodiversity conservation....
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Dynamic Models of Animal Movement with Spatial Point Process Interactions
When analyzing animal movement, it is important to account for interactions between individuals. However, statistical models for incorporating interaction behavior in movement models are limited. We propose an...
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Open AccessEvaluating a multigene environmental DNA approach for biodiversity assessment
There is an increasing demand for rapid biodiversity assessment tools that have a broad taxonomic coverage. Here we evaluate a suite of environmental DNA (eDNA) markers coupled with next generation sequencing ...
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Experimental island invasion of house mice
The ability of invasive species to recurrently establish populations from small numbers of founders, while threatened species struggle at the same low population sizes, is a paradox in conservation biology. Li...
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Spatio-temporal patterns of introduced mice and invertebrates on Antipodes Island
House mice (Mus musculus) are a widespread introduced species with major but often overlooked impacts on ecosystems, proportionally greater when they are the only introduced mammal present. Studies conducted on t...
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Broken symmetry and the variation of critical properties in the phase behaviour of supramolecular rhombus tilings
The tiling of surfaces has long attracted the attention of scientists, not only because it is intriguing intrinsically, but also as a way to control the properties of surfaces. However, although random tiling ...
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The island syndrome and population dynamics of introduced rats
The island syndrome predicts directional changes in the morphology and demography of insular vertebrates, due to changes in trophic complexity and migration rates caused by island size and isolation. However, ...
