Island Invasives : Eradication and Management Proceedings of the International Conference on Island

Island invasives: eradication and management

Tristan da Cunha is the world’s remotest inhabited island, with a population of around 270 people. Ship rats (Rattus rattus) and house mice (Mus musculus) are present on the main island of Tristan and house mice are present on Gough Island, also part of the UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha. The impacts of invasive rodents on both islands have been well documented and detailed plans to ...

Island invasives: eradication and management

Island pest eradications almost always involve killing, often of large numbers of animals. Future eradications must pay more attention to the issues this raises, not only because the issues are important in themselves but also because eradications sit within a wider context of increasing welfare and ethical concerns about animal pest management. The welfare issues include the pain and suffering...

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system.

Predator-prey communities are ubiquitous in ecology, but introduced predators can drive native species to extinction within island systems, prompting the eradication of such exotics. Ecological theory predicts that elimination of top-introduced predators from islands can lead to the counterintuitive decline of native prey populations through the ecological release of smaller introduced species ...

CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY AND BIOSECURITY PROGRAMME ABSTRACTS AND LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Island Invasives: Eradication and Management CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY AND BIOSECURITY

S AND LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Island Invasives: Eradication and Management CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY AND BIOSECURITY ISSG Invasive Species Specialist Group The Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity ( ) brings together researchers from the University of Auckland and Landcare Research, including many of New Zealand's pre-eminent experts in biosecurity, invasion ecology, conservation biology and biod...