Assessment and Management of Invasive Alien Predators

By Kirsty J. Park. 2004

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Although invasive alien species have been identified as the second greatest threat to biodiversity after habitat loss, characterizing and quantifying their impacts on native species and habitats remains a fundamental problem in conservation biology. Here, I review the techniques that are currently used to assess the impact of invasive alien species on biodiversity, highlighting both their uses in invasive species ecology and their limitations in establishing a causal relationship. Adopting a hypothesis-driven experimental approach to impact assessment, and to eradication efforts through adaptive management, would benefit our ecological understanding of invasive species without delaying critical management action that could reduce the spread of invasive species populations.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• Diet of the raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides — a canid with an opportunistic foraging strategy (2010, background): “But this has no effect on the population dynamics of the predator itself, because most invasive alien species are generalists and able to use different food sources (Park 2004).”
• Identifying plausible scenarios for the establishment of invasive Burmese pythons (Python molurus) in Southern Florida (2011, background): “Invasive species are widely recognized as one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity (Pimentel et al. 2000; Park 2004).”
• Review of negative effects of introduced rodents on small mammals on islands (2009, background): “Such an approach should allay ethical fears and uncertainty regarding the benefits of introduced species removal while simultaneously advising on feasibility and predicting consequences of control/ eradication prior to the initiation of an expensive campaign (Courchamp et al. 2003; Park 2004; Towns ”
• A review of the current knowledge of rodent behaviour in relation to control devices. (2006, background): “9 Science for Conservation 263 when to attempt rodent eradication included (see Harwood 2000; Maguire 2004; Park 2004; Iwatsuki et al. 2005).”