The effect of feral cats on the population viability of black‐vented shearwaters (Puffinus opisthomelas) on Natividad Island, Mexico

By B. Keitt, C. Wilcox, B. Tershy, D. Croll, C. Donlan. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology

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1. C. Donlan
2. B. Tershy
3. B. Keitt
4. C. Wilcox
5. E. Vidal
6. M. Le Corre
7. E. Bonnaud
8. M. Louzao

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• Diversity, invasive species and extinctions in insular ecosystems (2008, background): “Second , both predators are known to prey on seabirds and their eggs when available , and land birds to a lesser extent ( Keitt et al .”
• Feral cat diet and impact on sooty terns at Juan de Nova Island, Mozambique Channel (2008, methodology): “Chick death due to adult mortality was incorporated into the model by multiplying reproductive success (F) by the probability of an adult tern surviving cat predation 1 (1 S6)(2) (Keitt et al., 2002).”
• The diet of feral cats on islands: a review and a call for more studies (2011, background): “The presence of the alternative prey items, rabbits or rats, means the feral cat population can sustain itself at a larger population throughout the year and thus cat impacts on native species are likely to be exacerbated via hyperpredation (Taylor 1979; Jones 2002; Keitt et al. 2002; Oro et al. 200”
• A Review of Feral Cat Eradication on Islands (2004, background): “On Natividad Island (Mexico), for example, Keitt et al. (2002) showed that a relatively small population of cats could have driven the population of approximately 75,000 Black-vented Shearwaters (Puffinus opisthomela) to local extinction in 10– 50 years.”
• Modelling demography and extinction risk in the endangered Balearic shearwater (2004, background): “, 2000), a problem that affects many faunas at oceanic islands, where most recent extinctions have occurred (e.g. Bloomer and Bester, 1992; Bibby, 1994; Huyser et al., 2000; Risbey et al., 2000; Keitt et al., 2002).”
• Feeding Ecology of a Feral Cat Population on a Small Mediterranean Island (2007, methodology): “For the wild rabbit, several studies on the diet of cats have suggested that feral cats prey principally upon juveniles (Jones 1977; Keitt et al. 2002; Mukherjee et al. 2004).”
• Cat eradication significantly decreases shearwater mortality (2003, methodology): “In our previous paper (Keitt et al., 2002) we used two methods to quantify shearwater predation by cats: (1) a direct count of shearwater mortality using carcass deposition rates; (2) an energetic approach whereby cat caloric intake was estimated from an allometric equation.”