Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) on Frégate Island, Seychelles: the invasion; subsequent eradication attempts and implications for the island's fauna

By M. Thorsen, R. Shorten, R. Lucking, V. Lucking. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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In Ecology

1. James C. Russell
2. M. Clout
3. D. Towns
4. G. Witmer
5. J. M. Hoare
6. K. Hare
7. M. Nogales
8. B. Clapperton

In Genetics

1. A. Traveset
2. M. Nogales
3. D. Towns
4. James C. Russell
5. F. Courchamp

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of brodifacoum on non-target wildlife: gaps in knowledge (2006, background): “Two snail species, Pachnodus silhouettanus and Achatina fulica, from Frégate Island, Seychelles suffered mortality as a result of exposure to doses of 0.01 to 0.2 mg and 0.04 mg of brodifacoum, respectively, over a 72–h period and brodifacoum is likely to be lethal to another snail, Pachystyla bicol”
• Testing island biosecurity systems for invasive rats. (2008, background): “Rats had recently been eradislands where they have never been (Thorsen et al. 2000; icated from all three islands. We then assessed the performance Pitman et al. 2005) and from which they have previously been eradicated (Burbidge 2004; Clout and Russell 2006).”
• Rats dying for mice: Modelling the competitor release effect (2007, background): “Such a removal generally involves trapping and poisoning, both of which lack specificity, especially among rodents (Thorsen et al. 2000; Donlan et al. 2003).”
• Review of rat invasion biology: implications for island biosecurity. (2008, methodology): “Models should be calibrated on both unintentional (e.g. Thorsen et al. 2000) and experimental (e.g. Russell et al. 2005) invasion events.”
• A review on the effects of alien rodents in the Balearic (Western Mediterranean Sea) and Canary Islands (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) (2009, background): “The late arrival of R. norvegicus into the Balearics and Canaries seems to have had a more limited impact on the ecology of these islands, despite its strong impact on other island ecosystems has been extensively reported (e.g., Thorsen et al. 2000; Towns et al. 2006).”
• A review of the current knowledge of rodent behaviour in relation to control devices. (2006, background): “Thorsen, M.; Shorten, R.; Lucking, R.; Lucking, V. 2000: Norway rats on Frégate Island, Seychelles: the invasion; subsequent eradication attempts and implications for the island’s fauna.”
• Importance of Assessing Population Genetic Structure before Eradication of Invasive Species: Examples from Insular Norway Rat Populations (2005, background): “Although many eradication campaigns have succeeded, some have failed (Thorsen et al. 2000).”