Cat eradication significantly decreases shearwater mortality

By B. Keitt, B. Tershy. 2003

123 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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In Ecology

1. C. Donlan
2. K. Campbell
3. B. Tershy
4. B. Keitt
5. C. Wilcox
6. M. Le Corre
7. E. Bonnaud
8. Sebastien Jaquemet

In Genetics

1. C. Donlan
2. K. Campbell
3. C. Wilcox
4. M. Nogales
5. E. Vidal
6. F. M. Medina
7. E. Bonnaud

Citations in the corpus

• Feral Cats and Biodiversity Conservation: The Urgent Prioritization of Island Management (2013, background): “Feral cat eradications have led to rapid positive effects on native species (Drake et al. 2011), especially seabirds (Cooper et al. 1995, Bester et al. 2002, Keitt and Tershy 2003, Hughes et al. 2008, Ratcliffe et al. 2010, Smith et al. 2010).”
• Bird demographic responses to predator removal programs (2010, unknown): “1992), while other populations have dramatically increased in numbers following predator removal (Donlan et al. 2007; Keitt and Tershy 2003; Rayner et al. 2007).”
• The eradication of feral cats from Ascension Island and its subsequent recolonization by seabirds (2010, background): “Removing cats from affected islands can benefit seabirds by reducing mortality (Keitt & Tershy, 2003; Rodriguez et al., 2006; Peck et al., 2008), allowing recolonization of areas from which they were extirpated (Hänel & Chown, 1998; Wolf, 2002) and population recovery (Cooper et al., 1995).”
• The diet of feral cats on islands: a review and a call for more studies (2011, background): “Eradicating cats from islands can protect native species from the threat of extinction (Keitt and Tershy 2003; Nogales et al. 2004; Ratcliffe et al. 2009) and research on the ecology of insular feral cats can improve the efficacy and prioritization of cat eradications, particularly when (i) complex…”
• A Review of Feral Cat Eradication on Islands (2004, background): “After cats were eradicated (Wood et al. 2002), fewer than 100 shearwaters were found dead on the colony each month (Keitt & Tershy 2003).”
• Feral cat diet and impact on sooty terns at Juan de Nova Island, Mozambique Channel (2008, background): “Despite this, detailed information on the impact of cats, the temporal dynamics of predation and the viability of seabird populations sustaining cat predation is scarce (but see Ashmole, Ashmole & Simmons, 1994; Keitt et al., 2002; Keitt T Mart ´ inez-G ´ omez & Jacobsen, 2004).”
• Diversity, invasive species and extinctions in insular ecosystems (2008, background): “The accumulation of pre - eradication impact and post - eradication recovery studies provide some support for the alleged biodiversity benefits of invasive mammal eradications ( Keitt & Tershy 2003 ; Donlan & Heneman 2007 ) .”
• Seabird population changes following mammal eradications on islands (2018, background): “…following eradication, breeding success can be enhanced either via an increase in hatching success and/or an increase in fledging success (Cooper et al., 1995; Towns & Broome, 2003; Rayner et al., 2007) while adult survival may also improve (Keitt & Tershy, 2003; Williams, Byrd & Konyukhov, 2003).”