Eradications as reverse invasions: lessons from Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) removals on New Zealand islands

By D. Towns. Biological Invasions, 2009

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Review of negative effects of introduced rodents on small mammals on islands (2009, methodology): “This hypothesis is yet to be tested through the provision of better evidence, from experiments and eradication/control programmes (e.g. Towns 2008).”
The impacts of invasive rodents on island invertebrates (2011, background): “Furthermore, a key feature of manipulative designs (eradication, control and exclosure) is that they can only test responses to rodent removal among the subset of species which were able to persist after the initial rodent invasion – in other words, the approach can not detect responses among specie”
New Zealand island restoration: seabirds, predators, and the importance of history (2010, background): “An invasion by ship rats (Rattus rattus) on Taukihepa (Big South Cape Island; southern Stewart Island) in 1964 saw the most recent extinctions of New Zealand-endemic vertebrates, including the last populations of bush wren (Xenicus longipes) and greater short-tailed bat (Mysticina robusta) (Bell 197”
Invasive rodents on islands: integrating historical and contemporary ecology (2009, background): “ Towns 2008 ). Controlled field and experimental research, crossreferenced with palaeoecological data, will be critical”