Experimental evidence that feral cats cause local extirpation of small mammals in Australia's tropical savannas

By Anke S. K. Frank, Christopher N. Johnson, Joanne Potts, A. Fisher, M. Lawes, J. Woinarski, K. Tuft, I. Radford, I. Gordon, Mary-Anne Collis and 1 more. 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia (2015, background): “In a first translocation of 77 individuals, rats in the cat-accessible plots were rapidly extirpated due to predation by cats, while rats in the cat-proof plots persisted (Frank et al. 2014).”
Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “Frank et al. (2014) conducted an enclosure study in Australia to evaluate population persistence of the native long- haired rat (Rattus villosissimus) under predator- accessible and predator- proof treatments.”
Catastrophic cat predation: A call for predator profiling in wildlife protection programs (2015, background): “Populations of native Australian rats,Rattus villosisimus and Rattus tunneyi, reintroduced to Wongalara in the Northern Territory, were hunted to extinction soon after release in 2012 and 2014 respectively, believed by only one or two individual cats at each site (Frank et al., 2014; Tuft et al., 20”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “One recent controlled experiment in northern Australia (beyond the range of the fox), found that a reintroduced native rodent, Rattus villosissimus, persisted in study sites at which cats were excluded but was rapidly eliminated from paired sites to which cats had access (75).”
Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia’s tropical savannas (2016, background): “…that feral cat predation is facilitated by high-intensity fire to the detriment of small-mammal species (Woinarski et al. 2011a; Fisher et al. 2013; Frank et al. 2014; McGregor et al. 2015), by showing that mortality due to predation increased post-fire, that cats increased their use of recently…”