Predation of seabirds by invasive rats: multiple indirect consequences for invertebrate communities

By D. Towns, David A. Wardle, C. Mulder, G. Yeates, B. Fitzgerald, G. Parrish, P. Bellingham, Karen I. Bonner. 2009

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New Zealand island restoration: seabirds, predators, and the importance of history (2010, background): “Reduced soil resources on rat-invaded islands has resulted in reduced microbial CO2 production and reduced densities of soil organisms, notably herbivorous and microbe-feeding nematodes, collembola and minute land snails (Fukami et al. 2006; Towns et al. 2009).”
Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context (2017, background): “The net consequence of rat invasion is large reductions in soil nutrient levels, soil microfauna and macrofauna, plant nutrient supply and uptake, and litter decomposability (Fukami et al. 2006; Towns et al. 2009; Wardle et al. 2009).”
Legacy of avian-dominated plant-herbivore systems in New Zealand (2010, unknown): “…by seabirds are undoubtedly incorporated into the wider ecosystem (Hawke & Holdaway 2005; Holdaway et al. 2007), and definitely drive ecosystem processes on small offshore islands (e.g. Mulder & Keall 2001; Fukami et al. 2006), including the composition of invertebrate faunas (Towns et al. 2009).”
A review of the evidence for potential impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) on wildlife and humans in Australia (2012, background): “In turn, these changes in soil properties have reduced the abundance and diversity of a wide range of above- and below-ground invertebrate groups (Fukami et al. 2006; Towns et al. 2009).”
Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 11. Rattus rattus, the Black Rat (Rodentia: Muridae) (2014, background): “…of indirect effects of rats on island ecosystems is reported from a group of 18 offshore islands in northern New Zealand, where half of the islands were rat-free at the time of the study (Fukami et al. 2006, Wardle et al. 2007, 2009, Mulder et al. 2009, Towns et al. 2009, Peay et al. 2013).”
Fifty years of rodent eradications in New Zealand: another decade of advances (2016, background): “Throughout the early 21st century the Rats And Seabird Project (RASP) used rat invasions of islands in the Hauraki Gulf as a large-scale natural experiment to investigate the impacts of rat invasion, particularly seabird extirpation, on ecosystem processes (Fukami et al. 2006; Mulder et al. 2009; To”
The impacts of invasive rodents on island invertebrates (2011, background): “, 2009), and reduced abundance of many below- and above-ground invertebrate groups (including minute land snails, springtails, rotifers, centipedes, ants, moths, amphipods and various vermiform taxa) attributable to the effects of ratmediated seabird declines on soil characteristics (Fukami et al., ”