Patterns of recovery in extant and extirpated seabirds after the world's largest multipredator eradication

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Authors: Bird, Jeremy P., Fuller, Richard A., Shaw, Justine D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic prion; Macquarie Island; Pachyptila desolata; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14239

Abstract Eradicating invasive predators from islands can result in substantial recovery of seabirds, but the mechanisms that drive population changes remain poorly understood. Meta‐analyses have recently revealed that immigration is surprisingly important to the recovery of philopatric seabirds, but...