Responses of seabirds to the rabbit eradication on Ile Verte, sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Archipelago

• Published in: Animal Conservation
• Main Authors: Brodier, S., Pisanu, B., Villiers, Alexandre, Pettex, E., Lioret, M., Chapuis, J.L., Bretagnolle, Vincent
• Other Authors: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Biology, University of Turku
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Ile Verte; Kerguelen; The Antarctic; Verte; Antarc*; Antarctic prion; Brown Skua; Catharacta skua; Pachyptila desolata
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00644357; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2011.00455.x

International audience Studies on the role of introduced rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus, on islands have mainly focused on their negative impacts on vegetation. However, little attention has been paid to their influence on vertebrate communities. On Ile Verte (148 ha) in the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen...