Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands
In the Mediterranean, the survival of endemic long-lived seabirds despite the long-standing introduction of one of the most damaging alien predator, the ship rat (Rattus rattus), on most islands constitutes an amazing conservation paradox. A database gathering information on approximately 300 Wester...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/99088 2024-02-11T10:08:12+01:00 Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands Ruffino, Lise Bourgeois, Karen Vidal, Éric Duhem, Céline Paracuellos, Mariano Escribano, F. Sposimo, Paolo Baccetti, Nicola Pascal, Michel Oro, Daniel 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/99088 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-008-9394-z unknown Kluwer Academic Publishers doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9394-z issn: 1387-3547 Biological Invasions 11(7): 1631-1651 (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/99088 none Rattus rattus Procellariiformes Mediterranean Islands Introduced predators Coexistence artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2009 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-008-9394-z 2024-01-16T09:59:48Z In the Mediterranean, the survival of endemic long-lived seabirds despite the long-standing introduction of one of the most damaging alien predator, the ship rat (Rattus rattus), on most islands constitutes an amazing conservation paradox. A database gathering information on approximately 300 Western Mediterranean islands was analyzed through generalized linear models to identify the factors likely to influence ship rat presence and to account for how ship rat presence and island characteristics may have driven the presence and abundance of seabirds. Our review showed that few Mediterranean islands remain rat-free. At the regional scale, rat presence was only a limiting factor in the abundance of the smallest seabird, the storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus), while the distribution and abundance of the three shearwaters were more influenced by island characteristics. We hypothesized that the long-term persistence of these seabirds may have been facilitated by the various biogeographical contexts of Mediterranean islands, likely to provide intra-island refuges. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Rattus rattus Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Biological Invasions 11 7 1631 1651 |
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Rattus rattus Procellariiformes Mediterranean Islands Introduced predators Coexistence Ruffino, Lise Bourgeois, Karen Vidal, Éric Duhem, Céline Paracuellos, Mariano Escribano, F. Sposimo, Paolo Baccetti, Nicola Pascal, Michel Oro, Daniel Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands |
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In the Mediterranean, the survival of endemic long-lived seabirds despite the long-standing introduction of one of the most damaging alien predator, the ship rat (Rattus rattus), on most islands constitutes an amazing conservation paradox. A database gathering information on approximately 300 Western Mediterranean islands was analyzed through generalized linear models to identify the factors likely to influence ship rat presence and to account for how ship rat presence and island characteristics may have driven the presence and abundance of seabirds. Our review showed that few Mediterranean islands remain rat-free. At the regional scale, rat presence was only a limiting factor in the abundance of the smallest seabird, the storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus), while the distribution and abundance of the three shearwaters were more influenced by island characteristics. We hypothesized that the long-term persistence of these seabirds may have been facilitated by the various biogeographical contexts of Mediterranean islands, likely to provide intra-island refuges. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Peer Reviewed |
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Ruffino, Lise Bourgeois, Karen Vidal, Éric Duhem, Céline Paracuellos, Mariano Escribano, F. Sposimo, Paolo Baccetti, Nicola Pascal, Michel Oro, Daniel |
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Ruffino, Lise Bourgeois, Karen Vidal, Éric Duhem, Céline Paracuellos, Mariano Escribano, F. Sposimo, Paolo Baccetti, Nicola Pascal, Michel Oro, Daniel |
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Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands |
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Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands |
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Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands |
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Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands |
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Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands |
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invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on mediterranean islands |
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