Indirect effects of invasive rat removal result in recovery of island rocky intertidal community structure

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Kurle, Carolyn M., Zilliacus, Kelly M., Sparks, Jenna, Curl, Jen, Bock, Mila, Buckelew, Stacey, Williams, Jeffrey C., Wolf, Coral A., Holmes, Nick D., Plissner, Jonathan, Howald, Gregg R., Tershy, Bernie R., Croll, Donald A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
• Subjects: Article; Hawadax Island; Norway; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7940711/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33686134; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84342-2

Eleven years after invasive Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) were eradicated from Hawadax Island, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, the predicted three-level trophic cascade in the rocky intertidal, with native shorebirds as the apex predator, returned, leading to a community resembling those on rat-f...