Seabird population changes following mammal eradication at oceanic Saint-Paul Island, Indian Ocean

• Published in: Journal for Nature Conservation
• Main Authors: Barbraud, Christophe, Delord, Karine, Le Bouard, Fabrice, Harivel, Roald, Demay, Jérémie, Chaigne, Adrien, Micol, Thierry
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Réserve Naturelle Nationale des Terres Australes Françaises, TAAF, Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Rats; Island restoration; Petrels; Population growth rate; Shearwaters; Terns; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Indian; Saint-Paul; Amsterdam Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Brown Skua; Rattus rattus; Saint-Paul Island; Sterna vittata
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03350341; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126049

International audience The eradication of invasive mammals on islands is important for protecting seabird populations and insular ecosystems. However, the impacts of such eradications are insufficiently known because monitoring of potentially beneficiary species is often sporadic and limited. We per...