Abstract Aotearoa—New Zealand has only four rodent species, all introduced. In order of
arrival, they are Pacific rat Rattus exulans, brown rat R. norvegicus, house mouse Mus …

The goal to make New Zealand predator-free by 2050 has drawn strong praise and criticism,
but these critiques have focused largely on economic or technological feasibility of long-term …

Abstract The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) and the Socio-
Economic Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (SEICAT) have been proposed to provide …

Urbanization, and the drastic loss of habitat it entails, poses a major threat to global avian
biodiversity. Ecological restoration of urban forests is therefore increasingly vital for native …

Conservation volunteering aims to benefit species and ecosystems, but whether positive
collective social outcomes exist for conservation group participants is largely unknown. To …

Invasive mammal eradications are increasingly attempted across large, complex
landscapes. Sequentially controlled management zones can be at risk of reinvasion from …

Effective mitigation of the impacts of invasive ship rats (Rattus rattus) requires a good
understanding of their ecology, but this knowledge is very sparse for urban and peri-urban …

New Zealand faces significant ecological problems caused by the introduction of a variety of
invasive small mammal species. Many of these species originate from temperate to subarctic …

To cure a patient's cancer is to eradicate invasive cells from the ecosystem of the body.
However, the ecologic complexity of this challenge is not well understood. Here we show …

Predator naivety negatively affects reintroduction success, and this threat is exacerbated
when prey encounters predators with which they have had no evolutionary experience …