Ecological effects and distribution of invasive non-native mammals on the Canary Islands Page 1
Mammal Rev. 2006, Volume 36, No. 1, 49–65. Printed in Singapore. © 2006 Mammal Society …

Introduced rats are now being eradicated from many islands. Increasingly, these
eradications are contested by activists claiming moral, legal, cultural, historic or scientific …

Minimizing the impact of invasive alien species (IAS) on islands and elsewhere requires
researchers to provide cogent information on the environmental and socioeconomic …

Humans' impacts on natural environments have become pervasive, and natural
regeneration is often hampered by extreme soil degradation. This situation is exacerbated in …

Inputs of energy and nutrients from one ecosystem may subsidize consumers in adjacent
ones, with significant consequences for local communities and food webs. We used stable …

Seabirds are the most threatened group of marine animals; 29% of species are at some risk
of extinction. Significant threats to seabirds occur on islands where they breed, but in many …

Islands harbor a disproportionate amount of the earth's biodiversity, but a significant portion
has been lost due in large part to the impacts of invasive mammals. Fortunately, invasive …

Insular breeding seabirds are likely to be particularly vulnerable to introduced mammalian
predators because they often lack behavioural, morphological and life-history defenses …

Native only to the California Channel Islands, the island fox is the smallest canid in North
America. Populations on four of the islands were threatened to extinction in the 1990s due to …

Dit proefschrift is het resultaat van een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de populatiedynamica
van Zilvermeeuwen en Kleine Mantelmeeuwen in de westelijke Waddenzee, opgezet zodat …