Invasive mammals are the greatest threat to island biodiversity and invasive rodents are
likely responsible for the greatest number of extinctions and ecosystem changes …

Islands harbour much of the world's threatened biodiversity. Recent work has highlighted
how it is not species diversity per se but rather the interactions between organisms that …

Extinctions have altered island ecosystems throughout the late Quaternary. Here, we review
the main historic drivers of extinctions on islands, patterns in extinction chronologies …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Seabirds are apex predators in the marine environment and well-known ecosystem
engineers, capable of changing their terrestrial habitats by introducing marine-derived …

Eradication of invasive alien species from islands is often necessary to protect native biota.
The rapidity in which eradication projects are implemented can help reduce risk they will fail …

We argue that the introduction of non‐native extant tortoises as ecological replacements for
extinct giant tortoises is a realistic restoration management scheme, which is easy to …

ABSTRACT Since European colonisation of Australia in 1788, nine Australian bird species
(1.2% of the Australian total) have become extinct, along with 22 subspecies (of 16 species) …

Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss, but no study has described the
scope of threats to bats (Chiroptera) by invasive species. We reviewed the literature for …

Background The Janzen-Connell model states that plant-specific natural enemies may have
a disproportionately large negative effect on progeny close to maternal trees. The majority of …