Photo and video technology has become increasingly useful in the study of avian nesting
ecology. However, researchers interested in using camera systems are often faced with …

Despite long‐held concerns about the effects of researchers on breeding birds, few studies
have focused on the impact of investigators on Procellariiformes. In this review, we …

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

Recent archaeological research has fundamentally altered our understanding of the scope
of past human impacts on nondomesticated animal populations. Predictions derived from …

At 270,000 km2, New Zealand is one-thirtieth the area of Australia, one-third that of
Madagascar, twice that of Cuba, and comparable in area to the British Isles, to the …

Recruitment of tree populations on islands with and without Rattus exulans Peale, and
recruitment changes on islands before and after rat eradication are compared using size …

Invasive rodent species have established on 80% of the world's islands causing significant
damage to island environments. Insular ecosystems support proportionally more biodiversity …

Although rats have clearly contributed to bird extinctions on islands, their role in plant
extinctions is not as clear. Paleoenvironmental studies suggest rats were responsible for the …

In 1767, Captain Samuel Wallis of HMS Dolphin made the first recorded European contact
with the people of Tahiti. Much of the crew was ill with scurvy. A highborn Tahitian who …

While the morphological identification of prey remains in predators' faeces is the most
commonly used method to study trophic interactions, many studies indicate that this method …