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Seabird islands take mere decades to recover following rat eradication
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Jones, Holly P.

2010
Islands house a majority of the world’s biodiversity and are thus critical for biodiversity conservation. Seabird nesting colonies provide nutrients that are integral to maintain island biodiversity and ecosystem function. Invasive rats destroy seabi
Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico Island Conservation - preventing extinctions
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Desecheo Island supports important populations of plants, as well as animals found nowhere else in the world such as the Desecheo Anole, Desecheo Ameiva, and Desecheo Dwarf Gecko. Before the introduction of invasive rats, the island hosted large colo
Introduced rats indirectly change marine rocky intertidal communities from algae- to invertebrate-dominated
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Kurle, Carolyn M.

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Croll, Donald A.

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Tershy, Bernie R.

2008
It is widely recognized that trophic interactions structure ecological communities, but their effects are usually only demonstrated on a small scale. As a result, landscape-level documentations of trophic cascades that alter entire communities are s
The Rangitoto and Motutapu pest eradication - a feasibility study.
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Griffiths, Richard.

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Towns, David.

2008
The eradication of the seven remaining animal pest species remaining on Rangitoto and Motutapu was announced by the Prime Minister and Minister of Conservation in June 2006. With stoats, cats, hedgehogs, rabbits, mice and two species of rats spread a
Climate change, sea-level rise, and conservation : keeping island biodiversity afloat
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Courchamp, Franck.

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Russell, James C.

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Hoffmann, Benjamin D.

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Leclerc, Camille.

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Bellard, Celine.

2014
Island conservation programs have been spectacularly successful over the past five decades, yet they generally do not account for impacts of climate change. Here, we argue that the full spectrum of climate change, especially Island conservation progr
Ecological and socioeconomic impacts of invasive alien species in island ecosystems.
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Jamie K Reaser

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Laura A Meyerson

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Quentin Cronk

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Maj De Poorter

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L.G. Eldrege

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Edmund Green

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Moses Kairo

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Pepetua Latasi

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Richard N. Mack

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John Mauremootoo

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Dennis O'dowd

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Warea Orapa

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Soetikno Sastroutomo

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Alan Saunders

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Clare Shine

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Sigurdur Thrainsson

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Leliua Vaiutu

2007
Minimizing the impact of invasive alien species (IAS) on islands and elsewhere requires researchers to provide cogent information on the environmental and socioeconomic consequences of IAS to the public and policy makers. Unfortunately, this informat
Invasive Alien Species and Climate Change - International Union for Conservation of Nature Issues Brief November 2017
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2017
Invasive alien species (IAS) are animals, plants or other organisms that are introduced into places outside their natural range, negatively impacting native biodiveristy, ecosystem services or human well-being. IAS are one of the biggest causes of bi
Evaluating Ecosystem-Based Adaptation For Disaster Risk Reduction In Fiji
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Pike Brown ? Adam Daigneault ? David Gawith ? William Aalbersberg ? James Comley ? Patrick Fong ? Fraser Morgan

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, cyclones, and tropical depressions cause average annual direct losses of US$284 million in the Pacific. With a combined population of fewer than 10 million people, annual losses are the highest in the world on a
Background Paper Number 2: The Potential for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the Pacific Islands.
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2012
This report examines the role of the ecosystem services in reducing the vulnerability of the people of the Pacific Islands to climate change. Specifically, it describes the decision-making frameworks and the current state of knowledge of specific eco
Climate Change & Invasive Species : a review of interactions, workshop report
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Low, Tim

2008
On 20 November 2006 the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee (BDAC), whose role it was to advise the then Australian Government Minister for the Environment and Heritage, held a one day workshop in Canberra on climate change and invasive species’

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