Dramatic increase in the Zembretta Yelkouan shearwater breeding population following ship rat eradication spurs interest in managing a 1500-year old invasion
| Autor: | Awatef Abiadh, Damien Fourcy, Michel Pascal, Karen Bourgeois, Sylvain Dromzée, Ridha Ouni |
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| Přispěvatelé: | A dos d'îles, 101 Val de Sibourg, Association for the study and conservation of insular biodiversity, Laboratoire d'écologie animale, Campus Universitaire El Manar I, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Écologie et santé des écosystèmes (ESE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, PIM Initiative (Petites Iles de Mediterranée) & Tunisian agency APAL (Agence de Protection et d'Aménagement du Littoral), Faculté des Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles de Tunis (FST), Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM)-Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
mediterranean island shearwater Population Zoology Introduced species macromolecular substances 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Shearwater ship rat rattus rattus puffinus yelkouan Invasive species eradication Seasonal breeder IUCN Red List 14. Life underwater education Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics geography education.field_of_study geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology biology old invasion 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology biology.organism_classification Archipelago Puffinus yelkouan [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology yelkouan |
| Zdroj: | Biological Invasions Biological Invasions, Springer Verlag, 2013, 15, pp.475-482. ⟨10.1007/s10530-013-0419-x⟩ Biological Invasions, Springer Verlag, 2013, 15, pp.475-482. ⟨10.1007/s10530-013-0419-x ⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1387-3547 1573-1464 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10530-013-0419-x⟩ |
| Popis: | The ship rat (Rattus rattus) was introduced 1,500 years ago to the Zembra Archipelago (Tunisia) and was eradicated in October-November 2009 on two of its islands, Zembretta and Zembrettina. This eradication was performed 2 years after the discovery of a small colony of Yelkouan shearwaters (Puffinus yelkouan), a species recently up-listed to the vulnerable IUCN extinction risk category. For 2 years before and 3 years after rat eradication, the Zembretta Yelkouan shearwater breeding colony was checked yearly at the end of the breeding season. The number of recorded breeding pairs reaching 176 and 145, respectively, increases of 10.4 and 8.5-fold two and 3 years after rat eradication. This experiment shows that eradication of an ancient introduced ship rat population has dramatically improved the Zembretta Yelkouan shearwater breeding population very quickly. This result suggests that managing even long-introduced populations might well be fruitful. |
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