5/19/2023 0 Comments Rats by robert sullivan summary![]() ![]() Pervasive to affect ecosystem structure and function. Effects of rats on forest trees and seabird populations are sufficiently Including small mammals such as deer mice and bats. Globally, ship rats were associated with declines or extinctions of the largest number of indigenous vertebrate species (60), On islands off France, Norway rats are also implicated in declines of shrews. Reptiles, land birds, and burrowing seabirds. rattus) suppress some forest plants, and are associated with extinctions or declines of flightless invertebrates, ground-dwelling These and the more recently introduced Norway Intensive studies have been on the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans), a small South-East Asian species spread by Polynesians throughout the Pacific. Local manipulations of rat populations, video surveillance, and measurements of responses following eradications. Of rat eradications and many detailed and innovative studies of how rats affect native species. We then used New Zealand as a case study because of its four-decade history On the effects of rats on island flora and fauna. Moral, legal, cultural, historic or scientific reasons and poorly documented evidence of effects. Increasingly, these eradications are contested by activists claiming Introduced rats are now being eradicated from many islands. ![]()
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