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Battling Invasive Species in the Pacific: Outcomes of the Regional GEF-PAS IAS Project Prevention, control and management of invasive species in the Pacific islands
Available Online

SPREP

2016
Pacific islands intimately connect land and sea. Rats, cats, and other invasive species quickly destroy these links, particularly by predating on native forest seeds, forest birds, sea birds, and other vital ecosystem components. Effective management
Beyond Kapiti - A decade of invasive rodent eradications from New Zealand islands.
Available Online

Keith Broome

2011
New Zealand, an archipelago of more than 2000 islands, has a terrestrial fauna especially depauperate in native land mammals. Kiore (Rattus exulans) was the first of four rodent species introduced by people. A project to eradicate invasive rats from
Dietary shift of an invasive predator: rats, seabirds and sea turtles
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Caut, Stéphane

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Angulo, Elena

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Courchamp, Franck

2008
This article is a study on the dietary shift of black rats on Surprise Island, New Caledonia and their impact on the ecosystem in the presence and absence of breeding seabirds.
Land vertebrates as invasive species on the islands of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme.

Atkinson, I A E

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Atkinson, T J

1999
This review of the invasive land vertebrates present on islands of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) region is part of a larger review of the invasive plants and animals that have affected these islands adversely.
Kerala: Flood-hit India state battles rat fever outbreak
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2018
BBC website news article - Flood hit South Indian state of Kerala 11 people died of leptospirosis; After floods expect to see water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid, diarrhoea, hepatitis and rat fever
The legacy of Big South Cape: rat irruption to rat eradication
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Bell, Elizabeth A.

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Bell, Brian D.

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Merton, Don V.

2016
Big South Cape Island (Taukihepa) is a 1040 ha island, 1.5 km from the southwest coast of Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand. This island was rat-free until the incursion of ship rats (Rattus rattus) in, or shortly before, 1963, suspected to have be
Valuing the impact of selected invasive species in the Polynesia-Micronesia hotspot, final report
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Daigneault, Adam

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Brown, Pike

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Greenhalgh, Suzie

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Boudjelas, Souad

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Mather, John

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Nagle, William

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Aalbersberg, Bill

2013
Invasive species pose an enormous threat in the Pacific: not only do they strongly affect biodiversity, but they also potentially affect the economic, social, and cultural wellbeing of Pacific peoples. Invasive species can potentially be managed and
Killing rats could save coral reefs
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Gill, Victoria

Short website news article about rat eradication on Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean and how bird populations increase without rat predation increasing nutrients from bird guano into the coral reefs; cites letter article in Springer Nature - Seabir
Survival analysis of two endemic lizard species before, during and after a rat eradication attempt on Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico
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Herrera-Giraldo, J.L.

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Figuerola-Hernández, C.E.

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Holmes, N.D.

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Swinnerton, K.

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Bermúdez-Carambot, E.N.

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González-Maya, J.F.

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Gómez-Hoyos, D.A.

2019
Rodent eradications are a key island restoration activity to counteract extinction and endangerment to native species. Despite the widespread use of brodifacoum as a rodenticide for island restoration, there has been little examination of its potenti
Conservation gains and missed opportunities 15 years after rodent eradications in the Seychelles
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Millett, J.E.

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Accouche, W.

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van de Crommenacker, J.

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van Dinther, M.A.J.A.

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de Groene, A.

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Havemann, C.P.

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Retief, T.A.

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Appoo, J.

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Bristol, R.M.

2019
The Seychelles was one of the first tropical island nations to implement island restoration resulting in biodiversity gain. In the 2000s a series of rat eradication attempts was undertaken in the inner Seychelles islands which had mixed results. Thre

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