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Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; Penny Fisher, Auteur ; John Cooper, Auteur ; John Parkes, Auteur ; Peter G. Ryan, Auteur ; Martin Slabber, AuteurPredation by introduced house mice Mus musculus on islands is one cause of decline in native birds and has deleterious impacts on other ecological aspects. Eradication of rats (Rattus spp.) from islands of up to > 10 000 ha has been achieved, bu[...]
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Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; Peter G. Ryan, Auteur ; Res Altwegg, Auteur ; Andrea Angel, Auteur ; John Cooper, Auteur ; Richard Cuthbert, Auteur ; Geoff M. Hilton, AuteurThe IUCN recently uplisted the Tristan albatross (Diomedea dabbenena) to Critically Endangered. Here we present new data indicating negative population trends on Gough Island arising from low adult survival (similar to 91%, ascribed to accidenta[...]
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John W. Wilson, Auteur ; Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; Marie-Helene Burle, Auteur ; Andrea Angel, Auteur ; Petrus Kritzinger, Auteur ; Barry Stead, AuteurWe investigated the breeding biology of the Brown Noddy Anous stolidus at its southern-most breeding locality, cold-temperate Gough Island (40 degrees S) in the South Atlantic Ocean. We monitored 19 nests over three seasons for breeding schedule[...]
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Philip A. R. Hockey, Auteur ; Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; Rainer von Brandis, AuteurSince 1600, a disproportionate number of avian extinctions have occurred among flightless and island-dwelling species. Some of these happened very rapidly, implying that such populations had low resilience to perturbation. In managing insular po[...]
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Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; Philip AR Hockey, Auteur
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Simon Valle, Auteur ; Nuno Barros, Auteur ; Ivan Ramirez, Auteur ; Ross M. Wanless, AuteurThe Tinhosas islands, in Sao Tome e Principe, host the most important seabird breeding colony in the Gulf of Guinea, but information on its conservation status was hitherto unpublished or anecdotal, the last assessment having been performed in 1[...]
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Richard Cuthbert, Auteur ; John Cooper, Auteur ; Marie-Helene Burle, Auteur ; Conrad J. Glass, Auteur ; James P. Glass, Auteur ; Simon Glass, Auteur ; Trevor Glass, Auteur ; Geoff M. Hilton, Auteur ; Erica S. Sommer, Auteur ; Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; Peter G. Ryan, AuteurPopulations of the recently split Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi are restricted to Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island in the South Atlantic, and Amsterdam and St Paul in the Indian Ocean. The majority of the population is in the At[...]
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Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; John W. Wilson, AuteurThe Gough Moorhen is endemic to Gough island and is classified by the IUCN as Threatened. We present several observations of Gough Moorhens preying on introduced House Mice Mus musculus and on eggs and chicks of burrow-nesting procellarifform se[...]
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Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ; John Cooper, Auteur ; Martin J. Slabber, Auteur ; Peter G. Ryan, AuteurContext. Aerial application of poison bait pellets is an established and widely used method for removing invasive rodents and restoring insular ecological processes. However, the non-target effects of saturation poisoning require very careful co[...]
