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Dead neonatal mice are currently used as bait for delivery of toxin to invasive brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) on Guam; once deployed in the field the mice are highly attractive to the snakes but only for about four days. An artificial bait containing a mixture of fats mimicking those in skin of the mice is also highly attractive to the snake...
Rodent eradications have contributed to the recovery of many threatened species, but challenges often exist for campaigns that occur on tropical islands when compared to more temperate regions. A post-operational review of a rat eradication operation on Wake Atoll indicated that certain areas, such as those with high alternative food abundance, may...
Successful eradications of rats from islands are paying
tremendous conservation dividends, but failed eradications
are economically and environmentally costly. For
an eradication using rodenticides, every rat in every
habitat must have adequate access to the product and
must consume sufficient quantities over enough time to
become lethally intoxica...
The brown treesnake (Boiga irregularis) was accidentally introduced to Guam in the 1940s from the Admiralty Islands. A native of Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, the brown treesnake (BTS) continues to threaten the economy and ecology of Guam and is currently the subject of a cooperative program to control snake populations on t...
Between 21 March 2015 and 2 April 2015, we collected
69 whole-body fish tissue samples from Wake Atoll to
test for: 1) residues of the anticoagulant rodenticide
brodifacoum, potentially resulting from a 2012 rat eradication
attempt involving hand- and aerially-broadcast
brodifacoum pellets, and 2) the potentially toxic metals
beryllium, vanadium, c...
Background:
Boiga irregularis is a widespread invasive species on Guam and has led to extirpation of most of the island's native avifauna. There are presently no microsatellite markers for this invasive species, hence we developed highly polymorphic microsatellite markers to allow for robust population genetic studies on Guam.
Findings:
We isola...
