Araceli Samaniego-Herrera

TL;DR: The global benefits of an increasingly used conservation action to stem biodiversity loss: eradication of invasive mammals on islands are estimated to be 107 highly threatened birds, mammals, and reptiles on the IUCN Red List—6% of all these highly threatened species—likely have benefitted from invasive mammal eradications on islands.

TL;DR: Island conservation in western México provides an effective approach that can be readily applied to other archipelagos where conservation efforts have been limited, and is a result of an operational model with three main components.

TL;DR: A workshop was convened with 34 experts in rat eradication, tropical rodent and island ecology and toxicology, focusing on projects using aerial broadcast of brodifacoum, a 2nd generation anticoagulant, because this approach has provided the highest success rate for eradicating rodents from islands.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used detection and home-range parameters obtained from a capture-recapture study completed prior to aerial baiting to build a spatial-survey model that predicts probability of eradication after the treatment.

TL;DR: It is found that monitoring an island for survivors over 15–20 nights is optimal and that waiting longer than a year before commencing monitoring has a negligible impact on the estimated probability of success, so island eradication managers routinely implement REA on small islands to accelerate eradication confirmation and to accelerate island restoration.