Elsa Bonnaud

TL;DR: Feral cats on islands are responsible for at least 14% global bird, mammal, and reptile extinctions and are the principal threat to almost 8% of critically endangered birds, mammals, and reptiles.

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: This work outlines here 24 specificities and problems of this discipline and categorizes them into four groups: understanding, alerting, supporting, and implementing the issues associated with invasive alien species, and offers solutions to tackle these problems and push the field forward.

TL;DR: The first new addition to the widely cited IUCN list of “100 of the world’s worst invasive species”, a list created a decade ago, is presented, with giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) chosen by the community of invasion biologists.

TL;DR: The role of feral cats in the context of the island biodiversity crisis is examined, by combining data from reviews of trophic studies, species conservation status reports, and eradication campaigns to identify priority islands where feral cat eradications are likely to be feasible and where cats are predicted to cause the next vertebrate extinctions.