Do feral house mice have an impact on invertebrate communities on sub-Antarctic Marion Island?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-224

  Van Aarde, R J ^a   Ferreira, S M ^a,b   Wassenaar, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Invasive species; Mus domesticus; Predation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INVERTEBRATE; PREDATION; RODENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MARION ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS;

INVERTEBRATA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 2342593226     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01341.x     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Addo-Bediako A., Chown S. L., Gaston K. J. (2000) Thermal tolerance, climatic variability and latitude. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267, 739-45.
2. Anon. (1996) Prince Edwards Islands Management Plan. Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Pretoria.
3. Atkinson I. A. E. (1989) Introduced animals and extinctions. In: Conservation for the Twenty-First Century (eds D. Westerns & M. C. Pearl) pp. 54-75. Oxford University Press, New York.
4. Bale J. S., Masters G. J., Hodkinson I. D. et al. (2002) Herbivory in global climate change research: direct effects of rising temperature on insect herbivores. Glob. Change Biol. 8, 1-16.
5. Beaumont L. J. & Hughes L. (2002) Potential changes in the distributions of latitudinally restricted Australian butterfly species in response to climate change. Glob. Change Biol. 8, 954-71.
6. Bergstrom D. M. & Chown S. L. (1999) Life at the front: history, ecology and change on southern ocean islands. TREE 14, 472-7.
7. Berry R. J., Peters J., van Aarde R. J. (1978) Sub-Antarctic house mice: colonization, survival and selection. J. Zool. Lond. 184, 127-41.
8. Bester M. N., Bloomer J. P., Bartlett P. A., Muller D. D., van Rooyen M., Buchner H. (2000) Final eradication of feral cats from sub-Antarctic Marion Island, southern Indian Ocean. S. Afr. J. Wildl. Res. 30, 53-7.
9. Burger A. E. (1978) Terrestrial invertebrates: a food resource for birds at Marion Island. S. Afr. J. Antarct. Res. 8, 87-99.
10. Chown S. L., Gremmen N. J. M., Gaston K. J. (1998) Ecological biogeography of southern ocean islands: Species-area relationships, human impacts, and conservation. Am. Nat. 152, 562-75.
11. Chown S. L. & Smith V. R. (1993) Climate change and the short-term impact of feral house mice at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. Oecologia 96, 508-16.
12. Clarke K. R. (1993) Non-parametric multivariate analyses of changes in community structure. Aust. J. Ecol. 18, 117-43.
13. Cottingham K. L., Brown B. L., Lennon J. T. (2001) Biodiversity may regulate the temporal variability of ecological systems. Ecol. Lett. 4, 72-85.
14. Crafford J. E. (1990) The role of feral house mice in ecosystem functioning on Marion Island. In: Antarctic Ecosystems. Ecological Change and Conservation. Proceedings 5th SCAR Biology Symposium; 29 August-3 September 1988, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (eds K. R. Kerry & G. Hempel) pp. 359-64. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
15. Crafford J. E. & Scholtz C. H. (1987) Quantitative differences between the insect faunas of sub-Antarctic Marion and Prince Edward Islands: a result of human intervention? Biol. Cons. 40, 255-62.
16. Gleeson J. P. & van Rensburg P. J. J. (1982) Feeding ecology of the house mouse Mus musculus on Marion Island. S. Afr. J. Antarct. Res. 12, 34-9.
17. Gremmen N. J. M. (1981) The Vegetation of the Sub-Antarctic Islands Marion and Prince Edward. D. R. W. Junk, The Hague.
18. Gremmen N. J. M. (1997) Changes in the vegetation of sub-Antarctic Marion Island resulting from introduced vascular plants. In: Antarctic Communities (eds B. Badaglia, F. Valencia & D. W. H. Walton) pp. 417-23. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
19. Gremmen N. J. M., Chown S. L., Marshall D. J. (1998) Impact of the introduced grass Agrostis stolonifera on vegetation and soil fauna communities at Marion Island, sub-Antarctic. Biol. Cons. 85, 223-31.
20. Hänel C. (1999) The distribution and abundance of macroinvertebrates in the major vegetation communities of Marion Island and the impact of alien species. MSc Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
21. Huyser O., Ryan P. G., Cooper J. (2000) Changes in population size, habitat use and breeding biology of lesser sheathbills (Chionis minor) at Marion Island: impacts of cats, mice and climate change? Biol. Cons. 92, 299-310.
22. Klok C. J. & Chown S. L. (1997) Critical thermal limits, temperature tolerance and water balance of a sub-Antarctic caterpillar, Pringleophaga marioni (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). J. Insect Physiol. 43, 685-94.
23. Klok C. J. & Chown S. L. (2001) Critical thermal limits, temperature tolerance and water balance of a sub-Antarctic kelp fly, Paractora dreuxi (Diptera: Helcomyzidae). J. Insect Physiol. 47, 95-109.
24. Ludwig J. A. & Reynolds J. F. (1988) Statistical Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
25. Marshall D. J. & Chown S. L. (1995) Temperature effects on locomotor activity rates of sub-Antarctic oribatid mites. Polar Biol. 15, 47-9.
26. Masters G. J., Brown V. K., Clarke I. P., Whittaker J. B., Hollier J. A. (1998) Direct and indirect effects of climate change on insect herbivores: Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera). Ecol. Entomol. 23, 45-52.
27. Matthewson D. C., van Aarde R. J., Skinner J. D. (1994) Population biology of house mouse (Mus musculus L.) on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. S. Afr. J. Zool. 29, 99-106.
28. Nachman M. W. & Searle J. B. (1995) Why is the house mouse karyotype so variable? TREE 10, 397-402.
29. Ortiz M. (2002) Optimum sample size to detect perturbation effects: The importance of statistical power analysis - a critique. Mar. Ecol. 23, 1-9.
30. Rowe-Rowe D. T., Green B., Crafford J. E. (1989) Estimated impact of feral house mice on sub-Antarctic invertebrates at Marion Island. Polar Biol. 9, 457-60.
31. Smith B. & Wilson J. B. (1996) A consumer's guide to evenness indices. Oikos 76, 70-82.
32. Smith V. R. (1987) The environment and biota of Marion Island. S. Afr. J. Sci. 83, 211-20.
33. Smith V. R. (1992) Surface air temperature at Marion Island, sub-Antarctic. S. Afr. J. Sci. 88, 575-8.
34. Smith V. R., Avenant N. L., Chown S. L. (2002) The diet and impact of house mice on a sub-Antarctic island. Polar Biol. 25, 703-15.
35. Smith V. R. & Steenkamp M. (1990) Climatic change and its ecological implications at a subantarctic island. Oecolagia 85, 14-24.
36. Smith V. R. & Steenkamp M. (1993) Macroinvertebrates and peat nutrient mineralization on a sub-Antarctic island. S. Afr. J. Bot. 59, 106-8.
37. Sokal R. R. & Rohlf F. J. (1995) Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research, 3rd edn. W.H. Freeman, New York.
38. van Aarde R. J. (1980) The diet and feeding behaviour of feral cats, Felis catus at Marion Island. S. Afr. J. Widl. Res. 10, 123-8.
39. van Aarde R. J. (1983) Demographic parameters of the feral cat Felis catus population at Marion Island. S. Afr. J. Wildl. Res. 13, 2-16.
40. van Aarde R. J., Ferreira S. M., Wassenaar T. D., Erasmus D. G. (1996) With the cats away the mice may play. S. Afr. J. Sci. 92, 357-8.
41. Van Zinderen Bakker E. M. Sr, Winterbottom J. M., Dyer R. A. (1971) Marion and Prince Edward Islands: Report on the South African Biological and Geological Expedition 1965-1966. A.A. Balkema, Cape Town.
42. Williams A. J. (1978) Mineral and energy contributions of petrels (Procellariformes) killed by cats, to the Marion Island terrestrial ecosystem. S. Afr. J. Antarct. Res. 8, 49-53.