Rats and Seabirds Project - What's New
October 2006 - We have now completed most of the analysis. While many parts of our hypotheses were not supported, which is itself interesting, our data nevertheless indicate that rats and seabirds act as major ecosystem drivers by exerting wide-ranging effects on both above- and below-ground biota via multiple complex pathways. The first publication from this work will appear soon in the journal Ecology Letters:
Fukami, T., Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Mulder, C. P. H., Towns, D. R., Yeates, G. W., Bonner, K. I., Durrett, M. S., Grant-Hoffman, M. N. & Williamson, W. M. (2006) Above- and below-ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird-dominated island ecosystems. Ecology Letters, in press.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this paper, please e-mail Tad at tfukami hawaii.edu (put @ between tfukami and hawaii.edu). Stay tuned as there will be more publications to come from this project.
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| Mussel farm and shags wishing us luck (we hope) on our way to fieldwork, Western Coromandel (T. Fukami) |