Mammal-exclusion fencing improves the nesting success of an endangered native Hawaiian waterbird.

ABSTRACT: Invasive predator control is often critical to improving the nesting success of endangered birds, but methods of control vary in cost and effectiveness. Poison-baiting or trapping and removal are relatively low-cost, but may have secondary impacts on non-target species, and may not completely exclude mammals from nesting areas. Mammal-exclusion fencing has a substantial up-front cost, but due to cost savings over the lifetime of the structure and the complete exclusion of mammalian predators, this option is increasingly being utilized to protect threatened species such as ground-nesting seabirds. However, non-mammalian predators are not excluded by these fences and may continue to impact nesting success, particularly in cases where the fence is designed for the protection of waterbirds, op

SUBMITTER: Christensen DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7931714 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature