Invasive Urban Mammalian Predators: Distribution and Multi-Scale Habitat Selection.

ABSTRACT: A barrier to successful ecological restoration of urban green spaces in many cities is invasive mammalian predators. We determined the fine- and landscape-scale habitat characteristics associated with the presence of five urban predators (black and brown rats, European hedgehogs, house mice, and brushtail possums) in three New Zealand cities, in spring and autumn, in three green space types: forest fragments, amenity parks, and residential gardens. Season contributed to variations in detections for all five taxa. Rodents were detected least in residential gardens; mice were detected more often in amenity parks. Hedgehogs were detected least in forest fragments. Possums were detected most often in forest fragments and least often in residential gardens. Some of this variation was explained

SUBMITTER: Miller KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9598248 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature