2016
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12306
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Movement Behavior of Native and Invasive Small Mammals Shows Logging May Facilitate Invasion in a Tropical Rain Forest

Abstract: Invasive species pose one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. This study investigates the extent to which human disturbance to natural ecosystems facilitates the spread of non‐native species, focusing on a small mammal community in selectively logged rain forest, Sabah, Borneo. The microhabitat preferences of the invasive Rattus rattus and three native species of small mammal were examined in three‐dimensional space by combining the spool‐and‐line technique with a novel method for quantifying fine‐scale h… Show more

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“…Although we focussed on the distribution and movement of native small mammal species at the forest-plantation edge, we also found no evidence that forest harbours elevated abundance of the invasive R. exulans and R. rattus. Both species were present across all our forest trap lines, which supports previous evidence that they can competitively invade logged forest (Cusack et al, 2015;Loveridge et al, 2016;Wearn et al, 2016Wearn et al, , 2017. However, capture rates of neither species differed from the plantation control site at any distance.…”
Section: Invasive Small Mammals Across the Gradientsupporting
confidence: 88%
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“…Although we focussed on the distribution and movement of native small mammal species at the forest-plantation edge, we also found no evidence that forest harbours elevated abundance of the invasive R. exulans and R. rattus. Both species were present across all our forest trap lines, which supports previous evidence that they can competitively invade logged forest (Cusack et al, 2015;Loveridge et al, 2016;Wearn et al, 2016Wearn et al, , 2017. However, capture rates of neither species differed from the plantation control site at any distance.…”
Section: Invasive Small Mammals Across the Gradientsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…We set traps at dusk, and processed captures between 21:00 and 22:00, remaining >50 m away from the grid during the intervening period to minimise disturbance. To track released small mammals, we used a spool-and-line device following Loveridge et al (2016). We covered an industrial nylon cocoon bobbin (Danfield Ltd, Lancashire, UK) with a cling film wrapping to ensure that it unravels and detaches cleanly, and then wrapped it with cloth tape and attached it to the back of the small mammal using cyanoacrylate glue.…”
Section: Spool-and-line Trackingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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