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| Title |
Marsh rabbit mortalities tie pythons to the precipitous decline of mammals in the Everglades
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2015.0120 |
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| Authors |
Robert A. McCleery, Adia Sovie, Robert N. Reed, Mark W. Cunningham, Margaret E. Hunter, Kristen M. Hart |
| Abstract |
To address the ongoing debate over the impact of invasive species on native terrestrial wildlife, we conducted a large-scale experiment to test the hypothesis that invasive Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) were a cause of the precipitous decline of mammals in Everglades National Park (ENP). Evidence linking pythons to mammal declines has been indirect and there are reasons to question whether pythons, or any predator, could have caused the precipitous declines seen across a range of mammalian functional groups. Experimentally manipulating marsh rabbits, we found that pythons accounted for 77% of rabbit mortalities within 11 months of their translocation to ENP and that python predation appeared to preclude the persistence of rabbit populations in ENP. On control sites, outside of the park, no rabbits were killed by pythons and 71% of attributable marsh rabbit mortalities were classified as mammal predations. Burmese pythons pose a serious threat to the faunal communities and ecological functioning of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, which will probably spread as python populations expand their range. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 32 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 31% |
| India | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 69% |
| Scientists | 8 | 25% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 152 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 4% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Guatemala | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 144 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 15% |
| Researcher | 20 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 13% |
| Unknown | 34 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 64 | 42% |
| Environmental Science | 33 | 22% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 1% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 10 | 7% |
| Unknown | 34 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 192. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2023.
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