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Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, September 2016
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Title
Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, September 2016
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1602480113
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Authors

Tim S. Doherty, Alistair S. Glen, Dale G. Nimmo, Euan G. Ritchie, Chris R. Dickman

Abstract

Invasive species threaten biodiversity globally, and invasive mammalian predators are particularly damaging, having contributed to considerable species decline and extinction. We provide a global metaanalysis of these impacts and reveal their full extent. Invasive predators are implicated in 87 bird, 45 mammal, and 10 reptile species extinctions-58% of these groups' contemporary extinctions worldwide. These figures are likely underestimated because 23 critically endangered species that we assessed are classed as "possibly extinct." Invasive mammalian predators endanger a further 596 species at risk of extinction, with cats, rodents, dogs, and pigs threatening the most species overall. Species most at risk from predators have high evolutionary distinctiveness and inhabit insular environments. Invasive mammalian predators are therefore important drivers of irreversible loss of phylogenetic diversity worldwide. That most impacted species are insular indicates that management of invasive predators on islands should be a global conservation priority. Understanding and mitigating the impact of invasive mammalian predators is essential for reducing the rate of global biodiversity loss.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Bulgaria 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 1424 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 240 17%
Student > Bachelor 226 16%
Student > Master 215 15%
Researcher 163 11%
Other 61 4%
Other 173 12%
Unknown 367 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 505 35%
Environmental Science 314 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 50 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 32 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 16 1%
Other 101 7%
Unknown 427 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3949. 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 27 March 2024.
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Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#36
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#7
of 315,629 outputs
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#3
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