Beetle community changes following pest mammal control at two biodiversity sanctuaries in Wellington, New Zealand

References

• Aviss M, Roberts A 1994. Pest fences: notes and comments. Threatened Species Occasional Publication No. 5. Wellington, Department of Conservation. 42 p.
   Google Scholar
• Belbin L 1995. PATN: pattern analysis package. Technical reference. Canberra, CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology.
   Google Scholar
• Berndt L 1999. Karori wildlife sanctuary – permanent invertebrate sampling and rodent collection. Unpublished report. Wellington, Karori Sanctuary. 24 p.
   Google Scholar
• Berndt L, Berry C 1998. Karori Wildlife Sanctuary vegetation survey report. Unpublished report. Wellington, Karori Sanctuary. 72 p.
   Google Scholar
• Blackburn TM, Gaston K 2005. Biological invasions and bird losses on islands. In: Sax DF, Stachowicz JJ, Gaines SD eds. Species invasions: insights into ecology, evolution and biogeography. Sunderland, MA, Sinauer Associates. Pp. 84–110.
   Google Scholar
• Blick R, Bartholomew R, Burrell T, Burns KC 2008. Successional dynamics after pest eradication in the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. New Zealand Natural Sciences 33: 3–14.
   Google Scholar
• Bremner AG, Butcher CF, Patterson GB 1984. The density of indigenous invertebrates on three islands in Breaksea Sound, Fiordland, in relation to the distribution of introduced mammals. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 14: 379–386. 10.1080/03036758.1984.10421738
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brignall-Theyer ME 1998. Potential vertebrate predators of the Cromwell chafer beetle, Prodontria lewisi. Unpublished MSc thesis. Dunedin, New Zealand, University of Otago. 112 p.
   Google Scholar
• Bull RM 1967. A study of the large New Zealand weevil, Lyperobius huttoni Pascoe, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Molytinae). Unpublished MSc thesis. Wellington, New Zealand, Victoria University. 125 p.
   Google Scholar
• Burns B, Innes J, Day T 2012. The use and potential of pest-proof fencing for ecosystem restoration and fauna conservation in New Zealand. In: Hayward MW, Somers MJ eds. Fencing for conservation. New York, Springer. Pp. 65–90.
   Google Scholar
• Campbell DJ, Moller H, Ramsay GW, Watt JC 1984. Observations of foods of kiore (Rattus exulans) found in husking stations on northern offshore islands of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 7: 131–138.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clark JA, May RM 2002. Taxonomic bias in conservation research. Science 297: 191–192. 10.1126/science.297.5579.191b
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Craddock P 1997. The effect of rodent control on invertebrate communities in coastal forest near Auckland. Unpublished MSc thesis. Auckland, New Zealand, The University of Auckland. 132 p.
   Google Scholar
• Daugherty CH, Gibbs GW, Hitchmough RA 1993. Mega-island or micro-continent? New Zealand and its fauna. TREE 8: 437–442.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Day T, MacGibbon R 2007. Multiple-species exclusion fencing and technology for mainland sites. In: Witmer GW, Pitt WC, Fagerstone KA eds. Managing vertebrate invasive species. Proceedings of an International Symposium, USDA/APHIS/WS, National Wildlife Research Centre, Fort Collins, CO. Pp. 418–433.
   Google Scholar
• Faith DP, Minchin PR, Belbin L 1987. Compositional dissimilarity as a robust measure of ecological distance. Vegetatio 69: 57–68. 10.1007/BF00038687
   Google Scholar
• Fukami T, Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Mulder CPH, Towns DR, Yeates GW et al. 2006. Above- and below-ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird-dominated island ecosystems. Ecology Letters 9: 1299–1307. 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00983.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fuller S, Gorman N 1997. Karori wildlife sanctuary trust fence trials. National predator management workshop 1997. Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Conservation. Pp. 37–44.
   Google Scholar
• Gibbs GW 2009. The end of an 80-million year experiment: a review of evidence describing the impact of introduced rodents on New Zealand's ‘mammal-free’ invertebrate fauna. Biological Invasions 11: 1587–1593. 10.1007/s10530-008-9408-x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gibbs GW 2010. Do New Zealand invertebrates reflect the dominance of birds in their evolutionary history? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 34: 152–157.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gillies CA, Leach MR, Coad NB, Theobald SW, Campbell J, Herbert T et al. 2003. Six years of intensive pest mammal control at Trouson Kauri Park, a Department of Conservation ‘mainland island’, June 1996–July 2002. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 30: 399–420. 10.1080/03014223.2003.9518349
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green CJ 2002. Recovery of invertebrate populations on Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand following eradication of Pacific rats (Rattus exculans) (Abstract). In: Veitch CR, Clout MN eds. Turning the tide: the eradication of invasive species. IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, IUCNP. 407 p.
   Google Scholar
• Higgins PJ, Peter JM 2002. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, Vol. 6, Pardalotes to Shrike thrushes. Melbourne, Australia, Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Holdaway RN 1999. Introduced predators and avifaunal extinctions in New Zealand. In: MacPhee RDE ed. Extinctions in near time. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Pp. 189–238.
   Google Scholar
• Hudson GV 1934. New Zealand beetles and their larvae. An elementary introduction to the study of our native Coleoptera. Wellington, Ferguson and Osburn. 236 p.
   Google Scholar
• Hunt M, Sherley G, Wakelin M 1998. Results of a pilot study to detect benefits to large-bodied invertebrates from sustained regular poisoning of rodents and possums at Karioi, Ohakune. Science for Conservation 102. Wellington, Department of Conservation. 18 p.
   Google Scholar
• Hutcheson J 1999. Characteristics of Mapara insect communities as depicted by Malaise trapped beetles: changes with time and animal control. Science for Conservation 135. Wellington, Department of Conservation. 21 p.
   Google Scholar
• Innes J, Kelly D, Overton JM, Gillies C 2010. Predation and other factors currently limiting New Zealand forest birds. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 34: 86–114.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Innes J, Lee WG, Burns B, Campbell-Hunt C, Watts C, Phipps H et al. 2012. Role of predator-proof fences in restoring New Zealand's biodiversity: a response to Scofield et al. (2001). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 36: 232–238.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Innes J, Saunders A 2011. Eradicating multiple pests: an overview. In: Veitch CR, Clout MN, Towns DR eds. Island invasives: eradication and management. IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, IUCNP. Pp. 177–188.
   Google Scholar
• James HF 1995. Prehistoric extinctions and ecological changes on oceanic islands. In: Vitousek PM, Loope LL, Andersen H eds. Islands – biodiversity and ecosystem function. Berlin, Springer-Verlag. Pp. 87–102.
   Google Scholar
• Karori Sanctuary Trust 2008. Annual Report July 2007–June 2008. Wellington, New Zealand, Karori Sanctuary Trust.
   Google Scholar
• King CM. 2005. The handbook of New Zealand mammals. Melbourne, Oxford University Press. 610 p.
   Google Scholar
• King PA 2007. The effects of rodents on ground-dwelling arthropods in the Waitakere Ranges. Unpublished MSc thesis. Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology. 179 p.
   Google Scholar
• Klimaszewski J, Watt JC 1997. Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification. Fauna of New Zealand 37. Lincoln, NZ, Manaaki Whenua Press, 199 p.
   Google Scholar
• Kuschel G. 1990. Beetles in a suburban environment: a New Zealand case study. Wellington, NZ, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
   Google Scholar
• Lee W, McGlone M, Wright E 2005. Biodiversity inventory and monitoring. A review of national and international systems and a proposed framework for future biodiversity monitoring by the Department of Conservation. Landcare Research Contract Report: LC0405/122.
   Google Scholar
• Marra MJ 2007. Beetle records – late Pleistocene of New Zealand. In: Elias SA ed. Encyclopedia of Quaternary science. Elsevier, Amsterdam. Pp. 236–246.
   Google Scholar
• McGavin S 2009. Density and pair fidelity in a translocated population of North Island robin (Petroica longipes). Notornis 56: 206–212.
   Google Scholar
• Miller AP, Webb PI 2001. Diet of house mice (Mus musculus L.) on coastal sand dunes, Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 49–55. 10.1080/03014223.2001.9518256
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Minchin PR 1987. An evaluation of the robustness of techniques for ecological ordination. Vegetatio 69: 89–107. 10.1007/BF00038690
   Google Scholar
• Miskelly C, Empson R, Wright K 2005. Forest birds recolonising Wellington. Notornis 52: 21–26. 10.1007/BF00038690
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moles AT, Drake DR 1999. Potential contributions of the seed rain and seed bank to regeneration of native forest under pine plantation in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 83–93. 10.1080/0028825X.1999.9512615
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nelson L, Clark FW 1973. Correction for sprung traps in catch/effort calculations of trapping results. Journal of Mammalogy 54: 295–298. 10.2307/1378903
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• New TR 2012. Insect conservation: past, present and prospects. London, Springer. 435 p.
   Google Scholar
• Orchard BA, Cullis BR, Coombes NE, Virgona JM, Klein T 2000. Grazing management studies within the Temperate Pasture Sustainability Key Program: experimental design and statistical analysis. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 40: 143–154. 10.1071/EA98005
   Google Scholar
• Payne RW, Murray DA, Harding SA, Baird DB, Soutar DM 2010. An introduction to GenStat for windows. 13th edition. Hemel Hempstead, UK, VSN International.
   Google Scholar
• Powlesland RG 1981. The foraging behaviour of the South Island robin. Notornis 28: 89–102.
   Google Scholar
• Pyke GH, Pulliam HR, Charnov EL. 1977. Optimal foraging – a selective review of theory and tests. Quarterly Review of Biology 52: 137–154. 10.1086/409852
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ramsay GW 1978. A review of the effect of rodents on the New Zealand invertebrate fauna. In: Dingwall PR, Atkinson IAE, Hay C eds. The ecology and control of rodents in New Zealand Nature Reserves. Department of Lands and Survey Information Series 4. Wellington, Department of Lands and Survey. Pp. 89–98.
   Google Scholar
• Rate SR 2009. Does rat control benefit forest invertebrates at Moehau, Coromandel Peninsula? DOC Research & Development Series 316. Wellington, Department of Conservation. 25 p.
   Google Scholar
• Rufaut CG, Clearwater SG 1997. The response of lizards and invertebrates following eradication of kiore and weka from the Chetwode Islands. Nelson/Marlborough Conservancy Occasional Publication No. 41. Wellington, Department of Conservation. 25 p.
   Google Scholar
• Rufaut CG, Gibbs GW 2003. Response of a tree weta population (Hemideina crassidens) after eradication of the Polynesian rat from a New Zealand island. Restoration Ecology 11: 13–19. 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.00058.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ruscoe WA, Murphy EC 2005. House mouse. In: King CM ed. The handbook of New Zealand mammals. Melbourne, Oxford University Press. Pp. 204–221.
   Google Scholar
• Sinclair L, McCartney J, Godfrey J, Pledger S, Wakelin M, Sherley G 2005. How did invertebrates respond to eradication of rats from Kapiti Island, New Zealand? New Zealand Journal of Zoology 32: 293–315. 10.1080/03014223.2005.9518421
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Southwood TRE 1978. Ecological methods. 2nd edition. London, Chapman & Hall. 575 p.
   Google Scholar
• Speedy C, Day T, Innes J 2007. Pest eradication technology—the critical partner to pest exclusion technology: the Maungatautari experience. In: Witmer GW, Pitt WC, Fagerstone KA eds. Managing vertebrate invasive species: proceedings of an international symposium. Fort Collins, CO, USDA/APHIS/WS, National Wildlife Research Center. Pp. 115–126.
   Google Scholar
• Spurr EB 1996. Environmental effects of rodent Talon® baiting. Part 2: impacts on invertebrate populations. Science for Conservation 38. Wellington, Department of Conservation. Pp. 12–27.
   Google Scholar
• St Clair JJH 2011. The impacts of invasive rodents on island invertebrates. Biological Conservation 144: 68–81. 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Topping CJ, Sunderland KD 1992. Limitations to the use of pitfall traps in ecological studies exemplified by a study of spiders in a field of winter wheat. Journal of Applied Ecology 29: 485–491. 10.2307/2404516
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Towns DR, Wardle DA, Mulder CPH, Yeates GW, Fitzgerald BM, Parrish GR et al. 2009. Predation of seabirds by invasive rats: multiple indirect consequences for invertebrate communities. Oikos 118: 420–430. 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17186.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Aarde RJ, Ferreira SM, Wassenaar TD 2004. Do feral house mice have an impact on invertebrate communities on sub Antarctic Marion Island? Austral Ecology 29: 215–224. 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01341.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Verbyla AP, Cullis BR, Kenward MG, Welham SJ 1999. The analysis of designed experiments and longitudinal data by using smoothing splines. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 48: 269–311. 10.1111/1467-9876.00154
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Bonner KI, Mulder CPH 2009. Indirect effects of invasive predators on litter decomposition and nutrient resorption on seabird-dominated islands. Ecology 90: 452–464. 10.1890/08-0097.1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wardle DA, Bellingham PJ, Fukami T, Mulder CPH 2007. Promotion of ecosystem carbon sequestration by invasive predators. Biology Letters 3: 479–482. 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0163
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Watts CH, Armstrong DP, Innes J, Thornburrow D 2011. Dramatic increases in weta (Orthoptera) following mammal eradication on Maungatautari – evidence from pitfalls and tracking tunnels. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 35: 261–272.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Watts C, Empson R, Thornburrow D, Rohan M 2012. Movements, behaviour and survival of adult Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa; Anostostomatidae: Orthoptera) immediately after translocation as revealed by radiotracking. Journal of Insect Conservation 16: 763–776. 10.1007/s10841-012-9461-8
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson KJ 2004. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand's frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch, Canterbury University Press.
   Google Scholar