PAPER: Management of mammal invasions in forests

The ecology and management of mammal invasions in forests

March 2017

Latham ADM, Warburton B, Byrom AE, Pech RP 2017. The ecology and management of mammal invasions in forests. Biological Invasions 19(11): 3121-3139.

ABSTRACT

Here we (1) review the ecological characteristics of mammal invasions in forests; (2) characterize the range of ecological impacts on forest communities and the economic consequences of those impacts; (3) review what is known about interactions between the impacts of invasive mammals and other drivers of global change; and (4) consider the complex ecological and socio-economic challenges of simultaneously managing multiple invasive mammals and native biota affected by them.

KEYWORDS

Global change; Herbivory; Impacts; Indigenous ecosystems; Introduced species; Predation