Reporting costs for invasive vertebrate eradications.

摘要: The eradication of invasive species from islands is a conservation intervention proven to protect biodiversity, with more than 1200 successful vertebrate eradications implemented globally. demand for projects increasing and practitioners are planning on increasingly larger, remote technically challenging islands. Undertaking strategic requires information both the cost benefit proposed actions, determine trade-off in selecting one project over another. To date disparately reported literature, an artefact different reporting requirements based where was undertaken, scale project, implementing agency its accountabilities, inconsistency all component costs. Eradication have characteristics that allow refined forecasting relative other initiatives, including narrow set major techniques being used, defined beginning end point, distinct components. Here we present centres projects, dataset suite rodent, ungulate predator eradications, using 46 primarily New Zealand, Ecuador USA. We found increased island size types except ground rodent eradications. Using these standards report costs will improve ability evaluate predict removing animals native insular biodiversity.