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title: "Rats!  The New Zealand Journal of Ecology publishes a special issue on restoring seabird islands"
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# Rats!  The New Zealand Journal of Ecology publishes a special issue on restoring seabird islands

The [New Zealand Journal of Ecology](http://newzealandecology.org/) has published a special issue ([Vol 40, No. 2; 2016](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/j40_2)) containing eight open-access papers that discuss the roles of rats on seabird islands, including a number that support breeding populations of procellariiforms.

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 Black Petrels: endemic to New Zealand

 The authors and titles of these papers follow.  Click on the downloads to obtain the texts.

 Elizabeth Bell, Brian Bell & Don Merton. [The legacy of Big South Cape: rat irruption to rat eradication](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3260).  [Download pdf (3.06 MB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3260.pdf).

 Grant Harper & Malcolm Rutherford.  [Home range and population density of black rats (*Rattus rattus*) on a seabird island: a case for a marine subsidised effect?](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3261)  [Download pdf (625.94 KB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3261.pdf).

 Judith Robins, Steven Miller, James Russell, Grant Harper & Rachel Fewster. David Towns, Stephanie Borrelle, Joshua Thoresen, Rachel Buxton & Annette Evans.  [Where did the rats of Big South Cape Island come from?](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3262)  [Download pdf (1.53 MB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3262.pdf).

 David Towns, Stephanie Borrelle, Joshua Thoresen, Rachel Buxton & Annette Evans.   [Mercury Islands and their role in understanding seabird island restoration](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3263) [Download pdf (514.63 KB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3263.pdf).

 Imogen Bassett, Jeff Cook, Finlay Buchanan & James Russell.  [Treasure Islands: biosecurity in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3264).  [Download pdf (2.3 MB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3264.pdf).

 Alysha Bagasra, Helen Nathan, Mark Mitchell & James Russell.  [Tracking invasive rat movements with a systemic biomarker](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3265).  [Download pdf (481.11 KB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3265.pdf).

 Keith Springer.  [Methodology and challenges of a complex multi-species eradication in the sub-Antarctic and immediate effects of invasive species removal](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3266). [Download pdf (5.17 MB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3266.pdf).

 Rowley Taylor.  [Early ecological research on rodents in New Zealand, 1946–1976: personal recollections](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3259).  [Download pdf (2.42 MB)](http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3259.pdf).

 The papers were first presented at the [50th Anniversary of Rodent Eradications in New Zealand Symposium](http://www.science.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/rateradication.html), held at the University of Auckland in September 2014.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 15 January 2015*