Invasive Predators in New Zealand Disaster on Four Small Paws /

• Main Author: King, Carolyn M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
• Subjects: Islands of the Pacific-History.; World history.; History.; Animal ecology.; Social history.; Environmental geography.; Australasian History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Science.; Animal Ecology.; Social History.; Environmental Geography.

The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand's endemic fauna evolved in isolation unti...

Table of Contents:

• I. The Years before Cook
• 1. Introduction (82 million years ago to AD 1280)
• 2. The Māori Era (1280-1769)
• II. The Years of Accidental Invasions
• 3. Reconstructing Invasion Histories from European Shipping Records (1769-1900) and Genetics (since 2000)
• 4. European Rats (1769)
• 5. House Mice (since about 1792)
• 6. Cats (1769-1900)
• III. The Years of Deliberate Introductions
• 7. Rabbits (1858-1900)
• 8. Ferrets (1852-1892)
• 9. Stoats and Weasels (1876-1883)
• 10. Stoats and Weasels (1883-1892)
• 11. Lucky Escapes and Nasty Surprises (1884-1920)
• IV. What Now?
• 12. Hard Lessons in Pest Management (1976-2019).