scholarly journals Rapid Microsatellite Marker Development Using Next Generation Pyrosequencing to Inform Invasive Burmese Python—Python molurus bivittatus—Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 4793-4804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Hunter ◽  
Kristen Hart
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. e01154
Author(s):  
Nélida Padilla-García ◽  
Teresa Malvar-Ferreras ◽  
Josie Lambourdière ◽  
M. Montserrat Martínez-Ortega ◽  
Nathalie Machon

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Georgi ◽  
Roberto H. Herai ◽  
Ramon Vidal ◽  
Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle ◽  
Gonçalo Guimarães Pereira ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1805) ◽  
pp. 20150120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. McCleery ◽  
Adia Sovie ◽  
Robert N. Reed ◽  
Mark W. Cunningham ◽  
Margaret E. Hunter ◽  
...  

To address the ongoing debate over the impact of invasive species on native terrestrial wildlife, we conducted a large-scale experiment to test the hypothesis that invasive Burmese pythons ( Python molurus bivittatus ) were a cause of the precipitous decline of mammals in Everglades National Park (ENP). Evidence linking pythons to mammal declines has been indirect and there are reasons to question whether pythons, or any predator, could have caused the precipitous declines seen across a range of mammalian functional groups. Experimentally manipulating marsh rabbits, we found that pythons accounted for 77% of rabbit mortalities within 11 months of their translocation to ENP and that python predation appeared to preclude the persistence of rabbit populations in ENP. On control sites, outside of the park, no rabbits were killed by pythons and 71% of attributable marsh rabbit mortalities were classified as mammal predations. Burmese pythons pose a serious threat to the faunal communities and ecological functioning of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, which will probably spread as python populations expand their range.


2007 ◽  
Vol 174 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosario Preziosi ◽  
Alessia Diana ◽  
Daniela Florio ◽  
Andrea Gustinelli ◽  
Giordano Nardini

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1400119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily M. Badgley ◽  
Lisa C. Grubisha ◽  
Anna K. Roland ◽  
Bryan A. Connolly ◽  
Matthew R. Klooster

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