Assessing the potential to restore historic grazing ecosystems with tortoise ecological replacements

© 2013 Society for Conservation Biology.

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Veröffentlicht in:Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. - 1999. - 27(2013), 4 vom: 10. Aug., Seite 690-700
1. Verfasser: Griffiths, Christine J (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Zuël, Nicolas, Jones, Carl G, Ahamud, Zairabee, Harris, Stephen
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Forrajeo ecological replacements grazing herbívoro no-nativo invasional meltdown theory non-native herbivore reemplazos ecológicos restauración mehr... restoration rewilding sustitución de taxón taxon substitution teoría de la crisis invasiva tortoises tortugas terrestres
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520 |a The extinction of large herbivores, often keystone species, can dramatically modify plant communities and impose key biotic thresholds that may prevent an ecosystem returning to its previous state and threaten native biodiversity. A potentially innovative, yet controversial, landscape-based long-term restoration approach is to replace missing plant-herbivore interactions with non-native herbivores. Aldabran giant (Aldabrachelys gigantea) and Madagascan radiated (Astrochelys radiata) tortoises, taxonomically and functionally similar to the extinct Mauritian giant tortoises (Cylindraspis spp.), were introduced to Round Island, Mauritius, in 2007 to control the non-native plants that were threatening persistence of native species. We monitored the response of the plant community to tortoise grazing for 11 months in enclosures before the tortoises were released and, compared the cost of using tortoises as weeders with the cost of using manual labor. At the end of this period, plant biomass; vegetation height and cover; and adult, seedling, flower, and seed abundance were 3-136 times greater in adjacent control plots than in the tortoise enclosures. After their release, the free-roaming tortoises grazed on most non-native plants and significantly reduced vegetation cover, height, and seed production, reflecting findings from the enclosure study. The tortoises generally did not eat native species, although they consumed those native species that increased in abundance following the eradication of mammalian herbivores. Our results suggest that introduced non-native tortoises are a more cost-effective approach to control non-native vegetation than manual weeding. Numerous long-term outcomes (e.g., change in species composition and soil seed bank) are possible following tortoise releases. Monitoring and adaptive management are needed to ensure that the replacement herbivores promote the recovery of native plants 
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