2023年5月19日
・矢原徹一・鷲谷いづみ『改訂版保全生態学入門』が5月8日に出版されました。
・矢原が理事をつとめる一般社団法人九州オープンユニバーシティ（QOU）では、『保全生態学入門』の改訂ポイントを解説する「QOU保全生態学セミナー」を実施しています。
・5月19日17時から実施する第四回では、『保全生態学入門』改訂版第7章のうち「7-1.生物学的侵入とその影響」の改訂ポイントについて解説します。今回は、外来種問題についてアクティブに研究されている亘悠哉さんがコメンテーターとして参加してくださいます。
・保全生態学に関心がある方はどなたでも参加できますが、とくに保全生態学の研究に従事している大学院生の参加をお待ちしています。
以下の文献1と2はセミナーで紹介．
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文献１
Review and synthesis of the global literature on domestic cat impacts on wildlife
J. Animal Ecology
Abstract
- A vast global literature documents that free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) have substantial negative effects on wildlife, including through predation, fear, disease and competition-related impacts that have contributed to numerous wildlife extinctions and population declines worldwide. However, no study has synthesized this literature on cat impacts on wildlife to evaluate its overarching biases and major gaps.
- To direct future research and conservation related to cat impacts on wildlife, we conducted a global literature review that entailed evaluation and synthesis of patterns and gaps in the literature related to the geographic context, methods and types of impacts studied.
- Our systematic literature search compiled 2245 publications. We extracted information from 332 of these meeting inclusion criteria designed to ensure the relevance of studies analysed.
- This synthesis of research on cat impacts on wildlife highlights a focus on oceanic islands, Australia, Europe, and North America, and on rural areas, predation, impacts of unowned cats, and impacts at population and species levels. Key research advances needed to better understand and manage cat impacts include more studies in underrepresented, highly biodiverse regions (Africa, Asia, and South America), on cat impacts other than predation, and on methods designed to reduce impacts on wildlife.
- The identified areas of needed research into cat impacts
on wildlife will be critical to further clarifying the role of cats in
global wildlife declines and to implementing science-driven policy and
management that benefit conservation efforts.
Our Wild Companions: Domestic cats in the Anthropocene
- PMID: 32396814
- DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.008
Abstract
Cats share a long history with humans but are remarkable among domesticated species in largely retaining behavioural and reproductive independence from people. In many societies, the cat maintains liminal status as both a domestic and a wild animal. An adaptive push-and-pull between wild and domestic traits corresponds with dual roles as companions and pest controllers, and with conflicted treatment in husbandry, management, law, and public discourse. To move forward, we must proceed by understanding that cats are not exclusively pets or pests, but both a central component of human societies and an important, often adverse, influence on ecosystems. Developing a collaborative 'companion animal ecology', in which human-animal domestic relations link to ecological processes, will enable sustainable management of this wild companionship.
Keywords: cats; companion animal ecology; conservation conflict; domestication; feral cats; invasive species.
Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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