Discriminating the Drivers of Edge Effects on Nest Predation: Forest Edges Reduce Capture Rates of Ship Rats (Rattus rattus), a Globally Invasive Nest Predator, by Altering Vegetation Structure

• Jay Ruffell ,

  * E-mail: ruffell.jay@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

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• Raphael K. Didham,

  Affiliations School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Perth, Australia

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• Paul Barrett,

  Affiliation Wildlife Ecology Group, Te Kura Mātauranga o ngā Taonga ā Papatuanuku, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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• Nic Gorman,

  Affiliation Wildlife Ecology Group, Te Kura Mātauranga o ngā Taonga ā Papatuanuku, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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• Rhonda Pike,

  Affiliation Wildlife Ecology Group, Te Kura Mātauranga o ngā Taonga ā Papatuanuku, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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• Andrée Hickey-Elliott,

  Affiliation Wildlife Ecology Group, Te Kura Mātauranga o ngā Taonga ā Papatuanuku, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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• Karin Sievwright,

  Affiliation Wildlife Ecology Group, Te Kura Mātauranga o ngā Taonga ā Papatuanuku, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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• Doug P. Armstrong

  Affiliation Wildlife Ecology Group, Te Kura Mātauranga o ngā Taonga ā Papatuanuku, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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