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Aguirre Muñoz, A.J., B. Creel, J. Carranza, E. Enkerlin Hoeflich, C. García Gutiérrez, L.M. Luna Mendoza, B. Keitt, J.A. Sánchez Pacheco, and B.R. Tershy (2003). Propuesta para el establecimiento del área natural protegida "Reserva de la Biósfera de Isla Guadalupe." Estudio técnico justificativo. Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C., Ensenada, B.C., México.

Aguirre Muñoz, A., C. García Gutiérrez, B. Keitt, J.A. Sánchez Pacheco, and B. Tershy (2003). Propuesta para el establecimiento del área natural protegida "Reserva de la Biósfera de las Islas del Pacífico de Baja California." Estudio técnico justificativo. Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C, Ensenada, B.C., México.

Donlan, C.J. (2000). Islands and introduced herbivores: using conservation to investigate top- down and bottom-up processes. M.S. Thesis. University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

Donlan, C.J., D.A. Croll, and B.R. Tershy (2003). Islands, exotic herbivores, and invasive plants: their roles in coastal California restoration. Restoration Ecology 11(4): 524-530.

Donlan, C.J., G.R. Howald, B.R. Tershy, and D.A. Croll (2003). Evaluating alternative rodenticides for island conservation: roof rat eradication from the San Jorge Islands, Mexico. Biological Conservation 114(1): 29-34

Donlan, C.J. and P.S. Martin (2004). The role of ecological history in invasive species management and conservation. Conservation Biology 18: 267-269

Donlan, C.J. and P.A. Nelson (2002). Observations of invertebrate colonized flotsam in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, with a discussion of rafting. Bulletin of Marine Science 72(1): 231-240.

Donlan, C.J., B.R. Tershy, K. Campbell, and F. Cruz (2003). Research for requiems: the need for more collaborative action in eradication of invasive species. Conservation Biology 17(6): 1850-1851.

Donlan, C.J., B.R. Tershy, and D.A. Croll (2002). Islands and introduced herbivores: conservation action as ecosystem experimentation. Journal of Applied Ecology 39: 235-246.

Donlan, C.J., B.R. Tershy, B.S. Keitt, B. Wood, J.A. Sanchez, A. Weinstein, D.A. Croll, and J.L. Aguilar (2000). Island conservation action in northwest Mexico. Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium. 330-338.

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Howald, G. (1997). The risk of non-target species poisoning from brodifacoum used to eradicate rats from Langara Island, British Columbia, Canada. M.S. Thesis in Animal Science. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

Howald, G.R., P. Mineau, J.E. Elliott, and K.M. Cheng (1999). Brodifacoum poisoning of avian scavengers during rat control on a seabird colony. Ecotoxicology 8(6): 431-447.

Kaiser, G.W., R.H. Taylor, P.D. Buck, J.E. Elliott, G.R. Howald, and M.C. Dever (1997). The Langara islands seabird habitat recovery project: eradication of Norway rats - 1993-1997. Technical Report Series No. 304, Canadian Wildlife Service, Pacific and Yukon Region, British Columbia.

Keitt, B. S. (2000). Status of the Xantus' Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus) on the islands of Baja California, México. Report.

Keitt, B.S. (1998). Ecology and conservation biology of the Black-Vented Shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas) on Natividad Island, Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Baja California Sur, México. M.S. Thesis. University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

Keitt, B.S., D.A. Croll, and B.R. Tershy (2000). Dive depth and diet of the Black-Vented Shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas). Auk 117(2): 507-510.

Keitt, B.S. and B.R. Tershy (2003). Cat eradication significantly decreases shearwater mortality. Animal Conservation 6: 307-308

Keitt, B., B. Tershy, and D.A. Croll (2003). Breeding biology and conservation of the Black- Vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas. Ibis 145: 673-680.

Keitt, B.S., B.R. Tershy, and D.A. Croll (2000). Black-Vented Shearwater: Puffinus opisthomelas. Birds of North America 521: 1-16.

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Keitt, B.S., C. Wilcox, B.R. Tershy, D.A. Croll, and C.J. Donlan (2002). The effect of feral cats on the population viability of Black-Vented Shearwaters (Puffinus opisthomelas) on Natividad Island, México. Animal Conservation 5: 217-223.

Nogales, M., A. Martín, B.R. Tershy, C.J. Donlan, D. Veitch, N. Puerta, B. Wood, and J. Alonso (2004). A review of feral cat eradication on islands. Conservation Biology 18(2): 310-319.

Roemer, G. W. and C. J. Donlan (2004). Biology, policy and law in endangered species conservation: I. The case history of the Island Fox on the Northern Channel Islands. Endangered Species UPDATE 21(1): 23-31.

Roemer, G.W., C.J. Donlan, and F. Courchamp (2002). Golden eagles, feral pigs, and insular carnivores: How exotic species turn native predators into prey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99(2): 791-796.

Tershy, B.R., C.J. Donlan, J.A. Sanchez Pacheco, B. Wood, G. Howald, M.A. Hermosillo, and N. Biavaschi (2002). Island conservation in north-west Mexico: a conservation model integrating research, education, and exotic mammal eradication. In C.R. Veitch and M.N. Clout (eds.) Turning the tide: the eradication of invasive species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Wolf, S. (2002). The relative status and conservation of island breeding seabirds in California and Northwest Mexico. M.S. Thesis in Marine Sciences. University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA.

Wolf, S., J.E. Roth, and W.J. Sydeman (2000). Population size, phenology and productivity of seabirds on Santa Barbara Island, 1999. Final report to Channel Islands National Park, Ventura CA.

Wood, B., B.R. Tershy, M.A. Hermosillo, C.J. Donlan, J.A. Sanchez, B.S. Keitt, D.A. Croll, G.R. Howald, G.R., and N. Biavaschi (2002). Removing cats from islands in northwest Mexico. In C.R. Veitch and M.N. Clout (eds.) Turning the tide: the eradication of invasive species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.




POPULAR PUBLICATIONS:

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Donlan, C.J. and T. Comendant (2003). Getting rid of rats. Environmental Magazine. September/October.

Donlan, C.J. and B.S. Keitt (1999). Using research and education to prevent extinction. California Coast and Ocean 15(3): 20-23.

Donlan, C.J. and A. Weinstein (1998). ICEG projects in NW Mexico. Aliens 7: 18.

Faulkner, K., G. Howald, and S. Ortega (2001). Eradicating rats from Anacapa Island. In Selleck, J. (ed.) Natural Resource Year in Review - 2001. National Park Service, Denver CO.

Faulkner, K., G. Howald, and S. Ortega (2003). Positive ecosystem changes on Anacapa Island from rat eradication. In Natural Resources Year in Review - 2003. National Park Service, Denver CO.

Weinstein, A., C.J. Donlan, D.A. Croll, and J.A. Sanchez Pacheco (2000). Update on island conservation in northwest Mexico. Aliens 10:19-20.

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