Synergy between two invasive species, redback spiders and rabbits, threaten the endangered Cromwell chafer beetle

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Synergy between two invasive species, redback spiders and rabbits, threaten the endangered Cromwell chafer beetle

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Interactions between invasive species can be difficult to predict and can result in unanticipated impacts of significance for native fauna. Here we show that introduced European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) create habitat that enables invasive redback spiders (Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1870) to establish and prey upon the nationally endangered, endemic Cromwell chafer beetle (Prodontria lewisii Broun, 1904). We examined the spatial relationship between rabbit holes and redback spider o...

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Research paper

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Article

Date created

2017-05-01

Creator

Spencer, Jackie / van Heezik, Yolanda / Seddon, Philip J. / Barratt, Barbara I. P.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/27702

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Biodiversity & Conservation / Ecology / Environmental Sciences & Ecology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Science & Technology

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