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Along the western edge of Alaska s Aleutian archipelago, a group of islands that were inadvertently populated with rodents came to earn the ignominious label of the Rat Islands. The non-native invaders were accidentally introduced to these islands, and others throughout the Aleutian chain, through shipwrecks dating back to the 1700s and World War II occupation. The resilient rodents, which are known to be among the most damaging invasive animals, adapted and thrived in the new setting and eventually overwhelmed the island ecosystems, disrupting the natural ecological order and driving out native species.   A coordinated conservation effort that removed the rats from one of the islands formerly known as Rat Island has become a new example of how ecosystems can fully recover to their natural state in little more than a decade. The ecological rebound at newly named Hawadax Island (a return to the original Aleut name meaning the island over there with two knolls ) extended from lan

Donald crollCarolyn kurleUniversity of california san diegoEvolutionary biology departmentWildlife serviceRat recovers following invasive rodent removalHawadax islandRat recovers following invasive rodentWorld warRat islandScientific reportsCalifornia san diegoDiego divisionBiological sciences sectionIsland conservationடொனால்ட் சிரோல்ல