Research on Guam has led to development and validation of numerous effective control tools, including the advancement of reptile control to support native species recovery.
Long-term research on Guam has led to development and validation of numerous effective control tools, including the advancement of reptile control to support native species recovery. Scientists at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center combine extensive herpetological expertise with cutting-edge quantitative skills to estimate detection probability, population size, and eradication prospects for a range of reptile species, although primarily focused on brown treesnakes. Projects and collaborators span the globe, with research focused on invasive reptiles in the Pacific.
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USGS Brown Treesnake Laboratory - Guam
Control and Landscape-Scale Suppression of the Invasive Brown Treesnake
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Research on Guam has led to development and validation of numerous effective control tools, including the advancement of reptile control to support native species recovery.
Long-term research on Guam has led to development and validation of numerous effective control tools, including the advancement of reptile control to support native species recovery. Scientists at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center combine extensive herpetological expertise with cutting-edge quantitative skills to estimate detection probability, population size, and eradication prospects for a range of reptile species, although primarily focused on brown treesnakes. Projects and collaborators span the globe, with research focused on invasive reptiles in the Pacific.
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Below are other science projects associated with this project.
USGS Brown Treesnake Laboratory - Guam
USGS scientists and staff associated with the Brown Treesnake Project are co-located at the Guam National Wildlife Refuge at the northern end of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean. Project staff work on developing and testing control tools for invasive brown treesnakes, as well as understanding their impacts on Guam's ecosystems. Project staff also lead the multi-agency Brown Treesnake Rapid...Control and Landscape-Scale Suppression of the Invasive Brown Treesnake
The Brown Treesnake is a highly destructive reptile species that has extirpated many native species of birds, bats, and lizards from the U.S. Territory of Guam. For more than two decades branch scientists with the Invasive Reptile Project have developed, validated, and tested the feasibility of Brown Treesnake control and suppression at various spatial scales. - News