, 2010), positional errors occur because of inclement weather, steep topography, buildings or surrounding vegetation that limit communication with orbiting satellites (Börger, Dalziel & Fryxell, 2008). We used stationary units to estimate the bias that would result from positional error alone, and found that location www.selleckchem.com/products/dinaciclib-sch727965.html imprecision would yield home-range sizes between 0.4 (outdoor) and 2.1 ha (indoor). Thus, estimates of home-range size <2 ha may not be meaningful for domestic cats tracked with the GPS loggers we used. In summary, our study shows that introduced cats on islands are generalist predators that can be expected to prey on both native

and introduced wildlife. Because of the availability of introduced rodents, cat predation pressure on native

species may be locally reduced, but rodents likely supplement cat populations and thus facilitate continuing cat predation of native wildlife. While only eradication of feral cats from islands will ensure conservation of native biodiversity, the confinement of domestic cats to owner’s homes and policies that preclude cat ownership within a 1-km radius around important native biodiversity aggregations may be useful to minimize the impact of domestic cats on threatened island biodiversity. The project LIFE07 NAT/P/000649 ‘Safe Islands for Seabirds’ made this work possible. We thank J. Benedicto, J. Katzenberger, J. Landschoff, S. Monforte, P. Domingos and cats’ owners for help with fieldwork. We are grateful to Vítor Paiva

and Pedro Geraldes for providing stimulating discussions on the design and analysis mTOR inhibitor of results and for the GPS units. The project was funded by the IMAR, RSPB and SPEA. The authors declare that this study complied with the current laws of Portugal. The associate of editor and two anonymous referees gave all kind of useful advices to improve the paper. Supporting Information Table S1. Number of prey (n P), percentage of different prey items (%RF), frequency of occurrence (%F), and of biomass (%B) of food items found in cats’ scats Felis catus, grouped into the four seasons, on the island of Corvo from September 2010 to August 2011. Supporting Information Table S2. Domestic cats Felis catus tracked with global positioning system (GPS) units once per season from July 2011 to November 2012 on Corvo Island, Azores. Home ranges were determined by minimum convex polygon areas (100% MCP) and 95% kernel density estimation (KE). Stationary GPS units were operational during the same period the cats were tracked, and reflect the home range that is estimated from positional error alone. Supporting Information Table S3. Model selection summary of 16 candidate models explaining variation in home-range size (n = 70 deployments) of domestic cats Felis catus tracked on the island of Corvo once per season from July 2011 to November 2012.