A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands

The eradication of invasive feral cats is one of the most effective ways of preventing cat negative impacts on island biota. However, its success on inhabited islands can be hampered by the opposition from various sectors of society. Surveys can be used to gather information on social perceptions on...

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Autores: López-Darias, Marta, Piquet, Julien C., Díaz-Luis, Natalia, García, Eduardo A., Medina, Félix M.
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palavra-chave:Education
Eradication
Felis catus
Inhabited islands
Social perceptions
Survey
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spelling A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islandsLópez-Darias, MartaPiquet, Julien C.Díaz-Luis, NataliaGarcía, Eduardo A.Medina, Félix M.EducationEradicationFelis catusInhabited islandsSocial perceptionsSurveyThe eradication of invasive feral cats is one of the most effective ways of preventing cat negative impacts on island biota. However, its success on inhabited islands can be hampered by the opposition from various sectors of society. Surveys can be used to gather information on social perceptions on cat management, but the wide variety of survey types currently available hampers their applicability. In this context, we first reviewed cat surveys worldwide up to 2016 with a view to later informing and developing a unified survey that retains information of recurring interest and identifies the methodology with a higher response rate. We developed a questionnaire with five sections and 25 questions (increased to 26 after a pre-test phase) and identified the self-administered, hand-delivered method as the one with higher response rates. In addition, we tested both the questionnaire and the methodology on the inhabited European island of La Graciosa, successfully collecting valuable information for all sections of the questionnaire and obtaining a very high response rate (71.3 %). We argue that this questionnaire and methodology, slightly adapted to the local context if necessary, could be considered as a baseline and standardized tool that could allow managers worldwide to incorporate social perceptions on cat control and eradication planning on inhabited islands.Special thanks to the field team that collaborated in carrying out the surveys: Juan Manuel Pérez Díaz, Jordi Díaz Calcines, Diana Martín Larsen, Santiago José Rosas Santana, Francisco Javier Morata Martín, and Jeremías Cabrera Cabrera. Manuel Nogales Hidalgo provided support for the project and made useful comments on the early draft of the manuscript. Staff from the Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales, Parque Nacional de Timanfaya, collaborated in the fieldwork. This study was funded by Cabildo de Lanzarote. MLD was funded by the Cabildo de Tenerife under the identification mark “Tenerife 2030” (P. INNOVA 2016-2021). JCP was funded by a doctoral fellowship supported by the Agencia Canaria de la Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información and the European Social Fund (Operational Programme of the Canary Islands 2014-2020 – Priority Axis 3: Priority Theme 74, 85 %).Peer reviewedElsevierOrganismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales (España)Parque Nacional de TimanfayaCabildo de LanzaroteAgencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la InformaciónEuropean CommissionLópez-Darias, Marta [0000-0002-7611-1298]Piquet, Julien C. [0000-0001-8329-7126]Medina, Félix M. [0000-0002-5905-448X]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcPublisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/402863https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85219580223reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)InglésThe underlying dataset has been published as supplementary material of the article in the publisher platform at DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126884https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126884Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/4028632026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
title A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
spellingShingle A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
López-Darias, Marta
Education
Eradication
Felis catus
Inhabited islands
Social perceptions
Survey
title_short A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
title_full A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
title_fullStr A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
title_full_unstemmed A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
title_sort A unified questionnaire and methodology to evaluate social perception of cats on inhabited islands
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv López-Darias, Marta
Piquet, Julien C.
Díaz-Luis, Natalia
García, Eduardo A.
Medina, Félix M.
author López-Darias, Marta
author_facet López-Darias, Marta
Piquet, Julien C.
Díaz-Luis, Natalia
García, Eduardo A.
Medina, Félix M.
author_role author
author2 Piquet, Julien C.
Díaz-Luis, Natalia
García, Eduardo A.
Medina, Félix M.
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales (España)
Parque Nacional de Timanfaya
Cabildo de Lanzarote
Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información
European Commission
López-Darias, Marta [0000-0002-7611-1298]
Piquet, Julien C. [0000-0001-8329-7126]
Medina, Félix M. [0000-0002-5905-448X]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Education
Eradication
Felis catus
Inhabited islands
Social perceptions
Survey
topic Education
Eradication
Felis catus
Inhabited islands
Social perceptions
Survey
description The eradication of invasive feral cats is one of the most effective ways of preventing cat negative impacts on island biota. However, its success on inhabited islands can be hampered by the opposition from various sectors of society. Surveys can be used to gather information on social perceptions on cat management, but the wide variety of survey types currently available hampers their applicability. In this context, we first reviewed cat surveys worldwide up to 2016 with a view to later informing and developing a unified survey that retains information of recurring interest and identifies the methodology with a higher response rate. We developed a questionnaire with five sections and 25 questions (increased to 26 after a pre-test phase) and identified the self-administered, hand-delivered method as the one with higher response rates. In addition, we tested both the questionnaire and the methodology on the inhabited European island of La Graciosa, successfully collecting valuable information for all sections of the questionnaire and obtaining a very high response rate (71.3 %). We argue that this questionnaire and methodology, slightly adapted to the local context if necessary, could be considered as a baseline and standardized tool that could allow managers worldwide to incorporate social perceptions on cat control and eradication planning on inhabited islands.
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