Introduction of predators like rats and cats most affects:
“Island birds” for introduction of predators like rats and cats most affects. This relationship follows from the ecological mechanism represented by the terms in the item, not merely from an association between their names. Extinction risk rises when abundance, geographic range, or genetic variation becomes small because demographic chance, environmental fluctuations, inbreeding, and rare catastrophes then have disproportionate effects. Correlated losses among subpopulations further weaken regional persistence. The remaining alternatives—“Marine mammals”, “Terrestrial reptiles”, “Amphibians”—r
Ref: Conservation Biology, Primack & Sher, 6th Ed., Ch. 7