A spatio-temporal model for the invasion of the New Zealand archipelago by the Pacific rat Rattus exulans

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-105

  Holdaway, Richard N ^a  

^a PALAECOL RESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Colonisation; New Zealand; Pacific rat; Polynesian voyaging; Radiocarbon dating; Rattus exulans

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; RODENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; RATTUS EXULANS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032719353     PISSN: 03036758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1999.9517586     Document Type: Article

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