Predation at Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus colonies on the New Zealand mainland: Is there safety in numbers?

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 355-357

  Lyver, P O'B ^a   Moller, H ^b   Robertson, C J R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adult survival; Extinction vortex; Mustela erminea; Predation; Productivity; Puffinus griseus; Rattus norvegicus

Indexed keywords

COLONY; PREDATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SEABIRD; SURVIVORSHIP;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

MUSTELA ERMINEA; PUFFINUS GRISEUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0033286249     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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