Effects of habitat and introduced mammalian predators on the breeding success of Yellow-eyed Penguins Megadyptes antipodes, South Island, New Zealand

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-27

  Ratz, Hiltrun ^a   Murphy, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Fragmentation; Habitat use; Introduced mammalian predators; Megadyptes antipodes; Population model; Predation; Yellow eyed Penguin

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

AVES; CATUS; FELIS CATUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; MUSTELA; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MUSTELA FURO; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0033490453     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC990016     Document Type: Article

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