Changes in population size, habitat use and breeding biology of lesser sheathbills (Chionis minor) at Marion Island: Impacts of cats, mice and climate change?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 299-310

  Huyser, Onno ^a   Ryan, Peter G ^a   Cooper, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Competition; Ecosystem change; Introduced species; Subantarctic

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT USE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEABIRD;

INDIAN OCEAN;

AVES; CATUS; CHIONIS MINOR; CICONIIFORMES; FELIS CATUS; INVERTEBRATA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; PROCELLARIIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033974245     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00096-8     Document Type: Article

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