Ferret (mustela furo) abundance, survival and recruitmenton farmland in north canterbury, new zealand

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-31

  Morley, Craig G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Abundance; Capture recapture; Ferret; Jolly Seber model; Mustela furo; Recruitment; Survival

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; MUSTELID; RECRUITMENT; SURVIVAL;

NEW ZEALAND;

MUSTELA FURO;

EID: 0036252811     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2002.9518286     Document Type: Article

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