Depression of tree recruitment by the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans Peale) on New Zealand's northern offshore islands

Biological Conservation

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-35

  Campbell, D J ^a   Atkinson, I A E ^a  

^a Ecological Research Associates of New Zealand Inc   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Forest succession; Island restoration; Rat proof exclosures; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; ISLAND; RECRUITMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; CICONIIFORMES; COPROSMA; COPROSMA REPENS; DYSOXYLUM; MELICYTUS; NESTEGIS; NESTEGIS APETALA; PELECANOIDIDAE; PISONIA; PISONIA BRUNONIANA; PITTOSPORUM; PITTOSPORUM CRASSIFOLIUM; POUTERIA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PSEUDOPANAX; PSEUDOPANAX LESSONII; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS; RHOPALOSTYLIS SAPIDA; STREBLUS;

EID: 0036272302     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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