Modeling impacts and costs of gray squirrel control regimes on the viability of red squirrel populations

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 683-697

  Rushton, Stephen P ^a   Gurnell, John ^a   Lurz, Peter W W ^a   Fuller, Robin M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Geographic information system; Gray squirrel; Immunocontraception; Red squirrel; Sciurus carolinensis; Sciurus vulgaris; Spatially explicit population model; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; TRAPPING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ENGLAND (EAST ANGLIA); ENGLAND (NORTHUMBERLAND); REDESDALE FOREST; THETFORD FOREST; UNITED KINGDOM;

CAROLINENSIS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS VULGARIS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 0036637989     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3803135     Document Type: Article

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