Control of introduced mammalian predators improves kaka Nestor meridionalis breeding success: Reversing the decline of a threatened New Zealand parrot

Biological Conservation

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-44

  Moorhouse, Ron ^a   Greene, Terry ^a   Dilks, Peter ^a   Powlesland, Ralph ^a   Moran, Les ^a   Taylor, Genevieve ^a   Jones, Alan ^a   Knegtmans, Jaap ^a   Wills, Dave ^a   Pryde, Moira ^a   Fraser, Ian ^a   August, Andrew ^a   August, Claude ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brush tail possums; Conservation; Mustelids; Poison bait stations; Psittaciformes; Rats; Trapping

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; NESTING SUCCESS; PREDATOR CONTROL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND;

ALOPIAS; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MUSTELIDAE; NESTOR; NESTOR MERIDIONALIS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0037353446     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00173-8     Document Type: Article

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