Successful eradication of invasive rodents from a small island through pulsed baiting inside covered stations

Biological Invasions

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 141-147

  Orueta, Jorge F ^a   Aranda, Yolanda ^a   Gómez, Tomás ^a   Tapia, Gerardo G ^a   Sanchez Mármol, Lino ^a  

^a SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Covered baiting stations; Mediterranean; Pulsed baiting; Rattus rattus; Small islands

Indexed keywords

BAIT; ISLAND; POISONING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; CHAFARINAS ISLANDS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES);

EID: 11844303538     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-004-9644-7     Document Type: Article

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