Introduced house mice Mus musculus: A significant predator of threatened and endemic birds on Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 483-489

  Cuthbert, Richard ^a,b,c   Hilton, Geoff ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Beacon Ecology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic petrel; Conservation; Diomedea (exulans) dabbenena; Gough bunting; House mice; Mus musculus; Predation; Pterodroma incerta; Rowettia goughensis; Sub Antarctic Islands; Tristan albatross

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PREDATION; RODENT; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GOUGH ISLAND; SAINT HELENA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

AVES; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA DABBENENA; EMBERIZA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; PTERODROMA; PTERODROMA INCERTA; ROWETTIA GOUGHENSIS;

EID: 1842486885     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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