Improving predator capture rates: Analysis of river margin trap site data in the Waitaki Basin, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-128

  Cameron, Bevan G ^a,c   van Heezik, Yolanda ^a   Maloney, Richard F ^b   Seddon, Philip J ^a   Harraway, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c Kiwi and Birdlife Park ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Black stilts; Capture rates; Himantopus novaezelandiae; Kaki; Predators; Trapping efficacy

Indexed keywords

PREDATOR CONTROL; TRAPPING;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

CIRCUS; CIRCUS APPROXIMANS; DIOSPYROS KAKI; ERINACEIDAE; ERINACEUS EUROPAEUS; FELIS CATUS; HIMANTOPUS NOVAEZELANDIAE; MUSTELA FURO; MUSTELIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 23344446450     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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