Baiting red foxes in an urban area: A camera trap study

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1010-1017

  Hegglin, Daniel ^a   Bontadina, Fabio ^b   Gloor, Sandra ^a,d   Romer, Jann ^c   Müller, Uli ^b   Breitenmoser, Urs ^b   Deplazes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Urban Ecology and Wildlife Research   (Switzerland)

^d SWILD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bait consumption; Echinococcus multilocularis; Fox tapeworm; Management strategy; Rabies; Remote photography; Switzerland; Urban wildlife; Vulpes vulpes; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

BAIT; CANID; HEALTH RISK; PARASITE PREVALENCE; URBAN AREA; VACCINATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS; ARION; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ERINACEIDAE; ERINACEUS; ERINACEUS EUROPAEUS; GASTROPODA; RODENTIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 3142644535     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[1010:BRFIAU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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