Fallow deer deaths during aerial‐1080 poisoning ofpossums in the blue mountains, otago, new zealand

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-192

  Nugent, G ^a   Yockney, I ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

1080; By kill; Dama dama; Fallow deer; Poisoning; Sodium monofluoroacetate

Indexed keywords

DEER; HUNTING; MORTALITY; POISONING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BLUE MOUNTAINS [NEW SOUTH WALES]; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ALOPIAS; AVES; CERVIDAE; CERVUS DAMA; DAMA; DAMA DAMA; PHALANGERIDAE; SUS; SUS SCOFA; SUS SCROFA; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 3242875367     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2004.9518371     Document Type: Article

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