Alien mink predation induces prolonged declines in archipelago amphibians

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1591, 2006, Pages 1261-1265

  Ahola, Markus ^a   Nordström, Mikael ^a,d   Banks, Peter B ^b   Laanetu, Nikolai ^c   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Region Council of Subregion Åboland ^*  (Estonia)

^d Region Council of Subregion Åboland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bufo bufo; Delayed maturity; Island populations; Mustela vison; Predator removal; Rana temporaria

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ARCHIPELAGO; BIODIVERSITY; FROG; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; MUSTELID; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR CONTROL; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FROG; MINK; MUSTELA VISON; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOAD; ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; RANA TEMPORARIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUFO BUFO; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; MINK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 33745050236     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3455     Document Type: Article

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