Unexpected consequences of vertebrate pest control: Predictions from a four-species community model

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1050-1061

  Tompkins, Daniel M ^a   Veltman, Clare J ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brushtail possum; Community ecology; Conservation; Indirect effects; Kiwi; New Zealand; Nonlinearity; Nothofagus mast years; Sodium monofluoroacetate (1080); Stoat; Threshold effects; Vertebrate pest control

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES; RODENT; TRAPPING; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; PEST CONTROL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEST CONTROL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

FAGUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; NOTHOFAGUS; PHALANGERIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745997339     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1050:UCOVPC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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