Costing eradications of alien mammals from islands

Animal Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-444

  Martins, T L F ^a,b   Brooke, M de L ^c   Hilton, G M ^b   Farnsworth, S ^c   Gould, J ^c   Pain, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cats; Goats; Rats; Restoration

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; MAMMAL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750148365     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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