Avoiding aliens: Behavioural plasticity in habitat use enables large, nocturnal geckos to survive Pacific rat invasions

Biological Conservation

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 510-519

  Hoare, Joanne M ^a   Pledger, Shirley ^a   Nelson, Nicola J ^a   Daugherty, Charles H ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecological displacement; Invasive species; Predation; Radio telemetry; Rat eradication; Spool and line tracking

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HABITAT USE; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIZARD; MICROHABITAT; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; RADIOTELEMETRY; RECRUITMENT; RODENT; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY; TRACKING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; GREEN ISLAND [GREAT BARRIER REEF]; KORAPUKI ISLAND; MERCURY ISLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; OHINAU ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; WAIKATO;

GEKKONIDAE; HOPLODACTYLUS DUVAUCELII; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33947323025     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.12.022     Document Type: Article

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