Modelling population persistence on islands: Mammal introductions in the New Zealand archipelago

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1604, 2006, Pages 2969-2975

  Duncan, Richard P ^a,b   Forsyth, David M ^b,c  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Colonization; Environmental stochasticity; Extinction; Island biogeography; Stochastic population growth

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION RISK; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MAMMAL; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LATITUDE; MAMMAL; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL TIME; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34247221114     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3662     Document Type: Article

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