Rats dying for mice: Modelling the competitor release effect

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 858-868

  Caut, Stéphane ^a   Casanovas, Jorge G ^b,e   Virgos, Emilio ^c   Lozano, Jorge ^c   Witmer, Gary W ^d   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alien predator control; Biological invasion; Competing rodent; Control strategy; Introduced mammal

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTRODUCED SPECIES; NONTARGET ORGANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATOR; RODENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247519410     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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