Assessing the potential for impacts by feral mink on wild mink in Canada

Biological Conservation

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 12-18

  Bowman, Jeff ^a   Kidd, Anne G ^b   Gorman, Ryan M ^a   Schulte Hostedde, Albrecht I ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aleutian disease; Domestication; Fur farm; Hybridization; Local adaptation; Mustela vison; Outbreeding depression

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; DOMESTICATION; FERAL ORGANISM; HARVESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUSTELID; POPULATION DECLINE; RANCHING; WILD POPULATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 34548275578     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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