Can predation by invasive mice drive seabird extinctions?

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-244

  Wanless, Ross M ^a,b   Angel, Andrea ^b   Cuthbert, Richard J ^a,c   Hilton, Geoff M ^c   Ryan, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CORE Initiatives ^*  (South Africa)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Invasive alien species; Island conservation; Mus musculus; Threatened seabirds

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITOR SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEDGLING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GOUGH ISLAND; SAINT HELENA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

DIOMEDEA DABBENENA; DIOMEDEIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PTERODROMA INCERTA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35848960730     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0120     Document Type: Article

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