Interference competition between introduced black rats and endemic Galá pagos rice rats

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2330-2344

  Harris, Donna B ^a,b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Encounter interference; Food supplementation; Gal pagos; Interspecific competition; Introduced species; Mus musculus; Nesoryzomys swarthi; Press experiment; Rattus rattus; Removal experiment; Santiago Island; Sex mediated competition

Indexed keywords

FIELD METHOD; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; IMMIGRATION; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RODENT;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAN SALVADOR [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS]; SOUTH AMERICA;

MUS MUSCULUS; NESORYZOMYS SWARTHI; ORYZOMYS; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAT; SIGMODONTINAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RATS; SIGMODONTINAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449095521     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1701.1     Document Type: Article

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