Sampling skinks and geckos in artificial cover objects in a dry mixed grassland-shrubland with mammalian predator control

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-185

  Wilson, Deborah J ^a   Mulvey, Robin L ^a   Clark, Ryan D ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACO; Artificial refuge; Capture mark recapture; Hoplodactylus maculatus; Index; Oligosoma inconspicuum; Oligosoma maccanni; Oligosoma nigriplantre polychroma; Predator removal; Program MARK

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAPTURE METHOD; DIVERSITY INDEX; LIZARD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

GEKKONIDAE; HOPLODACTYLUS MACULATUS; MAMMALIA; OLIGOSOMA; OLIGOSOMA GRANDE; OLIGOSOMA INCONSPICUUM; OLIGOSOMA MACCANNI; OLIGOSOMA NIGRIPLANTARE POLYCHROMA; OLIGOSOMA OTAGENSE; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 38649143129     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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