Size bias in visual searches and trapping of brown treesnakes on Guam

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 656-661

  Rodda, Gordon H ^a,c   Savidge, Julie A ^b   Tyrrell, Claudine L ^b   Christy, Michelle T ^b   Ellingson, Aaron R ^a  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c 58 Gladstone Road ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Boiga irregularis; Brown treesnake; Control techniques; Eradication; Guam, invasive species; Snake trapping

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL; PREDATOR CONTROL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SNAKE; TRAPPING;

GUAM; MARIANA ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; BOIGA IRREGULARIS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 38749131802     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-742     Document Type: Article

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