Toxicity and persistence of sodium fluoroacetate (1080) in the land crab (Gecarcinus lagostoma) on Ascension Island

Wildlife Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-92

  Pain, D J ^a   White, R ^a   Stevenson, J ^a   Bell, M ^b   Williams, K K ^c   Fisher, P ^d   Wright, G ^d  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b Wildlife Management International Limited   (New Zealand)

^c Georgetown Ascension Island   (Guyana)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAIT; CARNIVORE; CRAB; FERAL ORGANISM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORTALITY; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR CONTROL; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEABIRD; TOXICITY TEST; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ASCENSION ISLAND; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE; GECARCINUS LAGOSTOMA;

EID: 40849113181     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR07038     Document Type: Article

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