Modelling the benefits of American Mink Mustela vison management options for terns in west Scotland

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Volumn 150, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 114-121

  Ratcliffe, Norman ^a   Craik, Clive ^b   Helyar, Alice ^c,d   Roy, Sugoto ^c   Scott, Martin ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d Office 2 ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

American Mink; Predation; Strategic conservation planning; Tern

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GIS; HABITAT USE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUSTELID; PREDATION; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN ISLES;

LARIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 50049093601     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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