Cats and seabirds: Effects of feral Domestic Cat Felis silvestris catus eradication on the population of Sooty Terns Onychoprion fuscata on Ascension Island, South Atlantic

Ibis

Volumn 150, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages 122-131

  Hughes, B John ^a   Martin, Graham R ^a   Reynolds, S James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acridotheres tristis; Black Rats; Common Mynas; Population recovery; Rattus rattus; Seabird restoration

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EGG PREDATION; FELID; FERAL ORGANISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR CONTROL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; SEABIRD;

ASCENSION ISLAND; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ACRIDOTHERES TRISTIS; AVES; FELIS CATUS; LARIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; STERNA FUSCATA;

EID: 50049125170     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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