Predicting the spread of the American grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Europe: A call for a co-ordinated European approach

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2564-2575

  Bertolino, Sandro ^a   Lurz, Peter W W ^b   Sanderson, Roy ^b   Rushton, Steve P ^b  

^a DIVAPRA Dept of Protect and Exploitation of Agricultural Resources Entomology and Zoology   (Italy)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio security; Biological invasion; Eradication; Modelling; Sciurus vulgaris; Simulations

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDICTION; RODENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS VULGARIS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 52049106168     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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