Rodent control and food supplementation increase productivity of endangered San Clemente Loggerhead Shrikes (Lanius ludovicianus mearnsi)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2506-2515

  Heath, Shane R ^a   Kershner, Eric L ^a   Cooper, Douglass M ^a   Lynn, Suellen ^b   Turner, Jennifer M ^a   Warnock, Nils ^b   Farabaugh, Susan ^c   Brock, Kelly ^d   Garcelon, David K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^b PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d Naval Air Station North Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel Islands; Chick survival; Food provisioning; Predator management; Rat predation; Rodenticide

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CAPTIVE BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECUNDITY; FLEDGING; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LIFE HISTORY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDATION; PREDATOR CONTROL; RODENT;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS MEARNSI; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 52049112753     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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