The development of target-specific vertebrate pest management tools for complex faunal communities

Ecological Management and Restoration

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-216

  Bengsen, Andrew ^a   Leung, Luke K P ^a   Lapidge, Steven J ^b   Gordon, Iain J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feral Pig; Pest control; Recognition systems; Sus scrofa; Target specific; Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

Indexed keywords

BAIT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERAL ORGANISM; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PIG; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTEBRATE; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DAINTREE; QUEENSLAND;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 54349095387     PISSN: 14427001     EISSN: 14428903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-8903.2008.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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