Mitigating exotic impacts: Restoring deer mouse populations elevated by an exotic food subsidy

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 321-334

  Pearson, Dean E ^a,b   Fletcher Jr , Robert J ^b,c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centaurea maculosa; Community ecology; Demography; Exotic species; Food limitation; Movement; Peromyscus maniculatus; Population biology; Spotted knapweed; Survival; Urophora spp.

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOOD LIMITATION; FOOD SUPPLY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MITIGATION; MOVEMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA MACULOSA; HEXAPODA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; UROPHORA;

HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CENTAUREA; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; PEROMYSCUS; PEST CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; CENTAUREA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; HERBICIDES; INSECTS; PEROMYSCUS; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54549093766     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0766.1     Document Type: Article

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