Effectiveness of repellents for reducing damage to eucalypt seedlings by browsing mammals

Australian Forestry

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 303-310

  Miller, Alison M ^a   O’Reilly Wapstra, Julianne M ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Hugh P ^a,b   Paterson, Stephen C ^b   Stam, Lee ^c   Walsh, Andrew ^c   Wardlaw, Tim ^b,c   Potts, Brad M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

^c FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Browsing damage; Eucalyptus nitens; Marsupials; Pademelon; Possum; Repellents; Seedlings

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS;

BROWSING DAMAGE; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; MARSUPIALS; PADEMELON; POSSUM; REPELLENTS; SEEDLINGS;

SEED;

EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MAMMALS; ODOR CONTROL; PLANTATIONS; SEEDLINGS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS NITENS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; THYLOGALE; THYLOGALE BILLARDIERII;

EID: 58249098810     PISSN: 00049158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2008.10675049     Document Type: Article

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