Predation of seabirds by invasive rats: Multiple indirect consequences for invertebrate communities

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 420-430

  Towns, David R ^a   Wardle, David A ^b,c   Mulder, Christa P H ^d   Yeates, Gregor W ^e   Fitzgerald, Brian M ^f   Richard Parrish, G ^g   Bellingham, Peter J ^c   Bonner, Karen I ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f Te Papa Tongarewa   (New Zealand)

^g NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BURROW; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NEMATODE; PREDATION; RECOLONIZATION; RODENT; SEABIRD; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ARANEAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PROCELLARIIDAE; RATTUS; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 61849180232     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17186.x     Document Type: Article

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