Removal of American mink increases the success of simulated nests in linear habitat

Wildlife Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 225-230

  Padyšákov, Eliška ^a   Šálek, Martin ^a,b   Poledník, Lukáš ^c   Sedláček, František ^a,b   Albrecht, Tomáš ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Lid́ovice 62 ^*  (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MUSTELID; NESTING SUCCESS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; WATERFOWL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; JIHLAVA RIVER;

ANATIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 64349120955     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR08022     Document Type: Article

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