Vulnerability of ground-nesting waterbirds to predation by invasive American mink in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1450-1460

  Schüttler, Elke ^a,b,c   Klenke, Reinhard ^a,d   McGehee, Steven ^b,e   Rozzi, Ricardo ^b,f   Jax, Kurt ^a,b,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Society for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial nests; Breeding birds; Management; Mustela vison; Nest characteristics; Nest survival

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BREEDING POPULATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUSTELID; NATURE RESERVE; NESTING SUCCESS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VULNERABILITY; WATERFOWL;

CAPE HORN BIOSPHERE RESERVE; CHILE; MAGALLANES; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; CHLOEPHAGA PICTA; LARUS DOMINICANUS; LEUCOPHAEUS SCORESBII; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; STERNA HIRUNDINACEA; TACHYERES PTENERES;

EID: 67349088290     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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