Management implications of the Macquarie Island trophic cascade revisited: A reply to Dowding et al. (2009)

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1133-1136

  Bergstrom, Dana M ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^b   Kiefer, Kate ^a   Wasley, Jane ^a   Belbin, Lee ^c   Pedersen, Tore K ^a,b   Chown, Steven L ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Blatant Fabrications Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Rabbits; Sub Antarctic; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; FELID; FERAL ORGANISM; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION SIZE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; VIRUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FELIS CATUS; MYXOMA VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 70349671170     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01708.x     Document Type: Article

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