Aerial baiting with 1080 to control wild dogs does not affect the populations of two common small mammal species

Wildlife Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 528-532

  Fenner, Sally ^a   Krötner, Gerhard ^a   Vernes, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAIT; CANID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOVEMENT; NONTARGET ORGANISM; SMALL MAMMAL; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; ANTECHINUS STUARTII; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS FUSCIPES; RATTUS FUSCIPES ASSIMILIS;

EID: 70350100970     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR08134     Document Type: Article

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