Avoiding surprise effects on Surprise Island: Alien species control in a multitrophic level perspective

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1689-1703

  Caut, Stéphane ^a   Angulo, Elena ^a   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Alien invasive species; Eradication strategy; Rattus rattus; Trophic relationships

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 70350675575     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9397-9     Document Type: Article

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