The demographics of destruction: Isolated populations of arboreal snails and sustained predation by rats on the island of moloka'i 1982-2006

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1595-1609

  Hadfield, Michael G ^a   Saufler, Jennifer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Achatinellidae; Hawaiian tree snails; Mark recapture; Rat predation; Species reintroduction

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SNAIL;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MOLOKAI; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ACHATINELLIDAE; GASTROPODA; PARTULINA REDFIELDI; RATTUS;

EID: 70350680795     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9409-9     Document Type: Article

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