Feathers to Fur: The status of New Zealand ecological research in 2009

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Sullivan, Jon J ^a   Kelly, Dave ^b   Ladley, Jenny J ^b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conservation; Disturbance; Eradication; Extinction; Fish; Fungi; Herbivory; Invasions; Rattus exulans; Trees

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FEATHER; FISH; FUNGUS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HERBIVORY; MASS EXTINCTION; PREDATOR; RODENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS;

EID: 77949288714     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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