Prognosis for ecosystem recovery following rodent eradication and seabird restoration in an island archipelago

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1204-1216

  Jones, Holly P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cook strait; Ecosystem recovery; Eradication; Invasive rodent species; Island restoration; New Zealand; Seabird restoration; Social facilitation; Spatial subsidies; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDATOR; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RODENT; SEABIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIMESCALE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PROGNOSIS; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROGNOSIS; RODENTIA;

COOK STRAIT; NEW ZEALAND;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954332796     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1172.1     Document Type: Article

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