Risk assessment of birds foraging terrestrially at Marion and Gough Islands to primary and secondary poisoning by rodenticides

Wildlife Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 524-530

  Wanless, Ross M ^a,b   Cooper, John ^a,c   Slabber, Martin J ^d   Ryan, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Seabird Division   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVASIVE SPECIES; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PESTICIDE; POISONING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SEABIRD; WADER;

GOUGH ISLAND; MARION ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS; SAINT HELENA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA ANTARCTICA; CHIONIS MINOR; EMBERIZA; GALLINULA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; ROWETTIA GOUGHENSIS;

EID: 77958489792     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10005     Document Type: Article

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