Challenges in Food-Web Restoration: An Assessment of the Restoration Requirements of a Honeydew-Gecko Trophic Interaction in the Auckland Region, New Zealand

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 295-303

  Gardner Gee, Robin ^a   Beggs, Jacqueline R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coelostomidiidae; Food web ecology; Honeydew restoration; Hoplodactylus; Lizard conservation; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOOD WEB; HABITAT LOSS; HONEYDEW; HOST PLANT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIZARD; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

AUCKLAND ISLANDS; KORAPUKI ISLAND; MERCURY ISLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIKATO;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; GEKKONIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOPLODACTYLUS; HOPLODACTYLUS DUVAUCELII; HOPLODACTYLUS MACULATUS; MYOPORUM; MYOPORUM LAETUM; PITTOSPORUM CRASSIFOLIUM; SQUAMATA;

EID: 78449254880     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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