Seabird islands take mere decades to recover following rat eradication

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2075-2080

  Jones, Holly P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Chronosequence; Ecosystem recovery; Eradication; Invasive species; New Zealand seabird islands; Rattus exulans; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BIODIVERSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COLONY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NESTING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; RAT; SOIL; SPIDER; TIME;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NITROGEN; POPULATION GROWTH; RATS; SOIL; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS;

NEW ZEALAND;

ARANEAE; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS;

EID: 78649901519     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0118.1     Document Type: Article

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