Functional responses of an invasive top predator Mustela erminea to invasive meso-predators Rattus rattus and Mus musculus, in New Zealand forests

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-140

  Jones, Christopher ^a   Pech, Roger ^a   Forrester, Guy ^a   King, Carolyn M ^b   Murphy, Elaine C ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HABITAT TYPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MUSTELID; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

FAGUS; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79955367060     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10137     Document Type: Article

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