Archipelago-wide island restoration in the galápagos islands: Reducing costs of invasive mammal eradication programs and reinvasion risk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Carrion, Victor ^a   Donlan, C Josh ^b,c   Campbell, Karl J ^a,d,e,f   Lavoie, Christian ^a,d,g,h   Cruz, Felipe ^a,d  

^a Galapagos National Park Service   (Ecuador)

^b Advanced Conservation Strategies   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f ISLAND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^g UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^h Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GOAT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISABELA ISLAND; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); ISLAND SIZE; NONHUMAN; SANTIAGO ISLAND; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; GOATS;

EID: 79955900902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018835     Document Type: Article

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