Efficacy of rodenticide baits for the control of three invasive rodent species in Hawaii

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 533-542

  Pitt, William C ^a   Driscoll, Laura C ^a   Sugihara, Robert T ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BRODIFACOUM; BROMADIOLONE; BROMETHALIN; CHLOROPHACINONE; DIFETHIALONE; DIPHENADIONE; RODENTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN; ZINC PHOSPHIDE;

BAIT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; PALATABILITY; PEST SPECIES; PESTICIDE; POPULATION REGULATION; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD INTAKE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATTUS EXULANS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENT; RODENT CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAWAII; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; MICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RODENT CONTROL; RODENTICIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79955942072     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9554-x     Document Type: Article

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