Chew-track-cards: A multiple-species small mammal detection device

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-162

  Sweetapple, Peter ^a   Nugent, Graham ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Detection; Pest abundance indices; Possums; Rodents; Tracking tunnels; Trap catch method; Waxtags

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; DETECTION METHOD; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RODENT; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVEY; SYMPATRY; TRAPPING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79957754737     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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