Effect of prefeeding, sowing rate and sowing pattern on efficacy of aerial 1080 poisoning of small-mammal pests in New Zealand

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 249-259

  Nugent, Graham ^a   Warburton, Bruce ^a   Thomson, Caroline ^a   Sweetapple, Peter ^a   Ruscoe, Wendy A ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

bait fragmentation; brushtail possums; mice; Mus musculus; Rattus rattus; ship rats; sodium fluoroacetate; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

BAIT; CHEMICAL CONTROL; FRAGMENTATION; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; ORGANOFLUORINE; PESTICIDE; POISONING; RODENT; SOWING DATE; SPRAY; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; PHALANGERIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 79960367017     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10198     Document Type: Article

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