Low individual-level dietary plasticity in an island-invasive generalist forager

Population Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 535-548

  Ruffino, Lise ^a   Russell, James C ^b   Pisanu, Benoît ^c   Caut, Stéphane ^d   Vidal, Eric ^a  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alien invasive rodents; Capture mark recapture; Dietary shift; Invasion success; Resource use

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DIET; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENERALIST; HABITAT QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PATCH USE; PREDATOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE USE; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79961169034     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-011-0265-6     Document Type: Article

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