Managing an invasive predator pre-adapted to a pulsed resource: A model of stoat (Mustela erminea) irruptions in New Zealand beech forests

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3039-3055

  King, Carolyn M ^a   Powell, Roger A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mustela erminea; New Zealand; Nothofagus; Population matrices; Predator control; Pulsed resources

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGE STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; CULLING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MASTING; MORTALITY; MUSTELID; PREDATOR CONTROL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIALIST;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; FAGUS; MURIDAE; MUSTELA ERMINEA; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 80255137092     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-9993-y     Document Type: Article

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