Why 0.02%? A review of the basis for current practice in aerial 1080 baiting for rabbits in New Zealand

Wildlife Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-103

  Nugent, Graham ^a   Twigg, Laurie E ^b   Warburton, Bruce ^a   McGlinchy, Aaron ^a   Fisher, Penny ^a   Gormley, Andrew M ^a   Parkes, John P ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

best practice; sodium fluoroacetate.

Indexed keywords

BAIT; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; LAGOMORPH; ORGANOFLUORINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOWING; VIRUS;

NEW ZEALAND;

DAUCUS CAROTA; LAGOVIRUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHALANGERIDAE; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859330979     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR11121     Document Type: Review

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