Seabirds in the stomach contents of black rats Rattus rattus on Higashijima, the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-295

  Yabe, Tatsuo ^a,b   Hashimoto, Takuma ^c   Takiguchi, Masaaki ^c   Aoki, Masanari ^c   Kawakami, Kazuto ^d  

^a Rat Control Consulting   (Japan)

^b C/o Overseas Agricultural Development Association ^*  (Japan)

^c JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 84859851444     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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