Bait aggregation to reduce cost and toxin use in aerial 1080 baiting of small mammal pests in New Zealand

Pest Management Science

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1374-1379

  Nugent, Graham ^a   Warburton, Bruce ^a   Thomson, Caroline ^a   Cross, Martin L ^a   Coleman, Morgan C ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

1080; Aerial broadcast; Bait aggregation; Brushtail possums; Cluster sowing; Pest control; Rattus rattus; Ship rats; Sodium fluoroacetate; Toxin reduction; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

FLUOROACETIC ACID; PESTICIDE;

AERIAL SURVEY; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BAIT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SMALL MAMMAL; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PEST CONTROL; RAT; TRICHOSURUS;

ANIMALS; FLUOROACETATES; NEW ZEALAND; PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDES; RATS; TRICHOSURUS;

NEW ZEALAND;

MAMMALIA; PHALANGERIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 84866146029     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3315     Document Type: Article

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