Predicting Summer Site Occupancy for an Invasive Species, the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), in an Urban Environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Adams, Amy L ^a   Dickinson, Katharine J M ^a   Robertson, Bruce C ^a   van Heezik, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HABITAT; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PREDATION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RACCOON; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TRICHOSURUS; URBAN AREA; VULPES VULPES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; TREES; TRICHOSURUS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84874627417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058422     Document Type: Article

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