The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Loss, Scott R ^a   Will, Tom ^b   Marra, Peter P ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Division of Migratory Birds   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; COLLISION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FELID; FERAL ORGANISM; ISLAND; MORTALITY; POISONING; PREDATION RISK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CAT; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PREDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; WILD ANIMAL;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; CATS; HUMANS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877020543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2380     Document Type: Article

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