Indirect Effects of Introduced Predators on Seabird Islands

Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Russell, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Food webs; Interspecific competition; Intraguild predations; Introduced predators; Multiple species; Mutualisms; Seabirds; Trophic position

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878876783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199735693.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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