Invasive rat space use on tropical islands: Implications for bait broadcast

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 179-186

  Ringler, David ^a   Russell, James ^b   Jaeger, Audrey ^a   Pinet, Patrick ^a   Bastien, Matthieu ^a   Le Corre, Matthieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eradication; Home range; Microhabitat use; Overlap; Rattus rattus; Spatially explicit capture recapture; Spool and line

Indexed keywords

FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84897050859     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.01.005     Document Type: Article

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