When to declare successful eradication of an invasive predator?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 125-132

  Rout, T M ^a,b   Kirkwood, R ^c,e   Sutherland, D R ^c   Murphy, S ^d   Mccarthy, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Research Department Phillip Island Nature Parks   (Australia)

^d Environment Department Phillip Island Nature Parks   (Australia)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Catch effort models; Decision theory; Detection; Monitoring; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

BAIT; CANID; DETECTION METHOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84898054886     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acv.12065     Document Type: Article

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