Ecological effects of the invasive giant madagascar day gecko on endemic Mauritian geckos: Applications of binomial-mixture and species distribution models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Buckland, Steeves ^a,b   Cole, Nik C ^a,c,d   Aguirre Gutiérrez, Jesús ^e,f   Gallagher, Laura E ^b   Henshaw, Sion M ^b   Besnard, Aurélien ^g   Tucker, Rachel M ^d,h   Bachraz, Vishnu ^b   Ruhomaun, Kevin ^b   Harris, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b National Parks and Conservation Service   (Mauritius)

^c DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

^e NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORECASTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MADAGASCAR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAURITIUS; NONHUMAN; PHELSUMA GRANDIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIZARD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIZARDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899755867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088798     Document Type: Article

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