Strategic rat control for restoring populations of native species in forest fragments

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 713-723

  Armstrong, Doug P ^a   Gorman, Nic ^a   Pike, Rhonda ^a   Kreigenhofer, Brigitte ^a   Mcarthur, Nikki ^a   Govella, Susanne ^a   Barrett, Paul ^a   Richard, Yvan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; Fecundity; Population modeling; Predator control; Private land; Survival

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; NATIVE SPECIES; PEST CONTROL; PREDATOR CONTROL; RODENT; SUBPOPULATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

PETROICA; RATTUS;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; PEST CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEST CONTROL; RATS; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84900389281     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12256     Document Type: Article

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