Identifying eradication units in an invasive mammalian pest species

Biological Invasions

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1481-1496

  Adams, A L ^a   van Heezik, Y ^a   Dickinson, K J M ^a   Robertson, B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eradication units; Invasions; Microsatellite; Population structure; Reinvasion; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REINTRODUCTION;

NEW ZEALAND;

MAMMALIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 84902295957     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0586-9     Document Type: Article

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