Differential population responses of native and alien rodents to an invasive predator, habitat alteration and plant masting

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1773, 2013, Pages

  Fukasawa, Keita ^a   Miyashita, Tadashi ^b   Hashimoto, Takuma ^c   Tatara, Masaya ^d   Abe, Shintaro ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^d Japan Ministry of the Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amami Island; Bayesian state space model; Bottom up effect; Mesopredator release; Predator prey interaction; Top down effect

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CARNIVORE; CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; MASTING; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; RODENT; SUCCESSION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

AMAMI ISLAND; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN STATE-SPACE MODEL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOTTOM-UP EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MESOPREDATOR RELEASE; MONGOOSE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAT; TOP-DOWN EFFECT;

AMAMI ISLAND; BAYESIAN STATE-SPACE MODEL; BOTTOM-UP EFFECT; MESOPREDATOR RELEASE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TOP-DOWN EFFECT;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HERPESTIDAE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RATS;

AMAMI ISLAND; AMAMI ISLANDS; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU;

EID: 84902654141     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2075     Document Type: Article

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