Discriminating the drivers of edge effects on nest predation: Forest edges reduce capture rates of ship rats (rattus rattus), a globally invasive nest predator, by altering vegetation structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ruffell, Jay ^a   Didham, Raphael K ^a,b   Barrett, Paul ^c   Gorman, Nic ^c   Pike, Rhonda ^c   Hickey Elliott, Andrée ^c   Sievwright, Karin ^c   Armstrong, Doug P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOREST; FOREST EDGE; GRAZING; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; NEST PREDATION; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

ANIMALS; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS;

EID: 84913534685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113098     Document Type: Article

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