Do introduced mammals chronically impact the breeding success of the world’s rarest albatross?

Ornithological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-46

  Thiebot, Jean Baptiste ^a,b,c   Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Delord, Karine ^a   Marteau, Cédric ^b   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Réserve Naturelle Nationale des Terres Australes Françaises TAAF ^*  (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amsterdam albatross diomedea amsterdamensis; Camera trapping; Conservation; Invasive species; Seabird

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920047928     PISSN: 13470558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2326/osj.13.41     Document Type: Article

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