Using passive detection devices to monitor occupancy of ship rats (Rattus rattus) in new zealand temperate rainforest

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-86

  Christie, Jennifer E ^a   Mackenzie, Darryl I ^b   Greene, Terry C ^a   Sim, Joanna L ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants   (New Zealand)

^c NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beech forest; Detection probability; Fuscospora; Lophozonia; Nothofagus; Removal trapping; Rodents; Site occupancy; Tracking tunnels

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RAINFOREST; RODENT; SITE FIDELITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING; TRAPPING;

EGLINTON VALLEY; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

FAGUS; MAMMALIA; NOTHOFAGUS; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84934177924     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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