Release of constraints on nest-site selection in burrow-nesting petrels following invasive rat eradication

Biological Invasions

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1453-1470

  Buxton, Rachel T ^a   Anderson, Dean ^b   Moller, Henrik ^a   Jones, Christopher J ^b   Lyver, Philip O’B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical modeling; Density dependence; Nesting habitat; Pacific rats; Procellariiformes; Restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939975107     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0807-x     Document Type: Article

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