Fifty years of rodent eradications in New Zealand: Another decade of advances

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 197-204

  Russell, James C ^a,b   Broome, Keith G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biosecurity; Conservation; Islands; Mice; Mus; Rats; Rattus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXTINCTION; RODENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAKEHOLDER;

AUSTRALIA; MARIA ISLAND; NEW ZEALAND; TASMANIA;

MUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84954285955     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: 11777788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20417/nzjecol.40.22     Document Type: Article

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