Antipodes antipasto: mice make a meal of Subantarctic insects

Poster Invertibrate surveys on Antipodes Island and adjacent Bollons Island provided a unique opportunity to examine the impact of mouse predation on the invertibrate fauna. The diversity and abundance of larger beetle species (length >4mm) on mouse-infested Antipodes Island were compared with th...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Main Author: Marris John, WM
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University. Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 2004
Subjects:
subantarctic
invertebrates
beetles
mouse predation
Antipodes Island
ANZSRC::060808 Invertebrate Biology
ANZSRC::0602 Ecology
Bollons Island
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10182/5721
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Summary:Poster Invertibrate surveys on Antipodes Island and adjacent Bollons Island provided a unique opportunity to examine the impact of mouse predation on the invertibrate fauna. The diversity and abundance of larger beetle species (length >4mm) on mouse-infested Antipodes Island were compared with those of mouse-free Bollons Island.

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