The responses of New Zealand's arboreal forest birds to invasive mammal control

• Main Author: Iona Fea (11209401)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology); Population Ecology; Terrestrial Ecology; Bird population; Pest mammal; Monitoring; Biodiversity; Avian ecology; Outcome monitoring; Restoration; Native bird; 1080 control; Density impact function; School: School of Biological Sciences; Unit: Centre for Biodiversity and Restoration of Ecology; 060207 Population Ecology; 060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology); 060208 Terrestrial Ecology; Degree Discipline: Ecology and Biodiversity; Degree Level: Doctoral; Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy; Nestor; New Zealand; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.17072129.v1

Introduced mammalian predators are responsible for over half of contemporary extinctions and declines of birds. Endemic bird species on islands are particularly vulnerable to invasions of mammalian predators. The native bird species that remain in New Zealand forests continue to be threatened by pre...