Interspecific competitive interactions between Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus

• Main Author: Foster, Stacey Patricia
• Other Authors: King, Carolyn M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Waikato 2010
• Subjects: Rattus rattus; Rattus norvegicus; competition; interactions; New Zealand; Island Lake; Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4287

Interspecific competition is observed when one species experiences reduced survivorship or fecundity, due to another controlling access to resources either through being superior at harvesting a shared resource (exploitation competition), or physically preventing the other species from accessing the...