Risk assessment of birds foraging terrestrially at Marion and Gough Islands to primary and secondary poisoning by rodenticides

• Main Authors: Wanless, R. M., Cooper, J., Slabber, M. J., Ryan, P. G.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: CSIRO Publishing 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; Gough; Chionis; Antarc*; Antarctic Skuas; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/120856

Context. Aerial application of poison bait pellets is an established and widely used method for removing invasive rodents and restoring insular ecological processes. However, the non-target effects of saturation poisoning require very careful consideration and precautionary risk-avoidance strategies...