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Establishing causes of eradication failure based on genetics: case study of ship rat eradication in Ste. Anne archipelago.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Jun 2007
Abdelkrim Jawad, Pascal Michel, Samadi Sarah
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Determining the causes of a failed eradication of a pest species is important because it enables an argued adjustment of the methodologies used and the improvement of the protocols for future attempts. We examined how molecular monitoring can help distinguish between the two main reasons for an eradication failure (i.e., survival of some individuals vs. recolonization after eradication). We investigated genetic...
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