Do bromadiolone treatments to control grassland water voles (<i>Arvicola scherman</i>) affect small mustelid abundance?

Fernández-de-Simón, Javier; Cœurdassier, Michaël; Couval, Geoffroy; Fourel, Isabelle; Giraudoux, Patrick

doi:10.1002/ps.5194

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Do bromadiolone treatments to control grassland water voles (Arvicola scherman) affect small mustelid abundance?

Published in Pest Management Science • Sep 2, 2018

Authors:

Javier Fernández-de-Simón

Michaël Cœurdassier

Geoffroy Couval

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The use of pesticides can affect non-target species by causing population declines through indirect intoxication. Small mustelids (SMs; weasels, Mustela nivalis L.; stoats, Mustela erminea L.) consume water voles (WVs, Arvicola scherman S.) and can be exposed to bromadiolone, an anticoag...

Subject

Abundance (ecology)

Rodenticide

Vole

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