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Use of gulls rather than terns to evaluate American Mink Mustela vison control. A response to Craik (2008)

Ratcliffe, N.

https://doi.org/10.61350/sbj.21.104

British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK

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Introduction

I thank Clive Craik for the opportunity to clarify points made in the 2006 paper. Clive presents a convincing argument that gull rather than tern productivity was a better indicator of the benefits of mink control during his study. However, I maintain that I was justified in restricting the analysis to terns in my study for three reasons:

References

Ratcliffe, N., Craik, C., Helyar, A., Roy, S. & Scott, M. 2008. Modelling the benefits of mink management options for terns in West Scotland. Ibis 150 (Suppl. 1): 114–121. [Crossref]