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Reynolds, JC, Richardson, SM, Rodgers, BJE, Rodgers, ORK (2013).
Effective control of non-native American mink by strategic trapping in a river catchment in mainland Britain.
Journal of Wildlife Management
77(3): 545-554.
Porteus, T, Short, M, Richardson, S, Reynolds, J (2012).
Empirical development of strategy for the control of invasive American mink by trapping.
European Journal of Wildlife Research
58(2): 403-413.
Reynolds, JC, Porteus, TA, Richardson, SM, Leigh, RJ & Short, MJ (2010).
Detectability of American mink using rafts to solicit field signs in a population control context.
Journal of Wildlife Management
74:1601–1606.
Reynolds, JC (2009).
American mink: the art of the possible and national aspirations for biodiversity.
International Urban Ecology Review
4: 74-82.
Reynolds, JC, Short, MJ & Leigh, RJ (2004).
Development of population control strategies for mink (
Mustela vison
), using floating rafts as monitors and trap sites.
Biological Conservation
120: 533-543.
Short, MJ & Reynolds, JC (2001).
Physical exclusion of non-target species in tunnel-trapping of mammalian pests.
Biological Conservation
98: 139-147.
Sheail, J (2004). The mink menace: The politics of vertebrate pest control.
Rural History
, 15(2): 207–222.
Jeffries, DJ (2003).
The water vole and mink survey of Britain 1996-1998 with a history of the long-term changes in the status of both species and their causes
. The Vincent Wildlife Trust. 234pp.
Macdonald, DW & Strachan, R (1999).
The mink and the water vole. Analyses for conservation
. Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Oxford University. 161pp.
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