...Catherine J. Price; Peter B. Banks ABSTRACT Despite their conspicuousness within urban environments, the ecology of commensal species is poorly understood. Urban environments are thought to provide abundant foraging and shelter resources for commensal species such as Black Rats Rattus rattus...

...Paul Meek; Richard Hawksby; Athol Ardler; Matt Hudson; Kersten Tuckey Ground baiting was carried out in an operational pest control program between 1993 and 1995 aimed at eradicating Black rats Rattus rattus from Bowen Island in Jervis Bay. Rattus rattus was abundant across most of the Island...

...-ring-gai Chase National Park, near Sydney Australia by comparing the first-night trap success of traps with experimental addition of domestic dog faeces placed near the trap entrance to control traps. Bush Rats Rattus fuscipes , the most abundant species captured, showed no aversion to dog faecal...

...David Milledge; Hank Bower; Nicholas Carlile ABSTRACT The Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae was introduced to Lord Howe Island in the 1920s to control an irruption of the Black Rat Rattus rattus . The owl is a threatened species in New South Wales but is regarded as a pest on the island due...

... is dominated by introduced Black Rats Rattus rattus . In particular, the Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes is absent yet remains abundant in comparable habitats to the north and south of Sydney; the last record of the Bush Rat near Sydney Harbour is from 1901. In this paper we explore the idea that the arrival...

... ideas can have dangerous consequences for science as some ideas may be unfairly favoured because of the apparent supporting literature. Here we trace a specific example—the impacts of black rats Rattus rattus on Australian islands—and demonstrate how ambiguous or incorrect citations may lead...

...-74. Does dingo predation or buffalo competition regulate feral pig- populations in the Australian wet-dry tropics - an experimental-study Wildlife Research 22 65 74 Cox, M.P.G., Dickman, C.R. and Cox, W.G. 2000. Use of habitat by the black rat (Rattus rattus) at North Head, New South...

...Peter Green Two endemic rat species, Rattus macleari and R. nativitatis , went extinct on Christmas Island more than a century ago, contributing to an unenviable record of mammal extinctions in Australia. This paper provides the historical context for the extinctions, and shows they were...

... the garage. 1863) and behavioural observations (Scarff et al. Black Rats Rattus rattus were occasionally found 1998; Traill and Coates 1993). Phascogales feed in the garage and this introduced rodent is known extensively on invertebrates stripped from the bark to raid bird nests (Amarasekare 1993; Banks...

... with prey in their mouths, and on two occasions prey was expectorated upon capture. Adult M. iteratus were observed with prey on five occasions. A 100 g adult female barred frog with an SVL of 87 mm was observed with an 80 mm long (excluding tail), 22 g juvenile Black Rat Rattus rattus in its mouth (Fig. 1...

..., edited by C.M. King. Oxford University Press, Auckland. The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals 277 287 Atkinson, I.A.E. 1985. The spread of commensal species of Rattus to oceanic islands and their effects on island avifaunas. Pp. 35-81 in Conservation of Island Birds, edited by P.J. Moors...

... ecological community on Schedule 1, Part 3 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995. NSW Scientific Committee. 2000b. Final determination to list predation from the Ship Rat Rattus rattus on Lord Howe Island as a key threatening process on Schedule 3 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995...

... analyses of changes in community structure. Australian Journal of Ecology18: 117-143 Non-parametric multivariate analyses of changes in community structure Australian Journal of Ecology 18 117 14 Cox, M. P. G., Dickman, C. R. and Cox, W. G. 2000. Use of habitat by the black rat (Rattus rattus...

... Rattus rattus and two Antechinus stuartii in the valley. In winter and summer the Committee is mapping the distribution of flying-foxes in the valley. A local boy admitted to catching and eating 20 yabbies. By the end of 1990 about 1.5 hectares, the most severely degraded area, will have been regenerated...

... Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 61: 465-477. Non-volant mammals of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia Records of the Western Australian Museum 465 477 Morris, K.D. 2002. The eradication of the black rat (Rattus rattus) on Barrow and adjacent...

... Bureau of Meteorology 2000.Queensland Rainfall Data, Data Services, National Climate Centre. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, http//:www.bom.gov.au. http//:www.bom.gov.au Carstairs, J.L. 1974. The distribution of Rattus villosissimus (Waite) during plague and non-plague years. Australian Wildlife...

... years; the diet was dominated by small terrestrial mammals, in particular the Black Rat Rattus rattus (Table 3). It is evident that Black Rat was an important prey of the Masked Owls from before the habitat clearing as well as during and after, making up the greatest proportion of the diet in terms...

... and Maragle State Forests (1 100 trap nights costing 52 person hours) detected the presence of Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes , Dusky Antechinus Antechinus swainsonii and Brown Antechinus Antechinus stuartii . Rattus fuscipes proved to be abundant in some localities. Records made by nocturnal survey (253 sites...