... . Shortridge speculated that disease, predation by feral cats Felis catus , competition from house mice Mus musculus , and bushfires were major factors in overall decline, and the impact of closer settlement was important in localised declines. These, and other factors commonly cited as reasons for mammal...

... to the perceived risk it poses to endemic land birds and breeding seabirds. However, its main diet there comprises Rattus rattus and House Mice Mus musculus and because it is proposed to eradicate these rodents from the island in 2019, the owls are also scheduled for removal then due to the likelihood...

... on day three or when animals had been caught. Traps were checked within two hours of sunrise and, apart from House Mice Mus musculus (euthanased as per the requirements of my scientific and ethics licences), captured animals were generally released after identification. Surveys method for Eastern...

.... One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia a natural biological curio. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84, 617 627. Williams, P.G., 2007. Nutritional composition of red meat. Nutrition & Dietetics 64 (Suppl. 4): s113-s119. Online: http ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

... on the fifth day with high daily captures subsequently (Table 3). Tabk I . Numbers of Captures of House Mice caughr in the different trar, t y ~ s in the survey sites. Trap type Survey site Type A Type E Pitfall L a b centre 91 50 6 Lake edge 39 10 30 Black Box 1 0 7 Canegrass 13 6 i l Tabk 2. Numbers...

... of prédation on enclosed populations of house mice. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 867-877. Habitat structure mediates the non-lethal effects of prédation on enclosed populations of house mice Journal of Animal Ecology 73 867 877 Arthur, A. D., Pech, R. P. and Dickman, C. R. 2005. Effects...

... of the Royal Society of London B 270 1957 1963 Powell, F. and Banks, P. B. 2004. Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat? Animal Behaviour 67: 753-759. Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat? Animal...

... Moro, D. and Morris, K.D. 2000. Population structure and dynamics of sympatric house mice, Mus domesticus, and the Lakeland Downs short-tailed mice, Leggadina lakedownensis, on Thevenard Island, Western Australia. Wildlife Research 27: 257-68. Population structure and dynamics of sympatric house mice...

... NSW NPWS 1999. Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, Lion Island, Long Island, and Spectacle Island Nature Reserves Draft Plan of Management. Hurstville: NSW NPWS. Powell, F. and Banks, P.B., in press. Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat? Animal...

... ecology of mice in New Zealand. Pp. 163-171 in The Ecology and Control of Rodents in New Zealand Nature Reserves, edited by C. Hay. The Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington. The Ecology and Control of Rodents in New Zealand Nature Reserves 163 171 Fitzgerald, B.M. 1990. House cat. Pp. 330...

... 43% and beetles (Coleoptera) 29.2%. Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) were the most common prey item, representing 36.1% of the total prey individuals. House Mice Mus domesticus occurred in most pellets and represented 18.1% of the prey individuals identified. Some fragments of grass were also present in one...

... are commonly the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the brown rat (R. norvegicus), and house mice (Mus musculus), but there are also 66 species of native rodents in Australia. The house mice frequent the highly modified agricultural habitats not used by native mice (FAQs about Mouse Plagues, 2003, p. 2) perhaps...

... The results of the combined pitfall and Elliott trapping are summarized in Table 4. Twenty-nine small mammals were trapped, of which 26 were House Mice, Mus mus- culus. Two further species, Planigale tenuirostris and Sminthopsis crassicaudata were collected by the herpetologists in pitfalls on Lake Garnpang...

... size and the evolution of social organization in macropod marsupials Journal of Animal Ecology 69 1083 1098 Fitzgerald, B.M., Daniel, M.J., Fitzgerald, A.E., Karl, B.J., Meads, M.J. and Notman, P.R. 1996. Factors affecting the numbers of house mice (Mus musculus) in hard beech (Nothofagus...

... structure on the population dynamics of house mice in large outdoor enclosures. Oikos 108: 562-572 httpsdoi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13327.x Banks, P. B., Cleary, G. P., Dickman, C. R. 2011. Sydney s plague outbreak 1900-1910: a disaster for foreshore wildlife? Pp. 1033-1039 in Wildlife responses...

... are probably sustained nestlings mid-morning or at dusk (Saunders 1982). on House Mice (Mus musculus), lizards, and smaller hollow-nesting bird species (Pearson et al. 2002). This Acknowledgements idea is consistent with the ontogenetic or size-determined switch from ambush feeding to actively foraging...

.... and Singleton, G.R. 2006. Self-regulation within outbreak populations of feral house mice: a test of alternative models. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 584-594. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01081.x Werner, J.R., Gillis, E.A., Boonstra, R., and Krebs, C.J. 2016. You can hide but you can t run: apparent...

... University Press, Ames, Iowa. Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals 3 17 Smith, A.L., Singleton, G.R., Hansen, G.M. and Shellam, G. 1993. A serologic survey for viruses and Mycoplasma pulmonis among wild house mice (Mus domesticus) in southeastern Australia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 29: 219-229...