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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.004
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... In Australia, the introduced house mouse, Mus domesticus , causes obvious and severe agricultural damage, particularly during mouse plagues where population densities may exceed 1,000 mice/ha. The aim of any pest control is to reduce the damage caused by the pest, not to reduce pest numbers...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2004) 32 (4): 605–628.
Published: 01 December 2004
... . 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...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.025
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... case studies that illustrate how these interactions develop between pests and native animals. In the first case study, house mice ( Mus domesticus ) introduced to Boullanger Island in Western Australia have direct effects on a small dasyurid marsupial ( Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensis...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 January 2019
... 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...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 562–581.
Published: 01 September 2017
... 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...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2012) 35 (4): 979–982.
Published: 29 January 2012
...., Pech, R.P., Jacop, J., Mutze, G.J., Krebs, C.J., 2005. One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia–a natural biological curio. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84, 617–627. One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia–a natural biological curio Biological Journal...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (1): 57–64.
Published: 17 March 2014
... 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...
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Why are there so many Spotted-tailed Quolls Dasyurus maculatus in parts of north-eastern New South Wales?
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 711–718.
Published: 20 October 2011
... to ongoing predator management. Confirmation that behavioural responses at the level of the individual often translate to population-level shifts has been obtained for several species, such as Snowshoe Hares Lepus americanus (Hik 1995) and House Mice Mus domesticus (Dickman 1992; Arthur et al. 2004, 2005...
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Responses of four Critical Weight Range (CWR) marsupials to the odours of native and introduced predators
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 217–222.
Published: 17 March 2014
... or placental predators and there is equivocal evidence in assessing whether placental prey species respond to marsupial predator odours or if co-evolution matters. Introduced House Mice Mus domesticus avoid the faecal odour of the Red Fox, the Feral Cat Felis catus, and to a lesser degree the native Western...
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Distribution, habitat and conservation status of Leggadina lakedownensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Queensland
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 258–264.
Published: 17 March 2014
... 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...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 406–409.
Published: 17 March 2014
... 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...
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Altering reality – sensory tactics to manage wildlife and conserve threatened species
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 510–517.
Published: 08 March 2024
... to rapid increases in pest populations that wreak havoc on food production. In Australia, house mice (Mus musculus) are a major agricultural pest that can rapidly increase in population (i.e., plague) at least every four years. Mouse plagues can cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in crop losses...
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Another World: The composition and consequences of the Introduced Mammal fauna of New Zealand
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (1): 108–118.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of the most widespread, successful, and economically and ecologically damaging mammals currently present in New Zealand arrived there accidentally. House mice Mus domesticus and Norway rats R. norvegicus most probably arrived as stowaways with the first European explorers, whales and sealers in the late 1700s...
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The diet of a Southern Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae in Box-Ironbark country, central Victoria
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (1): 85–88.
Published: 04 October 2011
... 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...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 January 2019
... records it appears that the plagues 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...
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Rat lungworm, Cryptosporidium and other zoonotic pathogens of Rattus rattus and native wildlife on Sydney's Northern beaches
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 231–251.
Published: 09 May 2024
... captured at seven sites and 28 swabs were taken from traps. Bush rats were captured 47 times and 15 swabs taken from two sites, while brown antechinus were captured 36 times with 5 swabs taken from three sites. House mice (Mus musculus) were captured 17 times from four sites and 3 swabs were taken from...
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A survey of the mammal fauna of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage region, New South Wales
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 24 (4): 197–204.
Published: 17 March 2014
... 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...
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Unique and Valuable but Untouched Research Opportunities Using Exotic Mammals in Australasia
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 420–430.
Published: 17 March 2014
... 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...
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Space, Structure, and Refuge from Predation: Artificial Habitat for Ground-Dwelling Wildlife
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2025) 44 (2): 343–355.
Published: 14 February 2025
... of predation risk in field trials with house mice (Mus musculus) (Arthur et al. 2004). Animals with places to hide are less stressed and more likely to have greater breeding success (Preisser et al. 2005). Generally speaking, structurally complex habitat provides refuge from predation, and reduces the impact...
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Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 513–519.
Published: 01 September 2018
... 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...
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