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... . 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...

...., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...