Bait acceptance by house mice: An island field trial

Wildlife Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 806-811

  Wanless, Ross M ^a,b   Fisher, Penny ^c   Cooper, John ^a,b   Parkes, John ^c   Ryan, Peter G ^a   Slabber, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Conservation and Restoration ^*  (South Africa)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAIT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; MOVEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; REFUGIUM; RODENT; TRAPPING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GOUGH ISLAND; SAINT HELENA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

AVES; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 58149117934     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR08045     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Angel, A., and Cooper, J. (2006). 'A Review of the Impacts of Introduced Rodents on the Islands of Tristan da Cunha and Gough.' (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: Sandy, UK.)
2. Angel, A., Wanless, R. M., and Cooper, J. (In press). Review of impacts of the introduced house mouse on islands in the Southern Ocean: are mice equivalent to rats? Biological Invasions.
3. Brown, D. (2007). A feasibility study for the eradication of rodents from Tristan da Cunha. Report to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK. (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: Sandy, UK.)
4. Cocucci, A. A., and Sersic, A. N. (1998). Evidence of rodent pollination in Cajophora coronata (Loasaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 211, 113-128. doi: 10.1007/BF00984916
5. Courchamp, F., Clutton-Brock, T., and Grenfell, B. (1999). Inverse density dependence and the Allee effect. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14, 405. doi: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01683-3
6. Cuthbert, R. (2004). Breeding biology and population estimate of the Atlantic Petrel, Pterodroma incerta, and other burrowing petrels at Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Emu 104, 221-228. doi: 10.1071/MU03037
7. Fisher, P. (1999). Review of using Rhodamine B as a marker for wildlife studies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 27, 318-329.
8. Fisher, P. (2005). Review of house mouse (Mus musculus) susceptibility to anticoagulant poisons. DOC Science Internal Series 198, 1-18.
9. Hickson, R. E., Moller, H., and Garrick, A. S. (1986). Poisoning rats on Stewart Island. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 9, 111-121.
10. Howald, G., Donlan, C. J., Galvan, J. P., Russell, J. C., Parkes, J., Samaniego, A., Wang, Y., Veitch, D., Genovesi, P., Pascal, M., Saunders, A., and Tershy, B. (2007). Invasive rodent eradication on islands. Conservation Biology 21, 1258-1268. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00755.x
11. Jacob, J., Jones, D. A., and Singleton, G. R. (2002). Retention of the bait marker RhodamineBin wild house mice. Wildlife Research 29, 159-164. doi: 10.1071/WR01073
12. Jones, A. G., Chown, S. L., and Gaston, K. J. (2003). Introduced house mouse as a conservation concern on Gough Island. Biological Conservation 12, 2107-2119.
13. le Maitre, R. W. (1960). The geology of Gough Island, South Atlantic. Overseas Geology and Mineral Resources 7, 371-380.
14. MacKay, J. W. B., Russell, J. C., and Murphy, E. C. (2007). Eradicating mice from islands: successes, failures and the way forward. In 'Managing Vertebrate Invasive Species: Proceedings of an International Symposium'. (Eds G. W. Witmer, W. C. Pitt and K. A. Fagerstone.) pp. 294-304. (United States Department of Agriculture: Fort Collins.)
15. McClelland, P., and Tyree, P. (2002). Eradication. The clearance of Campbell. New Zealand Geographer 58, 86-94.
16. Morriss, G. A., O'Connor, C. E., Airey, E. T., and Fisher, P. (2008). Factors influencing acceptance and efficacy of toxic baits in ship rats, Norway rats and house mice. Science for Conservation 282. [Department of Conservation: Wellington, New Zealand.]
17. O'Connor, C. E., and Booth, I. H. (2001). Palatability of rodent baits to wild house mice. Science for Conservation 184. [Department of Conservation: Wellington, New Zealand.]
18. Parkes, J. P. (In press). 'Feasibility Plan to Eradicate Mice (Mus musculus) from Gough Island.' (The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: Sandy, UK.)
19. Ryan, P. G. (2007). 'A Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island.' (Pisces Publications: Newbury, UK.)
20. Towns, D. R., and Broome, K. G. (2003). From small Maria to massive Campbell: forty years of rat eradications fromNewZealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 30, 377-398.
21. Towns, D. R., Atkinson, I. A. E., and Daugherty, C. H. (2006). Have the harmful effects of introduced rats on islands been exaggerated? Biological Invasions 8, 863-891. doi: 10.1007/s10530-005-0421-z
22. Wace, N. M. (1961). The vegetation on Gough Island. Ecological Monographs 31, 337-367. doi: 10.2307/1950757
23. Wanless, R. M. (2007). Impacts of the introduced house mouse on the seabirds of Gough Island. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
24. Wanless, R. M., and Wilson, J. W. (2007). Predatory behaviour of the Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri: conservation implications. Ardea 95, 311-315.
25. Wanless, R. M., Angel, A., Cuthbert, R. J., Hilton, G. M., and Ryan, P. G. (2007). Can predation by invasive mice drive seabird extinctions? Biology Letters 3, 241-244. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0120
26. Zar, J. H. (1999). 'Biostatistical Analysis.' 4th edn. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.)