Sydney's bubonic plague outbreak 1900-1910: A disaster for foreshore wildlife?

Australian Zoologist

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1033-1039

  Banks, Peter B ^a,b   Cleary, Grainne P ^a,b   Dickman, Chris R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alien species; Black rat; Bush rat; Local extinction; Rattus fuscipes; Rottus rattus

Indexed keywords

BUSHLAND; CULLING; DISASTER; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PORT; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; VEGETATION COVER; ZOO;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY HARBOUR;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS FUSCIPES; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 84857858993     PISSN: 00672238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2011.058     Document Type: Review

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