Competition in an invaded rodent community reveals black rats as a threat to native bush rats in littoral rainforest of south-eastern Australia.

By V. Stokes, P. Banks, R. Pech, D. Spratt. 2009

84 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. A. Shiels
2. A. Carthey
3. Jenna P. Bytheway
4. Stephen M. Mosher
5. César A. Flores
6. A. Khamsing
7. Paul D. Krushelnycky
8. W. Pitt

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. A. Shiels
2. Stephen M. Mosher
3. César A. Flores
4. P. Banks
5. A. Mortelliti
6. D. Capizzi
7. S. Bertolino
8. A. Carthey

Citations in the corpus

• Risk vs. reward: how predators and prey respond to aging olfactory cues (2013, background): “They are morphologically very similar to their native congener, the bush rat, with which they share similar life history traits and ecological niches in the Australian environment (Braithwaite et al. 1978; Braithwaite and Gullan 1978; Stokes et al. 2009).”
• A review of the evidence for potential impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) on wildlife and humans in Australia (2012, background): “Whether this pattern is the result of habitat preference or competition remains to be tested, although the results of Stokes et al. (2009b) suggest it may be a consequence of the black rat’s invasive potential to newly disturbed habitats.”
• Dietary niche differentiation among three species of invasive rodents (Rattus rattus, R. exulans, Mus musculus) (2013, background): “Stokes et al. (2009) in Australia, and Harris and Macdonald (2007) in the Galápagos Islands, demonstrated that native rats (R. fuscipes and Nesoryzomys swarthi, respectively) suffered from interference competition rather than resource competition with the larger, non-native black rats.”
• Rating the rat: Global patterns and research priorities in impacts and management of rodent pests (2014, background): “It is surprising to note that only a relatively small number of papers has been published in last decade on the basic ecology of these species (see Sutherland et al. 2005, Stokes et al. 2009, Ruscoe et al. 2011, Heiberg et al. 2012).”
• Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 11. Rattus rattus, the Black Rat (Rodentia: Muridae) (2014, background): “Stokes et al. (2009) in Australia, and Harris and Macdonald (2007) in the Galápagos demonstrated that native rats (Rattus fuscipes and Nesoryzomys swarthi, respectively) suffered from interference competition with nonnative R. rattus.”