A review of the evidence for potential impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) on wildlife and humans in Australia

By P. Banks, Nelika K. Hughes. Wildlife research (East Melbourne), 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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The next generation of rodent eradications: Innovative technologies and tools to improve species specificity and increase their feasibility on islands (2015, background): “Invasive rodents negatively impact stored foods, crops, and infrastructure and can carry zoo-notic diseases that can impact the health of people and their live-stock (Banks and Hughes, 2012; Meerburg et al., 2009; Stenseth et al., 2003).”
Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 11. Rattus rattus, the Black Rat (Rodentia: Muridae) (2014, background): “Symptoms of these bacterial infections in humans can include headaches and muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, mental confusion, rash, pneumonia, encephalitis, and heart failure ( Banks and Hughes 2012).”
Multiple threats, or multiplying the threats? Interactions between invasive predators and other ecological disturbances (2015, background): “, 2001) and disease (Banks and Hughes, 2012), invasive mammalian predators are among the most damaging of all invasive species.”
The Importance of Islands for the Protection of Biological and Linguistic Diversity (2015, background): “Invasive rodents also compete directly with rural people for food; damage property; spread diseases, such as leptospirosis; and suppress native species that provide valuable ecosystem services (Mwebaze et al. 2010, Banks and Hughes 2012).”
Rating the rat: Global patterns and research priorities in impacts and management of rodent pests (2014, background): “Investors should consider the emerging temporal trends, especially in the impacts we studied, as attention on ecosystems and public health is expected to become increasingly intense (Meerburg et al. 2009, Banks & Hughes 2012).”
Risk vs. reward: how predators and prey respond to aging olfactory cues (2013, background): “Both species prey upon smaller animals up to approximately their own body size (Banks and Hughes 2012), but are also themselves prey to larger carnivores (e.g., tiger quolls Dasyurus maculatus (Snyder et al. 1996; Dawson et al. 2007), wild dogs/dingoes Canis lupus familiarus/dingo (Mitchell and…”