Recent publications
Anderson DP, Ramsey DSL, Nugent G, Bosson M, Livingstone P, Martin PAJ, Sergeant E, Gormley AM, Warburton B 2013. A novel approach to assess the probability of disease eradication from a wild-animal reservoir host. Epidemiology and Infection 141: 1509–1521.
Bridgman LJ, Innes J, Gillies C, Fitzgerald NB, King CM 2013. Do ship rats display predatory behaviour towards house mice? Animal Behaviour 86: 257–268.
Cowan P, Brown S 2013. Best practice management for humane and effective vertebrate pest control. Welfare Pulse 13: 12.
Cowan P, Forrester G, Warburton B 2013. Short-term welfare implications of capture-mark-recapture trapping of medium-sized mammals: the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) as a case study. Animal Welfare 22: 423–428.
Cruz J, Glen AS, Pech RP 2013. Modelling landscape-level numerical responses of predators to prey: the case of cats and rabbits. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73544.
Fisher P 2013. Countdown to prohibition of glueboard traps for rodents. Welfare Pulse 15: 8.
Glen AS, Cockburn S, Nichols M, Ekanayake J, Warburton B 2013. Optimising camera traps for monitoring small mammals. PLoS ONE 8(6): e67940.
Gortazar C, Cowan P 2013. Introduction to this issue: dealing with TB in wildlife. Epidemiology and Infection 141: 1339–1341.
Hoare JM, Monks A, O’Donnell CFJ 2013. Do population indicators work? Investigating correlated responses of bird populations in relation to predator management. Ecological Indicators 25: 23–34.
Holland EP, Pech RP, Ruscoe WA, Parkes JP, Nugent G, Duncan RP 2013. Thresholds in plant–herbivore interactions: predicting plant mortality due to herbivore browse damage. Oecologia 172: 751–766.
Jones C, Norbury G, Bell T 2013. Impacts of introduced European hedgehogs on endemic skinks and weta in tussock grassland. Wildlife Research 40: 36–44.
Morgan DR, Arrow J, Smith MP 2013. Combining aspirin with cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) – a potential new tool for controlling possum populations. PLoS ONE 8(8): e70683.
Norbury G, Byrom AE, Pech R, Smith J, Clarke D, Anderson DP, Forrester G 2013. Invasive mammals and habitat modification interact to generate unforeseen outcomes for indigenous fauna. Ecological Applications 23: 1707–1721.
Nugent G, Morriss GA 2013. Delivery of toxic bait in clusters: a modified technique for aerial poisoning of small mammal pests. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37: 246–255.
Nugent G, Yockney I, Whitford J, Cross ML 2013. Mortality rate and gross pathology due to tuberculosis in wild brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) following low dose subcutaneous injection of Mycobacterium bovis. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 109: 168–175.
Ruscoe WA, Sweetapple PJ, Perry M, Duncan RP 2013. Effects of spatially extensive control of invasive rats on abundance of native invertebrates in mainland New Zealand forests. Conservation Biology 27: 74–82.
Tompkins DM, Buddle BM, Whitford J, Cross ML, Yates GF, Lambeth MR, Nugent G 2013. Sustained protection against tuberculosis conferred to a wildlife host by single dose oral vaccination. Vaccine 31: 893–899.
Tompkins DM, Byrom AE, Pech R 2013. Predicted responses of invasive mammal communities to climate-related changes in mast frequency in forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 23: 1075–1085.
Veale AJ, EdgeK-A, McMurtrie P, Fewster RM, Clout MN, Gleeson DM 2013. Using genetic techniques to quantify reinvasion, survival and in situ breeding rates during control operations. Molecular Ecology 22: 5071–5083.
Yockney IJ, Nugent G, Latham MC, Perry M, Cross ML, Byrom AE 2013. Comparison of ranging behaviour in a multi-species complex of free-ranging hosts of bovine tuberculosis in relation to their use as disease sentinels. Epidemiology and Infection 141: 1407–1416.