Recent publications
Brown S, Warburton B, Fisher P, Bunt CR 2012.Optimising the palatability and longevity of stoat baits. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 39: 229–243.
Fisher P, Funnell E, Fairweather A, Brown L, Campion M 2011. Accidental discharge of brodifacoum baits into a freshwater lake: a case study. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 88: 226–228.
Forsyth DM, Gormley AM, Woodford L, Fitzgerald T 2012. Effects of large-scale high-severity fire on occupancy and abundances of an invasive large mammal in south-eastern Australia. Wildlife Research 39: 555 –564.
Gormley AM, Holland EP, Pech RP, Thomson C, Reddiex B 2012. Impacts of an invasive herbivore on indigenous forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 1296–1305.
Jones C, Barron M, Warburton B, Coleman M, Lyver P, Nugent G 2012. Serving two masters: reconciling economic and biodiversity outcomes of brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) fur harvest in an indigenous New Zealand forest. Biological Conservation 153: 143– 152.
Latham ADM, Nugent G, Warburton B 2012. Evaluation of camera traps for monitoring European rabbits before and after control operations in Otago, New Zealand. Wildlife Research 39: 621 –628.
Lim ML, Brady H, Hambling T, Sexton K, Tompkins D, Slaney D 2012. Rickettsia felis infections, New Zealand. Emerging Infectious Diseases 18: 167 – 169.
MacLeod CJ, Blackwell G, Benge J 2012. Reduced pesticide toxicity and increased woody vegetation cover account for enhanced native bird densities in organic orchards. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 652 –660.
MacLeod CJ, Blackwell G, Weller F, Moller H 2012. Designing a scheme for monitoring changes in bird abundance in New Zealand’s agricultural landscape. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 36: 312–323.
MacLeod CJ, Drew KW, Coleman M 2011. Radiotracking small farmland passerines: tradeoffs in study design. Notornis 58: 113 – 123.
Morgan DR, Scobie S, Arthur DJ 2012. Evaluation of Zoletil and other injectable anaesthetics for field sedation of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Animal Welfare 21: 457–462.
Nugent G, Twigg LE, Warburton B, McGlinchy A, Fisher P, Gormley AM, Parkes JP 2012. Why 0.02%? A review of the basis for current practice in aerial 1080 baiting for rabbits in New Zealand. Wildlife Research 39: 89–103.
Nugent G, Warburton B, Thomson C, Cross ML, Coleman MC 2012. Bait aggregation to reduce cost and toxin use in aerial 1080 baiting of small mammal pests in New Zealand. Pest Management Science 68: 1374–1379.
Paterson RA, Townsend CR, Poulin R, Tompkins DM 2011. Introduced brown trout alter native acanthocephalan infections in native fish. Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 990–998.
Stokes V, Banks P, Pech R 2012. Infl uence of residency and social odors in interactions between competing native and alien rodents. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 329 – 338.
Tompkins D 2012. Introduction to the special issue on advances in tools for bird population monitoring in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 36: 267 .
Warburton B, Tompkins D, Choquenot D, Cowan P 2012. Minimising the number of individuals killed in long-term vertebrate pest management programmes, and the economic incentives to do so. Animal Welfare 21: 141–149.
Young LJ, Cross ML, Duckworth JA, Flenady S, Belov K 2011. Molecular identification of interleukin-2 in the lymphoid tissues of the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 36:236–240.
For further reading on the topic of pest suppression, we recommend the two excellent IUCN proceedings summarising papers presented at the international conferences on island invasives and published in 2002 and 2012 respectively. The most recent volume is available online at: http://www.issg.org/pdf/publications/Island_Invasives/IslandInvasives.pdf