Recent relevant publications
Barasona JA, Latham MC, Acevedo P, Armenteros JA, Latham ADM, Gortazar C, Carro F, Soriguer RC, Vicente J 2014. Spatiotemporal interactions between wild boar and cattle: implications for cross-species disease transmission. Veterinary Research 45: 122. doi: 10.1186/s13567-014-0122-7
Byrom AE, Caley P, Paterson BM, Nugent G. 2015. Feral ferrets (Mustela furo) as hosts and sentinels of tuberculosis in New Zealand. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 63 Suppl 1: 42–53. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2014.981314
Campbell KJ, Beek J, Eason CT, Glen AS, Godwin J, Gould F, Holmes ND, Howald GR, Madden FM, Ponder JB, Threadgill DW, Wegmann AS, Baxter GS 2014. The next generation of rodent eradications: innovative technologies and tools to improve species specificity and increase their feasibility on islands. Biological Conservation 185: 47–58. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.10.016
Dowling DK, Tompkins DM, Gemmell NJ 2015. The Trojan Female Technique for pest control: a candidate mitochondrial mutation confers low male fertility across diverse nuclear backgrounds in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Applications [early view online]. doi: 10.1111/eva.12297
Glen AS, Warburton B, Cruz J, Coleman M 2014. Comparison of camera traps and kill traps for detecting mammalian predators: a field trial. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 41: 155–160. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2014.898667
Grimaldi WW, Hall RJ, White DD, Wang J, Massaro M, Tompkins DM 2015. First report of a feather loss condition in Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Ross Island, Antarctica, and a preliminary investigation of its cause. Emu 115: 185–189. doi: 10.1071/MU14068
Grimaldi WW, Seddon PJ, Lyver POB, Nakagawa S, Tompkins DM 2015. Infectious diseases of Antarctic penguins: current status and future threats. Polar Biology 38: 591–606. doi: 10.1007/s00300-014-1632-5
Innes J, King C, Bartlam S, Forrester G, Howitt R 2015. Predator control improves nesting success in Waikato forest fragments. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39: 245–253.
Lees C, Miller PS, Rideout B, Dove V, MacDiarmid SC, van Andel M, Tompkins D, McInnes K, Jakob-Hoff RM, Skerratt L, French N, Siah S 2014. Tools for wildlife disease risk analysis. In: Jakob-Hoff RM, MacDiarmid SC, Lees C, Miller PS, Travis D, Kock R (Eds.), Manual of procedures for wildlife disease risk analysis (pp. 51–92). Paris: World Organisation for Animal Health; IUCN.
Livingstone PG, Nugent G, De Lisle GW, Hancox N 2015. Toward eradication: the effect of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife on the evolution and future direction of bovine tuberculosis management in New Zealand. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 63 Suppl 1: 4–18. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2014.971082
Morgan D, Warburton B, Nugent G 2015. Aerial prefeeding followed by ground based toxic baiting for more efficient and acceptable poisoning of invasive small mammalian pests. PLoS ONE 10: e0134032. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134032
Nugent G, Buddle BM, Knowles G 2015. Epidemiology and control of Mycobacterium bovis infection in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), the primary wildlife host of bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 63 Suppl 1: 28–41. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2014.963791
Nugent G, Gortazar C, Knowles G 2015. The epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis in wild deer and feral pigs and their roles in the establishment and spread of bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand wildlife. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 63 Suppl 1: 54–67. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2014.963792
Ruffell J, Innes J, Didham RK 2015. Efficacy of chew-track-card indices of rat and possum abundance across widely varying pest densities. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39: 87–92.
Smith DHV, Clayton R, Anderson D, Warburton B 2015. Using home-range data to optimise the control of invasive animals. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39: 286–290.
Tompkins DM, Carver S, Jones ME, Krkošek M, Skerratt LF 2015. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife: a critical perspective. Trends in Parasitology 31: 149–159. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.01.007
Tompkins DM, Slaney D 2014. Exploring the potential for Ross River virus emergence in New Zealand. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 14: 141–148. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1215
Tompkins DM, Veltman CJ 2015. Behaviour-manipulating parasites as adjuncts to vertebrate pest control. Ecological Modelling 302: 1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.01.016
Wang J, Moore NE, Murray ZL, McInnes K, White DJ, Tompkins DM, Hall RJ 2015. Discovery of novel virus sequences in an isolated and threatened bat species, the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). Journal of General Virology [early view online]. doi: 10.1099/vir.0.000158
Warburton B, Livingstone P 2015. Managing and eradicating wildlife tuberculosis in New Zealand. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 63 Suppl 1: 77–88. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2014.981315
White DJ, Hall RJ, Jakob-Hoff R, Wang J, Jackson B, Tompkins DM 2015. Exudative cloacitis in the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) potentially linked to Escherichia coli infection. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 63 Suppl 1: 167–170. doi: 10.1080/00480169.2014.960905
Yockney IJ, Latham MC, Rouco C, Cross ML, Nugent G 2015. Quantifying short-term foraging movements in a marsupial pest to improve targeted lethal control and disease surveillance. PLoS ONE 10: e0121865. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121865