Conserving New Zealand's native fauna: a review of tools being developed for the Predator Free 2050 programme

EC Murphy, JC Russell, KG Broome, GJ Ryan… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
The endemic fauna of New Zealand evolved in the absence of mammalian predators and
the introduction of the latter has been devastating. There have been numerous avian …

Leveraging a natural murine meiotic drive to suppress invasive populations

L Gierus, A Birand, MD Bunting… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Invasive rodents are a major cause of environmental damage and biodiversity loss,
particularly on islands. Unlike insects, genetic biocontrol strategies including population …

Gene drives for vertebrate pest control: Realistic spatial modelling of eradication probabilities and times for island mouse populations

A Birand, P Cassey, JV Ross, JC Russell… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive alien species continue to threaten global biodiversity. CRISPR‐based gene drives,
which can theoretically spread through populations despite imparting a fitness cost, could be …

An insight into the ecology of the invasive house mouse on small Mediterranean islands

S Gasperini, P Bartolommei, A Bonacchi… - Biological …, 2024 - Springer
The invasive house mouse Mus musculus represents a great threat to islands. Eradicating
house mouse populations is thus often necessary, entailing actions that could be optimised …

Invasion of farmland hedgerows by non-native small mammals is associated with lower soil surface invertebrate diversity, abundance, body size and biomass

WI Montgomery, SSJ Montgomery, J O'Neill, N Reid - Biological Invasions, 2024 - Springer
Small mammals in farmland hedgerows feed on soil surface invertebrates with non-native
invasive species potentially affecting prey species and populations. We investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Recovering an endangered vole and its habitat may help control invasive house mice

PM Haswell, AM López-Pérez, DL Clifford, JE Foley - Food Webs, 2023 - Elsevier
Greater understanding of intraguild dynamics in rodent communities and of how house mice,
Mus musculus, interact with wild sympatric rodents is needed. House mice can be a …

Fly on the wall: Comparing arthropod communities between islands with and without house mice (Mus musculus)

WA Holthuijzen - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Invertebrates are key to island ecosystems but impacts from invasive mammalian predators
are not well documented or understood. Given this knowledge gap, we studied terrestrial …

The Spatial Distribution of the House Mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, in Multi-Family Dwellings

S Sked, C Liu, S Abbar, R Corrigan, R Cooper, C Wang - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The management of house mice, Mus musculus domesticus, in low-
income high-rise multi-family dwellings (MFDs) is often frustrated by the limited resources …

Movement behaviour of a translocated female ship rat and her offspring in a low rat density New Zealand forest

H Nathan, T Agnew, N Mulgan - New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 2020 - JSTOR
Dispersal is a fundamentally important aspect of animal behaviour, but empirical data
describing it are lacking for many species. Here, we report on a field study aimed at …

Unravelling the Rapid Range Expansion in Senegal of the Nigerian Gerbil (Gerbillus Nigeriae) Using a Multifactorial Modelling Approach

J Le Fur, F Duraffour, L Granjon - Preprint, 2024 - archimer.ifremer.fr
at the turn of the last century, senegal experienced a spectacular invasion of the nigerian
gerbil (gerbillus nigeriae). in less than 20 years, the species could be spotted in almost all …