Bibliography for Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839)

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• Carron, P.L., Happold, D.C.D. & Bubela, T.M. 1990. Diet of two sympatric Australian subalpine rodents, Mastacomys fuscus and Rattus fuscipes. Australian Wildlife Research 17: 479-489
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• Irby, D.C., Kerr, J.B., Risbridger, G.P. & de Kretser, D.M. 1984. Seasonally and experimentally induced changes in testicular function of the Australian bush rat (Rattus fuscipes). Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 70: 657-666
• Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp.
• Jones, F.W. 1924. The flora and fauna of Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator Group. No. 15.—The Pearson Island rat and the Flinders Island wallaby. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 48: 10-14
• Lane, S.G. 1985. Seabird islands No. 147 Charley Island, Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia. Corella 8: 119-120
• Laurance, S.G.W. & Laurance, W.F. 1995. A ground-trapping survey for small mammals in continuous forest and two isolated tropical rainforest reserves. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 597-602
• Laurence, W.F. 1994. Rainforest fragmentation and the structure of small mammal communities in tropical Queensland. Biological Conservation 69: 23-32
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• Lunney, D., Cullis, B. & Eby, P. 1987. Effects of logging and fire on small mammals in Mumbulla State Forest, near Bega, New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 163-181
• Lunney, D. & Ashby, E. 1987. Population changes in Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) and other small mammal species, in forest regenerating from logging and fire near Bega, New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 275-284
• Magnusson, W.E. 1985. Urine urea concentrations in Rattus fuscipes. Australian Mammalogy 8: 61-63
• Morrissey, B.L. & Breed, W.G. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 495-502
• Osborn, T.G.B. 1923. The flora and fauna of Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator Group. No. 8.—The ecology of Pearson Islands. With an appendix on the soils by J.G. Wood. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 97-118 pls 4-9
• Peakall, R., Ruibal, M. & Lindenmayer, D.B. 2003. Spatial autocorrelation analysis offers new insights into gene flow in the Australian bush rat Rattus fuscipes. Evolution 57: 1182-1195
• Penn, A,M., Sherwin, W.S., Lunney, D. & Banks, P. 2003. The effects of a low-intensity fire on small mammals and lizards in a logged, burnt forest. Wildlife Research 30: 477-486
• Press, A.J. 1986. Comparison of numbers of Rattus fuscipes living in cool temperate rainforests and dry sclerophyll forests. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 419-426
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• Reddell, P., Spain, A.V. & Hopkins, M. 1997. Dispersal of spores of mycorrhizal fungi in scats of native mammals in tropical forests of northeastern Australia. Biotropica 29: 184-192
• Robinson, A.C. 1987. The ecology of the bush rat Rattus fuscipes (Rodentia: Muridae), in Sherbrooke Forest, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 11: 35-49
• Schmitt, L.H. & White, R.J. 1979. A comparison of metric and protein variation in the Australian bush-rat, Rattus fuscipes greyii. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 547-559
• Smales, L.R. 1997. A review of the helminth parasites of Australian rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 505-521
• Stewart, A.P. & Barnett, S.A. 1983. Seasonal changes in body weight and composition of Australian bush rats, Rattus fuscipes, and adaptation to winter. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 29-37
• Sutherland, E.F. & Dickman, C.R. 1999. Mechanisms of recovery after fire by rodents in the Australian environment, a review. Wildlife Research 26: 405-419
• Tate, G.H.H. 1940. Notes on the types of certain early described species of monotremes, marsupials, Muridae and bats from the Indo-Australian region. American Museum Novitates 1061: 1-10
• Taylor, J.M. & Calaby, J.H. 1988. Rattus fuscipes. Mammalian Species 298: 1-8
• Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1973. Reproductive characteristics of wild native Australian Rattus (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 21: 437-475
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• Thomas, O. 1923. The Godman Exploration Fund: List of mammals from north Queensland collected by Mr T.V. Sherrin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 170-178
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• Thompson, M.B., Medlin, G., Hutchinson, R. & West, N. 1989. Short-term effects of fuel reduction burning on populations of small terrestrial mammals. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 117-129
• Tory, M.K., May, T.W., Keane, P.J. & Bennett, A.F. 1997. Mycophagy in small mammals: A comparison of the occurrence and diversity of hypogeal fungi in the diet of the long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus and the bush rat Rattus fuscipes from southwestern Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 460-470
• Troughton, E. le G. 1937. The status of 'Mus' novaehollandiae Waterhouse, and allied forms. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 185-190
• van Tets, I.G. & Whelan, R.J. 1997. Banksia pollen in the diet of Australian mammals. Ecography 20: 499-505
• Warneke, R.M. 1971. A field study of the Australian bush rat, Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse) (Rodentia, Muridae). Wildlife Contributions. Fisheries & Wildlife Department, Victoria 14: 1-115
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