Bibliography for Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841)
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- ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
- Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Adams, M. & Cole, S.R. 1981. Genetical relationships among Australian rodents (Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 289-303
- Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Hogarth, J.T., Robinson, A.C. & Robinson, J.F. 1977. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents II. The Rattus Group. Chromosoma (Berlin) 61: 227-241
- Bezzobs, T. & Sanson, G. 1997. The effects of plant and tooth structure on intake and digestibility in two small mammalian herbivores. Physiological Zoology 70: 338-351
- Braithwaite, R.W. 1980. The ecology of Rattus lutreolus II. Reproductive tactics. Australian Wildlife Research 7: 53-62
- Braithwaite, R.W. 1980. The ecology of Rattus lutreolus III. The rise and fall of a commensal population. Australian Wildlife Research 7: 199-215
- Braithwaite, R.W. 1982. Small marginal groups of Rattus lutreolus in good and poor habitat. Journal of Zoology, London 198: 529-532
- Braithwaite, R.W. & Lee, A.K. 1979. The ecology of Rattus lutreolus I. A Victorian heathland population. Australian Wildlife Research 6: 173-189
- Breed, W.J. & Sarafis, V. 1979. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 103: 127-135
- Catling, P.C. 1986. Rattus lutreolus, colonizer of heathland after fire in the absence of Pseudomys species. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 127-139
- Cheal, D.C. 1987. The diets and dietary preferences of Rattus fuscipes and Rattus lutreolus at Walkerville in Victoria. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 35-44
- Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. 1994. Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 251-275
- Fox, B.J. 1979. Growth and development of Rattus lutreolus (Rodentia: Muridae) in the laboratory. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 945-957
- Fox, B.J., Taylor, J.E. & Thompson, P.T. 2003. Experimental manipulation of habitat structure: a retrogression of the small mammal succession. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 927-940
- Fox, B.J. & Murray, J.D. 1979. Laboratory hybridization of Australian Rattus fuscipes and Rattus lutreolus and its karyotypic confirmation. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 691-698
- Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841]
- Gray, J.E. 1847. Description of a new rat from South Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: 5-6 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]]
- Haering, R. & Fox, B.J. 1995. Habitat utilization patterns of sympatric populations of Pseudomys gracilicaudatus and Rattus lutreolus in coastal heathland: a multivariate analysis. Australian Journal of Ecology 20: 427-441
- Higgins, E.T. & Petterd, W.F. 1884. Description of a new species of Mus, with a list of the terrestrial animals of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1883: 195-198
- Higgins, E.T. & Petterd, W.F. 1884. Descriptions of new Tasmanian animals. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1883: 181-184, pl.196 [Date published before 25 June 1884: publication date established from Anon. 1953. Annual Report, 1952. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 87: ii–viii [vi]]
- Higgs, P. & Fox, B.J. 1993. Interspecific competition: A mechanism for rodent succession after fire in a wet heathland. Australian Journal of Ecology 18: 193-201
- Ledloff, A.C. 2000. The design and analysis of mark-recapture studies using habitat utilisation by the grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni) and the swamp rat (Rattus lutreolus) in a coastal heathland of Bribie Island, south-east Queensland, as a model system. PhD. thesis. Brisbane : Queensland University of Technology.
- Lunney, D. 1995. Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus. pp. 655-657 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
- Luo, J., Monamy, V. & Fox, B.J. 1998. Competition between two Australian rodent species - a regression analysis. Journal of Mammalogy 79: 962-971
- Luo, J. & Fox, B.J. 1996. Seasonal and successional dietary shifts of two sympatric rodents in coastal heathland: A possible mechanism for coexistence. Australian Journal of Ecology 21: 121-132
- Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]
- Maitz, W.E. & Dickman, C.R. 2001. Competition and habitat use in native Australian Rattus: is competition intense, or important? Oecologia 128: 526-538
- Mallick, S.A. 1992. Urine-marking in three species of Rattus. Wildlife Research 19: 89-93
- Monamy, V. 1995. Ecophysiology of a wild-living population of the velvet-furred rat, Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Rodentia: Muridae), in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 583-600
- Monamy, V. 1995. Population dynamics of, and habitat use by, Australian native rodents in wet sclerophyll forest, Tasmania. I. Rattus lutreolus velutinus. Wildlife Research 22: 647-660
- Monamy, V. 1997. Sexual differences in habitat use by Rattus lutreolus (Rodentia: Muridae): The emergence of patterns in native rodent community structure. Australian Mammalogy 20: 43-48
- Monomy, V. 1996. Are capture rates of free-living velvet-furred rats, Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Rodentia: Muridae) influenced by residual conspecific odour? Australian Mammalogy 19: 53-54
- Monomy, V. & Fox, B.J. 2000. Small succession is determined by vegetation density rather than time elapsed since disturbance. Austral Ecology 25: 580-587
- Morris, D.W., Fox, B.J., Luo, J. & Monomy, V. 2000. Habitat-dependent competition and the co-existence of Australian heathland rodents. Oikos 91: 294-306
- 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
- Norton, T.W. 1987. The ecology of small mammals in north-eastern Tasmania II. Pseudomys novaehollandiae and the introduced Mus Musculus. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 435-441
- Norton, T.W. 1987. The effect of trap placement on trapping success of Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Thomas)(Muridae: Rodentia) in northeast Tasmania. Journal of Mammalogy 68: 617-641
- Tate, G.H.H. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 65 The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 97: 183-430
- Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1973. Reproductive characteristics of wild native Australian Rattus (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 21: 437-475
- Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150: 1-130
- Thomas, O. 1882. On two new Muridae from Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 9: 413-416
- Thompson, P. & Fox, B.J. 1993. Asymmetric competition in Australian heathland rodents: a reciprocal removal experiment demonstrating the influence of size-class structure. Oikos 67: 264-278
- Trouessart, E.-L. 1904. Catalogus Mammalium tam Viventium quam Fossilium. Quinquennale supplementum, anno 1904. Fasc. II. Rodentia. Berolini : R. Friedländer & Sohn pp. 289-546.
- Troughton, E. le G. 1937. On new forms of the Eastern Swamp Rat, and the relationship of Mastacomys. The Australian Zoologist 8: 281-286
- Watts, C.H.S. 1982. The husbandry of Australian Rattus. pp. 177-179 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.
- Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls.
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