
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Carstairs, JL 
T1  - Population Dynamics and Movements of Rattus villosissimus (Waite) during the 1966-69 Plague at Brunette Downs, N.T
JF  - Wildlife Research
JO  - Wildl. Res.
Y1  - 1976
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9760001 
N2  - A population of R. villosissimus was studied during a plague at Brunette Downs cattle station, N.T.  Samples, each of 150 rats, were trapped in December 1967, March, June and November 1968 and April 1969, and the population on a grid was estimated by mark-recapture methods. The rats bred from December 1967 until April 1968 and again in April 1969. The population fluctuated widely during the study; partly because of breeding and partly because of movements of animals through the area. Data from a breeding colony in the laboratory were used to interpret field observations on intrauterine and juvenile mortality. 
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