
%0 Journal Article
%A Carstairs, JL 
%T Population Dynamics and Movements of Rattus villosissimus (Waite) during the 1966-69 Plague at Brunette Downs, N.T
%J Wildlife Research
%D 1976/02/01
%V 3
%N 1
%P 1-9
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9760001
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR9760001 
%X 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. 
