United States Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

 

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2011

Citation

Chapter 16 (pages 381-410) in D. Pimentel, editor. Biological Invasions, 2nd edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, United States, 449 pages

Comments

United States government work

Abstract

Contents

Introduction

Assessing impacts of rodents and other vertebrate invaders

Accounts of some important vertebrate invaders
Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Roof rat (Rattus rattus)
Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans)
House mouse (Mus Musculus)
Nutria (Myocastor coypus)
Gambian giant pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus)
Feral swine (Sus scofa)
Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes javanicus)
Rock pigeon (Columba livia)
House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis)
Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus)
Coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui)
Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)
European and Asian carp (Cyprinidae)

Offshore Threats

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