Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1959 |
Authors: | Bentley, EW |
Journal: | Journal of Animal Ecology |
Volume: | 28 |
Pagination: | 299-308 |
Date Published: | 1959 |
ISBN Number: | 00218790 |
Keywords: | Rattus rattus |
Abstract: | 1. The distribution of Rattus rattus in the United Kingdom in 1951 and 1956 has been elucidated, mainly from the replies to a questionnaire sent to all local authorities. 2. In 1951 the ship rat was well established ashore in the London area and in about forty localities outside it, and occurred sporadically in about thirty other places. 3. By 1956 it had decreased in range and frequency in most localities and disappeared from some. 4. The main factors responsible for its loss of ground between 1951 and 1956 are though to be the continuous reduction in the number of rats arriving in the ports in ocean-going vessels, the introduction of measures to reduce rat infestation in coastal vessels, improvements in dockside building construction, and improved methods of rat control on land. |
URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2085 |
The Distribution and Status of Rattus rattus L. in the United Kingdom in 1951 and 1956
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