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DR PETER BANKS

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Hughes NK, Kelley, JL, Banks PB (2009) Receiving  behaviour is sensitive to risks from eavesdropping predators. Oecologia 160:609-617.
 
Stokes VL, Banks PB, Pech RP &Williams RL. (2009)  Invasion by Rattus rattus into native coastal forests of south-eastern Australia: Are native small mammals at risk? Austral Ecology 34:395-408
 
Fey K, Banks PB, Korpimaki E (2008) Voles on small islands: effects of food limitation and alien predation.  Oecologia 157: 419-428
 
Banks PB, Nordström M, Ahola M, Salo P, Fey, K, Korpimäki E (2008) Impacts of alien mink predation on island vertebrate communities of the Baltic Sea Archipelago: review of a long-term experimental study. Boreal Environmental Research 13:3-16
 
Lovasz TJ Banks PB Croft D (2008) Establishing tourism guidelines for viewing Australian Sea Lions, Neophoca cinerea, at Seal Bay Conservation Park, South Australia. In: Too Close for Comfort (ed by D Lunney, A Munn & W Meikle) Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman  pp 225-232.
 
Miller RW, Stuart, AM, Joshi RC, Banks PB & Singleton GR (2008) Biology and management of rodent communities in complex agroecosystems - rice terraces. In: Philippine Rats: Ecology and Management (eds GR Singleton, RC Joshi & LS Sebastian), Philippines Rice Research Institute, Science City of Munoz. Pp 25-36.
 
Hochuli DF,Banks PB (2008) Selection pressures on zoology teaching in Australian universities: student perceptions of zoological education and how to improve it.   Australian Zoologist 34:548-553.
 
Young CM, Kimpton KA, Cohen HM, Burns PT, McLaughlin K,Banks PB. (2009) Factors affecting bird attacks on small mammal traps.Australian Zoologist (In press)
 
 
 
Banks PB and Bryant JV (2007) Four-legged friend or foe? dog walking displaces native birds from natural areas.  Biology Letters 3:611-613
 
Banks PB and Dickman CR (2007). Alien predation and the effects of multiple levels of prey naivete. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 229-230
 
Salo P, Korpimäki E, Banks PB,  Nordström M, Dickman CR (2007) Alien predators are more dangerous than native predators to prey populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 274:1237-1243 .
 
Russell BG, Banks PB (2007) Do Australian small mammals respond to native and introduced predator odours? Austral Ecology 32: 277-286
 
Hayward MW, De Tores PJ, Dillon, MJ, Banks PB (2007) Predicting the occurrence of the quokka, Setonix brachyurus (Macropodidae:Marsupialia), in Western Australia's northern jarrah forest.Wildlife Research 34: 194-199
 
Banks PB (2007) Guest or pest? Animal rights activism at the RZS Annual Forum  In: Pest or Guest: The zoology of overabundance (eds. D. Lunney, p. Eby, P. Hutchings & S. Burgin). Royal Zoological Society of NSW pp.249-250
 
Rose TR, Banks PB (2007) Impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) across an urban/bushland interface at Sydney's North Head. In: Pest or Guest: The zoology of overabundance (ed. eds. D. Lunney, p. Eby, P. Hutchings & S. Burgin). Royal Zoological Society of NSW pp66-75
 
Brown PR, Huth NI, Banks PB, Singleton GR (2007) Relationship between abundance of rodents and damage to agricultural crops. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Envrionment 120:405-415
 
Stokes VL, Spratt DM, Banks PB, Pech, RP, Williams, RL (2007) Occurrence of Angiostrongylus species (Nematoda) in populations of Rattus rattus and Rattus fuscipes in coastal forests of south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 55:177-184
 
 
 
 
Ahola M, Nordström M, Banks PB, Laanetu N, Korpimäki E (2006) Alien mink predation induces prolonged declines in archipelago amphibians. Proceedings of the Royal Society  B-Biological Sciences 273: 1261-5
 
Pastro LA, Banks PB (2006) Foraging responses of wild house mice to accumulations of conspecific odor as a predation risk. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:101-107
 
Köhler K, Korpimäki E, Banks PB (2006) Different microhabitat preferences of field and bank voles under manipulated predation risk from an alien predator. Annales Zoologica Fennica 43:9-16
 
Rose TA, Ramp D, Munn AJ, Banks PB (2006)   Foot-thumping as an alarm signal in macropodid marsupials:  a review of prevalence and hypotheses of function. Mammal Review 36:281-298
 
Munn AJ, Banks PB, Hume ID (2006) Digestive plasticity of the small intestine and caecum in a marsupial herbivore, the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Australian Journal of Zoology 54:287-291
 
 
 
Banks PB (2005) Animal welfare zealots put wildlife welfare at risk. Nature 438:559
 
Korpimäki E, Oksanen L, Oksanen T, Klemola T, Norrdahl K, Banks PB (2005) Vole cycles and predation in temperate and boreal zones of Europe. Journal of Animal Ecology 74: 1150-1159.
 
Mitchell BD, Banks PB (2005) Do wild dogs exclude foxes? Evidence for competition from dietary and spatial overlaps. Austral Ecology 30:581-591Appendix-1
 
Hayward MW, De Tores PJ, Augee ML, Banks PB (2005) Mortality and survivorship of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) (Macropodidae : Marsupialia) in the northern jarrah forest of Western Australia. Wildlife Research 32: 715-722.
 
Hayward MW, De Tores PJ, Dillon MJ, Fox BJ, Banks PB (2005) Using faecal pellet counts along transects to estimate quokka (Setonix brachyurus) population density. Wildlife Research 32:503-505
 
Brown PR, Tuan  NP, Banks PB (2005) Movements, habitat use and response of ricefield rats to removal in an intensive cropping system in Vietnam. Belgian Journal of Zoology 135: 145-152
 
Russell BG, Banks PB (2005) Responses of four Critical Weight Range (CWR) marsupials to the odours of native and introduced predators. Australian Zoologist 33:217-222
 
Hayward MW, De Tores PJ, Banks PB (2005) Habitat use of the Quokka, Setonix brachyurus (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), in the northern jarrah forest of Australia. Journal of Mammalogy 84:683-688
 
 
Banks PB, Norrdahl K, Nordstrom M, Korpimäki E (2004) Dynamic impacts of feral mink predation on vole metapopulations in the outer archipelago of the Baltic Sea. Oikos 105:79-88
 
Kellie A, Dain SJ, Banks PB (2004) Ultraviolet properties of Australian mammal urine. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 190:429-435
 
Powell F, Banks PB (2004) Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat? Animal Behaviour 67:753-759
 
Stokes VL, Pech RP, Banks PB, Arthur AD (2004) Foraging behaviour and habitat use by Antechinus flavipes and Sminthopsis murina (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in response to predation risk in eucalypt woodland. Biological Conservation 117:331-342
 
Banks PB, Powell F (2004) Does maternal condition or predation risk influence small mammal population dynamics? Oikos 106:176-184
 
Sutherland DR , Banks PB, Jacobs J, Singleton GR (2004) Shifting age structure of house mice during a population outbreak. Wildlife Research 31:613-618
 
Hayward MW, de Tores PJ, Augee ML, Fox BJ, Banks PB (2004) Home range and movements of the quokka Setonix brachyurus (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), and its impact on the viability of the metapopulation on the Australian mainland. Journal of Zoology, London 263:219-228
 
Banks PB (2004) Population viability analysis in urban wildlife management: Modelling management options for Sydney's quarantined Bandicoots. In: Burgin S, Lunney D (eds) Urban Wildlife. Royal Zoological Society, Mosman, pp 70-77
 
 
Korpimäki E, Klemola T, Norrdahl K, Oksanen L, Oksanen T, Banks PB, Batzli GO, Henttonen H (2003) Vole cycles and predation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:494-495
 
Penn AM, Sherwin WB, Lunney D, Banks PB (2003) The effects of a low-intensity fire on small mammals and lizards in a logged, burnt forest. Wildlife Research 30:477-486
 
Banks PB (2003) Book review "The story of rats" Australian Zoologist 32:271
 
Banks PB, Hughes NK, Rose TA (2003) Do Australian native small mammals avoid faeces of domestic dogs? Australian Zoologist 32:406-409
 
 
Banks PB, Norrdahl K, Korpimäki E (2002) Mobility decisions and the predation risks of reintroduction. Biological Conservation 103:133-138
 
Banks PB , Powell F (2002) An analysis of the NSW NPWS North Head Long-nosed Bandicoot monitoring program: A report for the NPWS Central Directorate Threatened Species Unit.
 
 
Spencer RJ, Thomson MB, Banks PB (2001) Hatch or wait? A dilemma in reptilian incubation. Oikos 93:401-406
 
Banks PB (2001) Predation-sensitive grouping and habitat use by eastern grey kangaroos: a field experiment. Animal Behaviour 61:1013-1021
 
 
Banks PB, Norrdahl K, Korpimäki E (2000) Nonlinearity in the predation risk of prey mobility. Proceedings of the Royal Society  B-Biological Sciences 267:1621-1625
 
Banks PB, Newsome AE, Dickman CR (2000) Predation by red foxes limits recruitment in populations of eastern grey kangaroos. Austral Ecology 25:283-291
 
Banks PB, Dickman CR (2000) Effects of winter food supplementation on reproduction, body mass, and numbers of small mammals in montane Australia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78:1775-1783
 
Banks PB (2000) Population viability analysis for the Long-nosed Bandicoot population at North Head, NSW: modelling the effects of increased traffic flow on adult mortality. A report to NSW NPWS Central Directorate
 
Banks PB (2000) Can foxes regulate rabbit populations? Journal of Wildlife Management 64:401-406
 
 
Banks PB, Hume ID, Crowe O (1999) Behavioural, morphological and dietary response of rabbits to predation risk from foxes. Oikos 85:247-256
 
Banks PB (1999) Predation by introduced foxes on native bush rats in Australia: do foxes take the doomed surplus? Journal of Applied Ecology 36:1063-1071
 
 
Banks PB (1998) Responses of Australian bush rats, Rattus fuscipes, to the odor of introduced Vulpes vulpes. Journal of Mammalogy 79:1260-1264
 
Mahon PS, Banks PB, Dickman CR (1998) Population indices for wild carnivores: a critical study in sand-dune habitat, south-western Queensland. Wildlife Research 25:11-22
 
Banks PB, Dickman CR, Newsome AE (1998) Ecological costs of feral predator control: foxes and rabbits. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:766-772
 
 
Newsome AE, Pech RP, Banks PB, Dickman CR, Smythe R (1997) Potential impacts of releasing rabbit Calicivirus disease on Australian native fauna. Australian Government Publishers, Canberra, Australia