Publications

Fact Sheets

Pookila Fire Fact Sheet – National Pookila (New Holland Mouse) Recovery Team, 2026

Smoky Mouse Fire Fact Sheet – National Smoky Mouse Recovery Team, 2025

Rodent Research Papers

Roycroft, EJ, Ford, F, Ramm, T, Schembri, R, Breed, WG, Burns, PA, Rowe, KC, Moritz, C (2024). Speciation across biomes: Rapid diversification with reproductive isolation in the Australian delicate mice. Molecular Ecology, 33, e17301.

Kwak, ML, Burns, PA, Hastriter, MW, Jenkins Shaw, J, and Nakao, R (2024).The threatened Pookila (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) hosts a diverse macrobiome of arthropods at varying risks of co-extinction. Journal of Insect Conservation, 28, 449-458.

Burns, PA, Rowe, KC, Parrott, ML, and Roycroft, EJ (2023). Population genomics of decline and local extinction in the endangered Australian Pookila. Biological Conservation, 284.

Watchorn, D, Dickman, C, Dunlop, J, Sanders, E, Watchorn, M, Burns, PA (2023). Ghost rodents: Albinism in Australian rodent species. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e9942.

Burns, PA, Clemann, N, and White, M (2020). Testing the utility of species distribution modelling using Random Forests for a species in decline. Austral Ecology 45, 706-716.

Burns, PA and Phillips, B (2020). Time since fire is an over-simplified measure of habitat suitability for the New Holland mouse. Journal of Mammalogy, 101, 476-486.

Burns, PA (2019). Testing the decline of the New Holland Mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae) in Victoria. Australian Mammalogy, 42, 185-193.

Burns, PA, McCall, C, Rowe, KC, Parrott, ML, and Phillips, BL (2019). Accounting for detectability and abundance in survey design for a declining species. Diversity and Distributions 25, 1655-1665.

Jenkins Shaw, J, Kwak, ML, Burns, PA, and Solodovnikov, A (2017). New host records of the rove beetle Myotyphlus newtoni, with notes on its association with mammals. Australian Entomologist 44, 209-212.

Burns, PA, Parrott, ML, Rowe, KC, and Phillips, BL (2017). Identification of threatened rodent species using infrared and white-flash camera traps. Australian Mammalogy 40, 188-197.

Burns, P. A., Rowe, K. M. C., Holmes, B. P. and Rowe, K. C. (2016). Historical resurveys reveal persistence of smoky mouse (Pseudomys fumeus) populations over the long-term and through the short-term impacts of fire. Wildlife Research 42, 668-677.