Publications

I published a number of papers about the Portsmouth cats. They are listed below. To obtain a copy of a paper, do one of the following:

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The papers are reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers.

	Dards, J.L. (1976). Feral cat behaviour and ecology. Bulletin of the Feline Advisory Bureau, Vol 15, No 3: 10.
	Dards, J.L. (1978). Home ranges of feral cats in Portsmouth Dockyard. (Proceedings of the First International Conference on Domestic Cat Population Genetics and Ecology). Carnivore Genetics Newsletter, 3: 242-255.
	Dards, J.L. (1981). Habitat utilisation by feral cats in Portsmouth Dockyard. In The Ecology and Control of Feral Cats, pp. 30-49. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.
	Dards, J.L. (1983). The behaviour of dockyard cats: interactions of adult males. Applied Animal Ethology, 10: 133-153.
	Dards, J.L. and Robinson, R. (1983). Gene frequencies in a population of feral cats in Portsmouth naval dockyard. Theor. Appl. Genet. 64: 197-204. Note: This PDF was made available by the publishers, Springer, but they now only show a couple of pages and you have to pay them for the full paper. Sorry.

The complete details of the research are in my PhD thesis:

Dards, J.L. (1979). The population ecology of feral cats (Felis catus L.) in Portsmouth Dockyard. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Bradford.

*NEW* The full text of my thesis is now available for download, free of charge, from the British Library's e-theses online service (eThOS) - together with about a quarter of a million other digitised theses. Isn't technology wonderful? You need to set up a login, and can download the thesis here.

The thesis consists of:

	Title, Contents, Abstract, and Acknowledgements
	1. Introduction
	2. The habitat
	3. Methods
	4. Utilisation of the habitat
	5. Home range
	6. Social behaviour
	7. Population dynamics
	8. Activity patterns
	9. Coat colour genetics
	10. Population management
	11. General discussion
	Summary
	Appendix I - The location of Portsmouth dockyard
	Appendix II - Plant species identified in Portsmouth dockyard
	Appendix III - The females present
	References