Ecologically-based rodent management
/ Grant Singleton
- Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 1999
- 494 p
1 Basic research - the foundation for sound management -- current paradigms of rodent population dynamics - what are we missing?; the behaviour and ecology of rattus norvegicus: from opportunism to kamikaze tendencies; models for predicting plagues of house mice (mus domesticus) in australia; rodent - ecosystem relationships: a review; the role of rodents in emerging human disease: examples from the hantaviruses and arenaviruses; 2 Methods of management -- rodenticides - their role in rodent pest management in tropical agriculture; physical control of rats in developing countries; ecological management of brandt's vole (microtus brandti) in inner mongolia, china; biological control of rodents - the case for fertility control using immunocontraception; urban rodent control programs for the 21st century; 3 Case studies in asia and africa -- rodent pest management in agricultural ecosystems in china; rodent pest management in the qinghai - tibet alpine meadow ecosystem; ecologically - based population management of the rice-field rat in indonesia; population ecology and management of rodent pests in the mekong river delta, vietnam; rodent management in thailand; farmer participatory research on rat management in cambodia; rodents in agriculture in the lao PDR - a problem with an unknown future; populations of african rodents: models and the real world; ecophysiology and chronobiology applied to rodent pest management in semi-arid agricultural areas in sub-saharan west africa; the rodent problem in madagascar: agricultural pest and threat to human health; rodent pest management in east africa - a ecological approach; ecologically-based rodent management in developing countries: where to now?