Rodent pests and their control /

• Other Authors: Buckle, A. P. (Editor), Smith, Robert H. 1950- (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Rodents > Control.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Pesticide and Drug Resistance.; Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000); Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Veterinary Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Biological Resources (General); Communication and Mass Media.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Toxicology and Poisoning (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Animal health.; Anticoagulants.; Chemical control.; Commensals.; Communication.; Control methods.; Damage.; Environmental impact.; Ethics.; Field crops.; Field tests.; Forest pests.; Forestry.; Health protection.; Invasive species.; Islands.; Laboratory tests.; Monitoring.; Nature conservation.; Nontarget effects.; Nontarget organisms.; Pesticide residues.; Plant pests.; Reservoir hosts.; Rodent control.; Rodenticide resistance.; Rodenticides.; Sociology.; Temperate crops.; Rropical crops.; Wildlife.; Wildlife conservation.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 422 pages) : illustrations (some color), charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This updated 2nd edition, two decades after the publication of the first edition, combines information from the latest scientific research on rodent pests and their control. It includes 19 chapters discussing: the natural history of rodents and preadaptations to pestilence; commensal rodents; rodents in agriculture and forestry; rodents as carriers of disease; non-chemical and non-lethal chemical control methods, with special reference to food stores; chemical control methods; laboratory evaluation of rodenticides; field evaluation of rodenticides; resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides; damage assessment and damage surveys; rodent control in protection of humans and animal health; rodent control in temperate field crops and forestry; rodent control in tropical field crops; sociology and communication of rodent management in Developing Countries; ethics in rodent control; environmental impacts of rodenticides; monitoring rodenticide residues in wildlife; rodent control and island conservation; and rodent control 20 years since the publication of the first edition. This book is essential reading for all those involved in rodent pest control, including researchers, conservationists, practitioners and public health specialists.