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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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; rodent...

Table of Contents:

• The Natural History of Rodents : Preadaptations to Pestilence / D.W. Macdonald, M.G.P. Fenn and M. Gelling
• Commensal Rodents / M. Lund
• Rodents in Agriculture and Forestry / B.J. Wood and G.R. Singleton
• Rodents as Carriers of Disease / S.A. Battersby
• Rodent Control Methods : Non-chemical and Non-lethal Chemical, with Special Reference to Food Stores / R.H. Smith and A.N. Meyer
• Control Methods : Chemical / A.P. Buckle and C.T. Eason
• The Laboratory Evaluation of Rodenticides / C.V. Prescott and R.A. Johnson
• Field Evaluation of Rodenticides / D.P. Cowan and M.G. Townsend
• Resistance to Anticoagulant Rodenticides / H.-J. Pelz and C.V. Prescott
• Damage Assessment and Damage Surveys / A.P. Buckle
• Rodent Control in Practice : Protection of Humans and Animal Health / A.N. Meyer and D.E. Kaukeinen
• Rodent Control in Practice : Temperate Field Crops and Forestry / A.P. Buckle and H.-J. Pelz
• Rodent Control in Practice : Tropical Field Crops / M.W. Fall and L.A. Fiedler
• Sociology and Communication of Rodent Management in Developing Countries / G.R. Singleton and R.J.B. Flor
• Ethics in Rodent Control / F.J.L. Smit
• Environmental Impacts of Rodenticides / R.H. Smith and R.F. Shore
• Monitoring Rodenticide Residues in Wildlife / R.F. Shore, M.G. Pereira, E.D. Potter and L.A. Walker
• Rodent Control and Island Conservation / G. Howald, J. Ross and A.P. Buckle
• Rodent Control : Back to the Future (the Sequel) / A.P. Buckle and R.H. Smith.