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Title Rodents : habitat, pathology, and environmental impact / Alfeo Triunveri and Desi Scalise, editors
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2012]

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Series Animal Science, Issues and Professions
Animal Science, Issues and Professions
Contents RODENTSHABITAT, PATHOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ANIMAL SCIENCE, ISSUES AND PROFESSIONS; RODENTSHABITAT, PATHOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. RODENTS IN URBAN ECOSYSTEMS OF RUSSIA AND THE USA; ABSTRACT; TERMINOLOGY AND DIFFERENCES IN TERMS BETWEEN WESTERN AND RUSSIAN LITERATURES; SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN TERRITORIES AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR RODENTS; BIOLOGICAL TRAITS OF URBAN RODENTS; NORWAY RATS ; BLACK RATS; HOUSE MICE; WILD RODENTS WITHIN URBAN TERRITORIES; REFERENCES
CHAPTER 2. EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC FACTORS OF REGULATION OF REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL IN THE WATER VOLE (ARVICOLA AMPHIBIUS) POPULATION FROM WESTERN SIBERIAABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; POPULATION REGULATION IN REPRODUCTIVE SEASON; Materal and Methods; Results and Discussion; WINTER FACTORS OF POPULATION REGULATION; Material and Methods; Results and Discussion; CONCLUSION; ACNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. RODENTS AND SPACE: WHAT BEHAVIOR DO WE STUDY UNDER SEMI-NATURAL AND LABORATORY CONDITIONS?; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. PROECHIMYS: A RODENT STILL POORLY UNDERSTOOD; ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTIONPROECHIMYS TAXONOMY; PROECHIMYS: POTENTIAL RESERVOIR OF DISEASES; PROECHIMYS RODENTS AND NEUROSCIENCE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. NICHE OVERLAP AND RESOURCE PARTITIONING AMONG THREE URBAN RODENT SPECIES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; Study Area; Data Collection; Data Analysis; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. HELMINTH PARASITES OF HYDROMYINE RODENTS FROM THE ISLAND OF NEW GUINEA; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MURIDAE; HELMINTHS; ACANTHOCEPHALA; PLATYHELMINTHES; NEMATODA; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES
CHAPTER 7. RODENT MANAGEMENT IN ANIMAL FARMS BY ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDESABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; NON-LETHAL MANAGEMENT; FAST-ACTING RODENTICIDES; SLOW-ACTING RODENTICIDES: THE ANTICOAGULANTS; RODENTICIDE FORMULATIONS; BAIT CONTAINERS; FOOD AVAILABILITY AND CONTROL EFFICACY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE AND CONTROL EFFICACY; Control Success Assessment; (A) Live Trapping; (B) Tracking; (C) Rodent Droppings; (D) Re-Opened Hole Census; (E) Food Consumption; TESTING COMMERCIAL FORMULATIONS; METHODS; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. SUSTAINED AGRICULTURE: THE NEED TO MANAGE RODENT DAMAGE
INTRODUCTIONTHE NATURE OF RODENTS; RODENT DAMAGE AND THE SPECIES CAUSING DAMAGE; LEVELS OF RODENT DAMAGE; MONITORING RODENT POPULATIONS; CHALLENGES TO MANAGING RODENT DAMAGE AND POPULATIONS; POPULATION MANAGEMENT OF RODENTS; ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS: PHYSICAL AND BIOTIC ENVIRONMENT; INFLUENCING FOOD AND SHELTER TO REDUCE RODENT POPULATIONS OR DAMAGE; EXCLUSION OF RODENTS FROM AREAS OR RESOURCES; INFLUENCE OF LAND USES, MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES ON RODENT POPULATIONS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH NEEDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS; REFERENCES; INDEX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and include index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Rodents.
Rodents -- Ecology
Rodentia
Rodentia (order)
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Rodents
Rodents -- Ecology
Form Electronic book
Author Triunveri, Alfeo, editor
Scalise, Desi, editor
LC no. 2019714153
ISBN 9781614709046
1614709041
1614708339
9781614708339