| Titre : | Wildlife Research : Management and Conservation 38(7) - 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Loth S. Mulungu, Auteur ;
Themb'alilahlwa A. Mahlaba, Auteur ;
Apia W. Massawe, Auteur ;
Jan Kennis, Auteur ;
Dieter Crauwels, Auteur ;
Seth Eiseb, Auteur ;
Ara Monadjem, Auteur ;
Rhodes H. Makundi, Auteur ;
Abdul A. S. Katakweba, Auteur ;
Herwig Leirs, Auteur ;
Steven R. Belmain, Auteur
Context. The multimammate mouse, Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834), is an important agricultural pest in southern and eastern Africa where it can cause significant crop losses. Mastomys natalensis is known to consume a variety of food in respons[...]
Article
Nico Avenant, Auteur
Context. The expansive grassland biome is one of the most extensively transformed in South Africa, yet no strategy for monitoring its integrity is in place. A grassland health program, incorporating different ecosystem levels, was recently initi[...]
Article
Rica Joy B. Flor, Auteur ;
Grant R. Singleton, Auteur
Context. In Asia, losses to rodents contribute to the undernourishment of smallholder families. Ecologically based rodent management (EBRM) has become the national policy for rodent management in rice-based agriculture in Indonesia, the Philippi[...]
Article
Bastiaan G. Meerburg, Auteur ;
Chantal B. E. M. Reusken, Auteur
Rodents are known to cause massive food losses, but are also implicated as reservoirs for a wide variety of zoonotic pathogens. This review discusses the contribution of rodents in the spread and transmission of Coxiella burnetii, the causative [...]
Article
Context. Common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations can increase to several thousand individuals per hectare during outbreaks. In central Europe such outbreaks usually extend across large areas but there can be significant regional differences i[...]
Article
Nguyen Thi My Phung, Auteur ;
Peter R. Brown, Auteur ;
Luke K.-P. Leung, Auteur
Context. The ricefield rat, Rattus argentiventer, is the main rodent pest of rice in Vietnam, causing annual pre-harvest rice losses of around 10%. Although its diet is reported to consist of mainly rice, other components might also be important[...]
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Impact of crop cycle on movement patterns of pest rodent species between fields and houses in Africa
Ara Monadjem, Auteur ;
Themb'a A. Mahlaba, Auteur ;
Nomfundo Dlamini, Auteur ;
Seth J. Eiseb, Auteur ;
Steven R. Belmain, Auteur ;
Loth S. Mulungu, Auteur ;
Apia W. Massawe, Auteur ;
Rhodes H. Makundi, Auteur ;
Katrine Mohr, Auteur ;
Peter J. Taylor, Auteur
Context. Rodent pests can have severe impacts on crop production in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, the multimammate mouse Mastomys natalensis severely damages agricultural crops in southern and eastern Africa, leading to significant losses. [...]
Article
Malith K. Weerakoon, Auteur ;
Peter B. Banks, Auteur
Context. Bait palatability is a key issue influencing the uptake of toxic baits or non-toxic bait markers. Animals often reject baits with high concentrations of the active compound (whether it is a toxin, vaccine or marker) because of poor pala[...]
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Rhodes H. Makundi, Auteur ;
Apia W. Massawe, Auteur
Rodent management in agriculture remains a major challenge in developing countries where resource-poor farmers are ill equipped to deal with pest species. It is compounded by unpredictable outbreaks, late control actions, lack of/or inadequate e[...]
Article
Florencia G. Palis, Auteur ;
Grant R. Singleton, Auteur ;
Peter R. Brown, Auteur ;
Nguyen Huu Huan, Auteur ;
Christian Umali, Auteur ;
Nguyen Thi Duong Nga, Auteur
Context. Rodents are one of the major constraints in Asian rice production, both in pre- and post-harvest. Rodents are often perceived by farmers in developing countries to be consistently outsmarting humans - a belief that needs to be overcome.[...]
Article
Peter R. Brown, Auteur ;
Nguyen Thi My Phung, Auteur ;
Donald S. Gaydon, Auteur
Context. Rodents cause yield losses of 10-15% in irrigated lowland rice crops in Vietnam, with farmers spending a lot of time and money trying to control them. Despite this, there is little understanding about the optimal timing of rodent contro[...]
Article
Benjamin F. Blank, Auteur ;
Jens Jacob, Auteur ;
Anja Petri, Auteur ;
Alexandra Esther, Auteur
Context. Commonvoles (Microtus arvalis) are the most common vertebrate pests in central European agriculture. During outbreaks common vole populations can increase to an enormous number of individuals; however, this outbreak risk varies regional[...]
