Rodents: Habitat, Pathology and Environmental Impact

$170.00

Alfeo Triunveri (Editor)
Desi Scalise (Editor)

Series: Animal Science, Issues and Research
BISAC: NAT019000

This book gathers topical research from across the globe in the study of the habitat, pathology and environmental impact of the rodent population. Topics discussed include rodents in urban ecosystems of Russia and the USA; the European water vole of Western Siberia; a study of rodents in field investigations; the potential use of Proechimys (spiny rat) in the field of neuroscience; niche overlap and resource partitioning among three urban rodent species; helminth parasites of hydromyine rodents from the island of New Guinea and rodent management in animal farms by anticoagulant rodenticides. (Imprint: Nova)

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Rodents in Urban Ecosystems of Russia and the USA
(Lyudmila Khlyap, Gregory Glass, Michael Kosoy, A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia, and others)

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors of Regulation of Reproductive Potential in the Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius) Population from Western Siberia
(Mikhail A. Potapov, Galina G. Nazarova, Vladimir Yu. Muzyka, Olga F. Potapova, Vadim I. Evsikov, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
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Rodents and Space: What Behavior do we Study under Semi-Natural and Laboratory Conditions?
(Vladimir S. Gromov, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russia)

Proechimys: A Rodent Still Poorly Understood
(Carla Alessandra Scorza, Bruno Henrique Silva Araujo, Laila Brito Torres, Esper Abrão Cavalheiro, Disciplina de Neurologia Experimental, Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM), São Paulo, Brasil, and others)

Niche Overlap and Resource Partitioning among Three Urban Rodent Species
(Eduardo de Masi, Francisco Alberto Pino, Municipal Health Department, Municipal Government of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and others)

Helminth Parasites of Hydromyine Rodents from the Island of New Guinea
(Lesley R. Smales, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia)

Rodents
(Diego F. Calvisi, Maddalena Frau, Maria M. Simile, Francesco Feo, Rosa M. Pascale, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine and Oncology, Division of Experimental Pathology and Oncology, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy) (a)

Crop Protection Research Advances
Rodent Management in Animal Farms by Anticoagulant Rodenticides
(Shmuel Moran, Plant Protection and Inspection Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Bet Dagan, Israel)*

Agricultural Production
Sustained Agriculture: The Need to Manage Rodent Damage
(Gary Witmer, Grant Singleton, USDA National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, and others)*

Index

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