Are avian predators effective biological control agents for rodent pest management in agricultural systems?

L Labuschagne, LH Swanepoel, PJ Taylor, SR Belmain… - Biological Control, 2016 - Elsevier
Worldwide rodent pests are of significant economic and health importance. Controlling
rodent pests will, therefore, not only benefit food security but also human and animal health …

A comparison of the effectiveness of camera trapping and live trapping for sampling terrestrial small-mammal communities

N De Bondi, JG White, M Stevens, R Cooke - Wildlife research, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Context. There is an increasing reliance on the use of camera-trap technologies for surveys
of medium to large terrestrial mammals. Camera trapping may, however, also have …

High levels of habitat loss and fragmentation limit reproductive success by reducing home range size and provisioning rates of Northern saw-whet owls

HL Hinam, CCS Clair - Biological Conservation, 2008 - Elsevier
Studies of the effects of habitat fragmentation have been heavily biased toward population
and community questions, with less attention on the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation …

Camera trapping: a contemporary approach to monitoring invasive rodents in high conservation priority ecosystems

AR Rendall, DR Sutherland, R Cooke, J White - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Invasive rodent species have established on 80% of the world's islands causing significant
damage to island environments. Insular ecosystems support proportionally more biodiversity …

Identification of butterfly based on their shapes when viewed from different angles using an artificial neural network

SH Kang, JH Cho, SH Lee - Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 2014 - Elsevier
Identification of butterfly species is essential because they are directly associated with crop
plants used for human and animal consumption. However, the widely used reliable methods …

[HTML][HTML] Multihost transmission of Schistosoma mansoni in Senegal, 2015–2018

S Catalano, E Léger, CB Fall, A Borlase… - Emerging infectious …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract In West Africa, Schistosoma spp. are capable of infecting multiple definitive hosts, a
lifecycle feature that may complicate schistosomiasis control. We characterized the …

Rodent biology and management: Current status, opinion and challenges in China

X LIU - Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2019 - Elsevier
China experiences serious agricultural damages from rodents, and, correspondingly,
researchers in China are actively studying rodent biology and management. Following the …

Arboreal activity of invasive rodents: conservation implications for the control of an island pest

AH Nance, M Wilson, PA Burns… - Pacific Conservation …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context: Invasive rodents pose a substantial threat to biodiversity and are a leading cause of
species decline and extinction on islands. Population suppression using ground-based …

Wild dogma: an examination of recent “evidence” for dingo regulation of invasive mesopredator release in Australia

BL Allen, RM Engeman, LR Allen - Current Zoology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
There is growing interest in the role that apex predators play in shaping terrestrial
ecosystems and maintaining trophic cascades. In line with the mesopredator release …

A comparative assessment of track plates to quantify fine scale variations in the relative abundance of Norway rats in urban slums

KP Hacker, A Minter, M Begon, PJ Diggle, S Serrano… - Urban …, 2016 - Springer
Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) living in urban environments are a critical public health and
economic problem, particularly in urban slums where residents are at a higher risk for rat …