van Gerwen, Maite A.A.M. Nieuwland, Joachim van Lith, Hein A. Meijboom, Franck L.B.
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Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary Most people think the welfare of non-human animals matters. However, when it comes to rats and mice labeled as ‘pests’, welfare generally appears less important. Together with stakeholders in the field of pest management, we are working to develop a framework for less harmful rodent control that can be used by pest controllers. An on...
Hanson, Chad Rex, Kristen Kappes, Peter J. Siers, Shane R.
A 2012 attempt to remove two rat species (Rattus tanezumi and R. exulans) from Wake Atoll was partially successful. R. tanezumi was eradicated from all three islands (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale), and R. exulans was eradicated from Peale. However, R. exulans remained on Wake and Wilkes and have since recovered to very high densities. In 2013, a panel o...
Mooney, Michael R. James, David K. Kirkpatrick, Bruce Why, Adena De Villa, Augustine Mendoza, Sergio Gutierrez, Alexandria
Homeless encampments are a persistent feature in the city of Oakland, California. Unsanitary conditions in these camps can contribute to large populations of Norway rats and associated vector-borne disease. Alameda County Vector Control Services District has developed a surveillance program for safe and efficient data collection in these encampment...
Dossou, Henri-Joël Adjovi, Nestor Houemenou, Gualbert Bagan, Thomas Mensah, Guy-Apollinaire Dobigny, Gauthier
Description of the subject. Rodents may be major pests to crops and stored food, thus threatening food security. Among them, invasive species such as rats and mice are of particular concern since they are disseminated globally following international trade. We investigated the small mammal assemblage within the international seaport of Cotonou, Ben...
Baldwin, Roger A. Meinerz, Ryan Becchetti, Theresa A. Quinn, Niamh
California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus spp.) are one of the most damaging vertebrate species in California agricultural systems, including rangelands. One of the primary tools used to mitigate damage caused by ground squirrels is rodenticide application. First-generation anticoagulants, such as diphacinone, are the most commonly used rodentic...
Ross, James Ryan, Grant Jansen, Merel Sjoberg, Tim
Possums, stoats, and rats introduced into previously mammal-free New Zealand (NZ) seriously impact our native flora and fauna. As a result, considerable research effort has focused on their control, with excellent success in the eradication of mammals from offshore islands. Unfortunately, we have run out of defendable, non-human occupied islands an...
Munawar, Nadeem Mahmood, Tariq
Habitat manipulation is an important technique that can be used for controlling rodent damage in agricultural ecosystems. It involves intentional manipulation of vegetation cover in habitats adjacent to active burrows of rodents to reduce shelter and food availability and to increase predation pressure. The current study was conducted in the Pothwa...
Niebuhr, Chris N. Leinbach, Israel L. McAuliffe, Thomas W. Foster, Dean K. Siers, Shane R. Berentsen, Are R. Rex, Kristen
Rodent eradications have contributed to the recovery of many threatened species, but challenges often exist for campaigns that occur on tropical islands when compared to more temperate regions. A post-operational review of a rat eradication operation on Wake Atoll indicated that certain areas, such as those with high alternative food abundance, may...
Adduci, Luciana B León, Vanina A Busch, María Fraschina, Jimena
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Pest management science
The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a cosmopolitan rodent that has become adapted to living in close association with humans and is considered a serious pest because it poses a risk to human health, and causes economic losses due to food and crop consumption and damage to buildings. Its control in livestock farms is achieved mainly through the applic...
Mariën, Joachim Borremans, Benny Kourouma, Fodé Baforday, Jatta Rieger, Toni Günther, Stephan Magassouba, N’Faly Leirs, Herwig Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth
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Emerging Microbes & Infections
The Natal multimammate mouse ( Mastomys natalensis ) is the reservoir host of Lassa virus, an arenavirus that causes Lassa haemorrhagic fever in humans in West Africa. Because no vaccine exists and therapeutic options are limited, preventing infection through rodent control and human behavioural measures is currently considered to be the only optio...
