Mice, rats, and people: the bio‐economics of agricultural rodent pests

By Nils Chr. Stenseth, H. Leirs, A. Skonhoft, S. Davis, R. Pech, H. Andreassen, G. Singleton, M. Lima, R. Machang'u, R. Makundi and 4 more. 2003

338 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Ecology

1. T. Tscharntke
2. P. Banks
3. J. Tylianakis
4. T. Rand
5. B. Arroyo
6. K. Campbell
7. D. Bottrell
8. J. Viñuela

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2. T. Tscharntke
3. T. Rand
4. K. Campbell
5. D. Bottrell
6. P. Banks
7. Nelika K. Hughes
8. K. Schoenly

Citations in the corpus

• Recent large-scale range expansion and outbreaks of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) in NW Spain (2013, background): “…Mougeot, García, & iñuela 2011; Sánchez-Barbudo, Camarero, & Mateo 2012). odenticides add to the cost of farming by individuals or local overnments (Stenseth et al. 2003; Jacob & Tkadlec 2010). or instance, during the 2007 outbreak in CyL, the cost to the ublic purse of emergency vole management…”
• Relationship between abundance of rodents and damage to agricultural crops (2007, neutral): “The dearth of research on the relationship between damage and rodent abundance for rodent pests is surprising considering the scale and extent of rodent damage to crops worldwide (Prakash, 1988; Singleton, 2003; Singleton et al., 1999; Stenseth et al., 2003).”
• Rodent-borne diseases and their risks for public health (2009, background): “This is especially important in developing countries, because it is known that rodents can consume or spoil massive quantities of food that otherwise could have been used for human or animal nutrition (Singleton 2003; Stenseth et al. 2003).”
• Population dynamics and responses to management of plateau pikas Ochotona curzoniae (2007, background): “World-wide, many species of native small mammals have been viewed as agricultural pests, either as consumers of crops or competitors with livestock, and have been the subject of large-scale control campaigns (Stenseth et al. 2003).”
• Resurrecting the ghost of green revolutions past: The brown planthopper as a recurring threat to high-yielding rice production in tropical Asia (2012, background): “…over large areas results in less efficient use of irrigation water (Loevinsohn et al., 1993; Litsinger, 2008) and it may increase problems with rice rats, Rattus argentiventer (Robinson and Kloss), (Lam, 1983; Stenseth et al., 2003) and tungro virus (Wada and Nik, 1992; Cabunagan et al., 2001).”
• Integrated management to reduce rodent damage to lowland rice crops in Indonesia (2005, background): “Rodents may significantly affect crop production and livelihoods of farmers in both developed and developing countries but their impact as related to the choice and associated costs of management actions is poorly known (Stenseth et al., 2003).”
• Spillover edge effects: the dispersal of agriculturally subsidized insect natural enemies into adjacent natural habitats. (2006, background): “Other examples might involve small mammals such as rodents, which are common generalist pests in agricultural habitats world-wide (Stenseth et al. 2003).”
• A review of the evidence for potential impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) on wildlife and humans in Australia (2012, background): “However, although significant effort is invested in evaluating and mitigating the impact of rats on agricultural output (see Stenseth et al. 2003, Meerburg et al. 2009b, Singleton et al. 2010, for reviews), direct predation impacts of black rats on mainland wildlife species are not well known.”
• Effects of agriculture expansion and intensification on the vertebrate and invertebrate diversity in the Pampas of Argentina (2011, background): “Rodents (usually monitored in agricultural landscapes because of their behaviour as pests, Stenseth et al. 2003; Singleton et al. 2005; Brown et al. 2007) are being given particular attention because of their contribution to the complexity of food webs (Ellis et al. 1998; Parera 2002; Millán de la…”
• The next generation of rodent eradications: Innovative technologies and tools to improve species specificity and increase their feasibility on islands (2015, background): “Invasive rodents negatively impact stored foods, crops, and infrastructure and can carry zoo-notic diseases that can impact the health of people and their live-stock (Banks and Hughes, 2012; Meerburg et al., 2009; Stenseth et al., 2003).”
• Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes (2010, neutral): “as agricultural pests [42].”