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Rodent management books
 Field Methods for Rodent Studies in Asia and the Indo-Pacific - New!
K P Aplin, P B Brown, J Jacob, C J Krebs & G R Singleton, (2003). "Field Methods for Rodent Studies in Asia and the Indo-Pacific" ACIAR Monograph No. 100, 223p, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.
Over the past decade rodents have emerged as significant agricultural pests throughout Southeast Asia. This book summarises current knowledge of the 20+ rodents that are major agricultural pests in SE Asia as well as other non-pest rodents. Its clear descriptions and illustrations will help people identify these species. For each one there is a summary of geographic distribution, diet, habits and behaviour. The book includes practical instructions on trapping methods, safe handling of rats and mice, and techniques for assessing reproductive activity. The book can be downloaded on the Web from ACIAR.
 Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management
Singleton, G. R., Hinds, L. A., Krebs, C. J., and Spratt, D.M., eds. (2003) "Rats, mice and people: rodent biology and management." ACIAR Monograph No. 96, 564p. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.
This book is available for $AUD 50.00 including postage. The cost to developing countries will be discounted. The book can also be downloaded on the Web from ACIAR.
 Ecologically-Based Rodent Management
Singleton, G. R., Hinds, L. A, Leirs, H., and Zhang, Z., eds. (1999). "Ecologically-based rodent management." ACIAR Monograph No. 59, 494 pp, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.
This book consists of contributions from authors drawn from 17 countries. It focuses on the concept of ecologically-based management of rodent pests and is divided into three sections: "Basic research", "Methods of management" and "Case studies from Asia and Africa". This is in recognition of the growing demands, particularly in developing countries, for rodent control strategies that have less reliance on chemical rodenticides or better targeting of their use.
This book is available from ACIAR for $45 (AUD). Complimentary copies of the book are available to researchers, libraries and institutions in developing countries. If you believe you may be eligible to receive a free copy, contact rodent-inquiries@csiro.au.
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2005
Arthur, A.D., Pech R.P., and Dickman C.R. 2005. Effects of predation and habitat structure on the population dynamics of house mice in large outdoor enclosures. Oikos 108: 562-72.
Arthur, A. D., Pech, R.P. and Singleton, G.R. (200_). Predicting the effect of virally vectored recMCMV immunocontraception on house mice Mus musculus domesticus) in mallee wheatlands. Wildlife Research (In press)
Baker, S.E., Smith, R.H. and Singleton, G.R. (200-) The Nature of the Beast: Biological Processes in Vertebrate Pest Management. In “Hot Topics in Conservation Biology”, (Macdonald, D, Service, K Eds), Blackwell Publishing, UK . (In press) Belmain, S., Aplin K.P., Azad A.K., Bachchu M.A.A., Baker A., Haque M.S., Harun M., Hasanuzzaman A.T.M., Hossain M., Hossein M.M., Hoque A., Islam A.M., Islam M.S., Kadri A.I., Kamal A.Q., Meyer A., Mian Y., Mohammad N., Roy R., Shafali R.B., and Singleton G.R. 2005. Ecologically-Based Rodent Management for Diversified Rice-Based Cropping Systems in Bangladesh: Final Technical Report 1 April 2002 - 31 March 2005 to Department of International Development, UK, Project no. R 8184, Crop Protection Program. Chatham Maritime, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich.
Brown, P.R. (2005). The effect of simulated mouse damage to wheat in Australia. Crop Protection 24: 101-109.
Brown, P. R., Tuan, N. P., Singleton, G. R., Hue , D. T., Hoa, P. T., Ha, P. T. T., Tan, T. Q., and Tuat, N. V. (200-). Population dynamics of Rattus argentiventer , R. losea and R. rattus inhabiting a mixed farming system in the Red River Delta , Vietnam . Population Ecology . (In press)
Conn , P.B., Arthur, A.D., Bailey, L.L. and Singleton, G.R. (200_). Estimating the abundance of mouse populations of known size: promises and pitfalls of new methods. Ecological Applications (In press) Farroway, L.N., Gorman, S, Lawson,M.A., Harvey, N.L., Jones, D.A., Shellam, G.R. and Singleton, G.R. 2005 . Transmission of two Australian strains of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) in enclosure populations of house mice (Mus domesticus). Epidemiology and Infection 133 , 701-710. Jacob, J. and Wegner, R.E. 2005. Does continuous removal of individuals separate high- and low-quality ricefield rats. Journal of Wildlife Management 69: 821-826.
Singleton, G.R., Brown, P.R., Pech, R.P., Jacob, J., Mutze, G.J. and Krebs, C.J. (2005). One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia – a natural biological curio. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84, 617-627.
Singleton, G.R. and Krebs, C.J. (200-). The secret world of wild mice. In: "The Mouse in Biomedical Research. Volume I – History, genetics and wild mice.” (Eds JG Fox, C Newcomer, A Smith, S Barthold , F Quimby, M Davidsson) Elsevier, San Diego, CA. (In press). Sutherland, D.R., Spencer, P.B.S., Singleton, G.R and Taylor, A. 2005. Kin interactions and changing social structure during a population outbreak of feral house mice. Molecular Ecology 14, 2803-2814.
2004
Brown, P.R., Davies, M.J., Croft, J.D., and Singleton, G.R. (2004). Can farm-management practices reduce the impact of house mouse populations on crops in an irrigated farming system? Wildlife Research 31: 597-604.
Davis, S.A., Leirs, H. Pech R., Zhang, Z. and Stenseth, N.C. (2004). On the economic benefit of predicting rodent outbreaks in agricultural systems. Crop Protection 23: 305-314.
Jacob, J., Herawati, N.A., Davis, S.A. and Singleton, G.R. (2004). The impact of sterilized females on enclosed populations of ricefield rats. Journal of Wildlife Management 68: 1130-1137.
Jacob, J., Matulessy, J. and Sudarmaji (2004). The effects of imposed sterility on movement patterns of female ricefield rats. Journal of Wildlife Management 68: 1138-1144.
Jacob, J. and Sutherland, D. (2004). Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infections in house mice: a matter of age or sex? Wildlife Research 31: 369-373.
Jacob, J., Ylönen, H. and Singleton, G.R. (2004). Spatial distribution of feral house mice during a population eruption. Ecoscience 11: 16-22.
Joshi, R.C., Gergon, E.B., Aplin, K.P., Singleton, G.R., Martin, A.R., Cabigat, J.C., Desamero, N.V., and Sebastian, L.S. (2004). Rodents and other small mammals in Banaue and Hungduan rice terraces, Philippines. International Rice Research Note 29(1): 44-46.
Korpimaki, E., Brown, P.R., Jacob, J. and Pech, R.P. (2004). The puzzles of population cycles and outbreaks of small mammals solved? Bioscience 54: 1071-1079.
Krebs, C.J., Kenney, A.J., Singleton, G.R., Mutze, G., Pech, R.P., Brown, P.R., and Davis, S.A. (2004). Can outbreaks of house mice in south-eastern Australia be predicted by weather models? Wildlife Research 31: 465-474.
Meerburg, B.G., Bonde, M.K., Brom, F.W.A., Endepols, S., Jensen, A.N., Leirs, H., Lodal, J., Singleton, G.R., Pelz, H.J., Rodenburg, T.B., and Kijlstra, A. (2004). Seeking consensus: Rodent management strategies in organic pig and poultry production in Western-Europe. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Sciences 52, 195-205 Singleton, G.R., Brown, P.R. and Jacobs, J. (2004). Ecologically-based rodent management – effectiveness in cropping systems in Southeast Asia. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 52, 163-171
Sutherland, D.R., Banks, P.B., Jacob, J. and Singleton, G.R. (2004). Shifting age structure of house mice during a population outbreak. Wildlife Research 31: 613-618.
2003
Aplin, K. P., Chesser T., and ten Have J. (2003). Evolutionary biology of the genus Rattus: profile of an archetypal rodent pest. In Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Eds G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J. Krebs, and D. M. Spratt. Pp 487-498 . ACIAR Monograph, no. 96. Canberra.
Aplin, K. P., Frost A., Nguyen P. T., La P. L., and Nguyen M. H., . (2003). Identification of rodents of the genus Bandicota in Vietnam and Cambodia. In Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Eds G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J. Krebs , and D. M. Spratt. 531-535. ACIAR Monograph, no. 96. Canberra.
Aplin, Singleton (2003). Balancing rodent management and small mammal conservation in agricultural landscapes: challenges for the present and the future. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 80-88, ACIAR, Canberra. Abstract (pdf 13 Kb)
Arthur, Pech. (2003). The non-lethal impacts of predation on mouse behaviour and reproduction - implications for pest population dynamics. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 329-333, ACIAR, Canberra.
Arthur. A.D., Pech, R.P., Drew, A., Gifford, E., Henry, S., and McKeown, A. (2003). The effect of increased ground-level habitat complexity on mouse population dynamics. Wildlife Research 30: 565-572.
Brown, P.R., Singleton, G.R., Tann, C.R., Mock, I. (2003) Increasing Sowing depth to reduce mouse damage to winter crops. Crop Protection 22:653-660
Brown, P.R., Leung, L.K.P., Sudarmaji, Singleton, G.R. (2003) Movements of the ricefield rat, Rattus argentiventer, near a trap-barrier system in rice crops in west Java, Indonesia. International Journal of Pest Management 49(2): 123-129
Brown, Davies, Croft, Singleton. (2003). Impact of farm management practices on house mouse populations and crops in an irrigated farming system. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp 338-342, ACIAR, Canberra.
Brown, Singleton, Norton, Thompson (2003). Mouser (Version 1.0): an interactive CD-ROM for managing the impact of HOUSE mice in Australia. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 264-266, ACIAR, Canberra.
Brown, Tuan, Singleton, Tuat, Tan, Hoa. (2003). Impact of village-level rodent control practices on rodent populations and rice crops in Vietnam. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 197-202, ACIAR, Canberra.
Cowan, Pech, Curtis. (2003). Field applications of fertility
control for wildlife management. In "Reproductive Science
and Integrated Conservation", (Eds. W.V. Holt, A.R. Pickard,
J.C. Rodger and D.E. Wildt), pp. 305-318, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge.
Cuong, Chien, Han, Duc, Singleton. (2003). Relationship
between rodent damage and yield loss in rice in Mekong Delta. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management",
(Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt),
pp. 297-300, ACIAR, Canberra.
Davis, S., Akison L. K., Farroway L., Singleton G. R., and Leslie K. (2003). Abundance estimators and truth: accounting for individual heterogeneity in wild house mice. Journal of Wildlife Management 67: 634-645. Davis , Pech, Singleton. (2003). Simulation of fertility
control in an eruptive house mouse (Mus domesticus) population
in southeastern Australia. In "Rats, Mice and People:
Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton,
L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 320-324, ACIAR,
Canberra.
Douangboupha, Aplin, Singleton. (2003). Rodent outbreaks
in the uplands of Laos: analysis of historical patterns and
the identity of nuu khii. In "Rats, Mice and People:
Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton,
L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp 103-111, ACIAR, Canberra
Hinds, Hardy, Lawson, Singleton. (2003). Developments in
fertility control for pest animal management. In "Rats,
Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management",
(Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt),
pp. 31-36, ACIAR, Canberra.
Jacob, J. (2003) Short term effects of farming practices on populations of common voles. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 95:321-325.
Jacob, J. and Hempel, N. (2003) Effects of farming practices on spatial behaviour of common voles. Journal of Ethology 21:45-50.
Jacob, J., Ylönen, H., Runcie, M.J., Jones, D.A., Singleton, G.R. (2003) What Affects Bait Uptake By House Mice in Australian Grain Fields? Journal of Wildlife Management 67(2): 341-351
Jacob, J. (2003) The response of small mammal populations to flooding. Mammalian Biology 68: 102-111.
Jacob, Sudarmaji, Singleton. (2003). Ecologically-based
management of ricefield rats on a village scale in West Java
- experimental approach and assessment of habitat use. In
"Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management",
(Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt),
pp. 191-196, ACIAR, Canberra.
Jacob, Nolte, Hartono, Subagja, Sudarmaji. (2003). Pre-
and post-harvest movements of female ricefield rats in West
Javanese ricefields. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent
Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A.
Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 277-280, ACIAR, Canberra.
Jacob, J. 2003. Body weight dynamics of common voles in agro-ecosystems. Mammalia 67: 559-566
Kenney, Krebs, Davis, Pech, Mutze, Singleton. (2003). Predicting
house mice outbreaks in the wheat growing areas of southeastern
Australia? In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology
and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds,
C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 325-328, ACIAR, Canberra.
Khamphoukeo, Douangboupha, Aplin, Singleton. (2003). Pest
and non pest rodents in the upland agricultural landscape
of Laos: a progress report. In "Rats, Mice and People:
Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton,
L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 284-289, ACIAR,
Canberra.
Krebs, C. J. (2003). How does rodent behaviour impact on
population dynamics? In Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology
and Management. Eds G. R. Singleton, L. A. Hinds, C. J.
Krebs, and D. M. Spratt. 117-123 . ACIAR Monograph, no. 96.
Canberra.
Lan, Aplin, Hung, Quoc, Chien, Sang, Singleton. (2003).
Rodent communities and historical trends in rodent damage
in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam: establishing an ecological
basis for effective pest management. In "Rats, Mice
and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds
G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp.
290-296, ACIAR, Canberra.
Mate, Hinds. (2003). Contraceptive vaccine development. In "Reproductive Science and Integrated Conservation", (Eds. W.V. Holt, A.R. Pickard, J.C. Rodger and D.E. Wildt), pp. 291-304, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Merchant, J.C., Kerr, P.J., Simms, N.G., Hood, G.M., Pech, R.P., and Robinson, A.J. (2003). Monitoring the spread of myxoma virus in rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus populations on the southern tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. III. Release, persistence and rate of spread of an identifiable strain of myxoma virus. Epidemiology and Infection 130:135-147.
Pech, Davis, Singleton. (2003). Outbreaks of rodents in
agricultural systems: pest control problems or symptoms of
dysfunctional ecosystems? In "Rats, Mice and People:
Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton,
L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 311-315, ACIAR,
Canberra
Rahmini, Sudarmaji, Jacob, Singleton. (2003). The impact
of age on the breeding performance of female ricefield rats
in West Java. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology
and Management", (Eds G.R.Singleton, L.A. Hinds,
C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 354-357, ACIAR, Canberra.
Singleton, G. (2003) Impacts of rodents on rice production in Asia. International Rice Research Institute Discussion Paper No. 45: 1-30. Singleton, G.R., Sudarmaji, Brown, P.R. (2003) Comparison of different sizes of physical barriers for controlling the impact of the rice field rat, Rattus argentiventer, in rice crops in Indonesia. Crop Protection 22: 7-13.
Singleton, Kenney, Tann, Sudarmaji, Hung. (2003). Myth,
dogma and rodent management: good stories ruined by data? In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management",
(Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt),
pp. 554-560, ACIAR, Canberra.
Singleton, Smythe, Smith, Spratt, Aplin, Smith. (2003).
Rodent diseases in Southeast Asia and Australia: inventory
of recent surveys. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent
Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A.
Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 25-30, ACIAR, Canberra.
Singleton, G.R., Sudarmaji, Tuan, N.P., Sang, N.D., Huan, N.H., Brown, P.R. Jacob, J., Heong, K.L., and Escalada, M.M. (2003). Reduction in chemical use following integrated ecologically-based rodent management. International Rice Research Notes 28(2): 33-35.
Stenseth , N.C., Leirs, H., Skonhoft, A. Davis, S.A., Pech, R.P., Anderassen, H.P., Singleton, G.R., Lima, M., Machang'u, R.S., Makundi, R.H., Zhang, Z., Brown, P.R., Shi, D., and Wan. X. (2003) Mice, rats, and people: the bio-economics of agricultural rodent pests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1: 367-375.
Sudarmaji, Rochman, Singleton, Jacob, Rahmini. (2003).
The efficacy of a trap-barrier system for protecting rice
nurseries from rats in West Java, Indonesia. In "Rats,
Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management",
(Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt),
pp. 306-308, ACIAR, Canberra
Sudarmaji, Singleton, Herawati, Djatiharti, Rahmini. (2003).
Farmers' perceptions and practices in rat management in West
Java, Indonesia. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent
Biology and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A.
Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 389-394, ACIAR, Canberra
Sutherland, Singleton. (2003). Monitoring activity patterns
and social interactions of small mammals with an automated
event recording system: Wild house mice (Mus domesticus) as
a case study. In "Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology
and Management", (Eds G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds,
C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 159-164, ACIAR, Canberra
Tuan, Williams, Brown, Singleton, Tan, Hue, Ha, Hoa. (2003).
Farmers' perceptions and practices in rat management in Vinh
Phuc province, northern Vietnam. In "Rats, Mice and
People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds G.R.
Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp. 399-402,
ACIAR, Canberra
Williams, Singleton, Dickman. (2003). The role of interspecific
competition in determining macrohabitat use by the black rat
and brown rat at Bradleys Head, N.S.W. In "Rats, Mice
and People: Rodent Biology and Management", (Eds
G.R. Singleton, L.A. Hinds, C.J. Krebs and D.M. Spratt), pp.
366-369, ACIAR, Canberra.
Ylönen, H. Jacob, J., Kotler, B.P. 2003. Trappability of rodents in single-capture and multiple-capture traps in arid and open environments: why don't Ugglan traps work? Ann. Zool. Fennici 40:537-541.
Ylönen, H., Jacob, J., Runcie, M.J., Singleton, G.R. (2003) Is reproduction of the Australian house mouse (Mus domesticus) constrained by food? A large scale field experiment. Oecologia 135:372-377
Ylönen, H., Pech, R., Davis S. (2003). Heterogeneous landscapes and the role of refuge on the population dynamics of a specialist predator and its prey. Evolutionary Ecology 17: 349-369.
Zhang, Z, Pech, Davis, Shi, Wan, Zhong. (2003) Extrinsic and intrinsic factors determine the eruptive dynamics of Brandt's voles (Microtus brandti) in Inner Mongolia, China. Oikos 100: 299-310.
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