Population modeling as aid to rodent control in the field

Forecasting the damages by voles on plant crops depends on a good forecast of vole population density. Biological work in Vendee from 1959 til 1968 has furnished the fundamentals of a population model. Further work on the relationship between breeding and climate enabled us to set up a practical for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spitz, Francois
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: eScholarship, University of California 1978
Subjects:
VOLE
field
Microtus arvalis
FRANCE
irruption
population
population dynamics
forecasting
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r50c9mh
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Summary:Forecasting the damages by voles on plant crops depends on a good forecast of vole population density. Biological work in Vendee from 1959 til 1968 has furnished the fundamentals of a population model. Further work on the relationship between breeding and climate enabled us to set up a practical forecasting model. This is applied by the Plant Protection Service, and the damage prevention system consists of a test trapping in winter, a population forecasting in early March, and, if necessary, poisoning in March-April. Generalization of the system is in progress.

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