Relationship between abundance of rodents and damage to agricultural crops

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 120, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 405-415

  Brown, Peter R ^a,b   Huth, Neil I ^a   Banks, Peter B ^b   Singleton, Grant R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

APSIM; House mouse; Modelling; Mus domesticus; Wheat; Yield loss

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CROP DAMAGE; CROP YIELD; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; RODENT;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; RODENTIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846849562     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.10.016     Document Type: Article

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