Rats in rice: Linking crop and pest models to explore management strategies

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 560-567

  Brown, Peter R ^a   My Phung, Nguyen Thi ^a,b,c   Gaydon, Donald S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b An Giang Plant Protection Department   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

APSIM Oryza; compensation; damage; irrigated lowland rice; ricefield rats; Vietnam.

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CROP DAMAGE; CROP YIELD; IRRIGATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION MODELING; RICE; RODENT; TRAPPING; YIELD RESPONSE;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 82955206457     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10194     Document Type: Article

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