Rodent management in animal farms by anticoagulant rodenticides

Crop Protection Research Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-124

  Moran, Shmuel ^a  

^a EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRING; FARM BUILDINGS; PESTICIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RATS; ROOFS; SURVEYS;

ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE; CONSUMPTION RATES; CONTROL OPERATIONS; CONTROL PROCEDURES; DAMAGE STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; MILKING EQUIPMENT; SECOND GENERATION;

RAT CONTROL;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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