Rodent Pests
Ecology and Management
$333.07
- Hardcover
476 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2026
Summary
Rodents are the most diverse mammalian order and they inhabit all continents except Antarctica. They are important elements of ecosystems with diverse population dynamics, life history traits and behaviour. Some can cause detrimental damage to crops (agriculture, forestry), intensive livestock operations, infrastructure (urban habitats), human and animal health (rodent-borne pathogens) and in conservation (invasives). Many rodent species provide positive ecosystem services.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800626485 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800626487 |
| Author: | Dr Jens Jacob, Grant R. Singleton |
| Publisher: | CABI Publishing |
| Imprint: | CABI Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 476 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 244mm |
Dr Jens Jacob
Jens Jacob
Dr. Jens Jacob studied ecology and zoology in Jena, Germany and Miami, FL, USA. His scientific focus is on applied rodent research. Following positions at CSIRO Wildlife Research and the Pest Animal Cooperative Research Centre (Australia), he became the leader of the Rodent Research Group of the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture) in Münster, Germany.
His research interests include:
- Rodent population management that is ecologically and economically sustainable in various systems and various regions of the world.
- Assessing and mediating risk associated with rodent management.
- The ecology of rodent-borne pathogens.
- Predictive models for forecasting rodent outbreaks and zoonotic risk to help take early and optimal action.
In the past 30 years, Dr. Jacob has conducted laboratory, enclosure, and field-based projects in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific, funded by national and international donors. He has published over 170 scientific articles, chairs expert groups, and is a subject editor for vertebrates for international peer-reviewed journals.
Grant R Singleton
Grant Singleton is a Visiting Professor at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK, and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, USA. He spent 23 years as a researcher at CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, and 18 years as a Principal Scientist and consultant at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.
He has been involved in research on rodent pests of agriculture and their biology and management in cereal agro-ecosystems in Asia and Australia for 40 years. In eastern Africa, Grant has been on the Scientific Advisory Board of four projects on rodent biology and management. His research strongly aligned with end-users, particularly farmer groups. He co-developed a new management paradigm: “integrated ecologically-based rodent management” in the late 1990s, and this approach is now adopted in more than 40 countries. He has co-authored seven books on rodent biology & management, and three books on natural resource management of rice.
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