Vertebrate Pests in Agriculture: The Indian ScenarioThis book is an attempt to find an acceptable solution to the problem of crop losses of these less studied but economically important groups of vertebrate pests. Sincere efforts have gone into formulation of recommendations keeping in mind the biological needs of vertebrate pests, their conservation status and suffering of the poor farmer. Many a time the sympathies deservedly go to the speechless marauders of crops as it ismanwhohas shrunk, degraded and destroyed their habitat, deprived them of their natural source of food. There are no choices for vertebrate pests but raid the crops in their range but we, humans have several to survive. The book is an attempt to understand this dilemma. |
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Principles of population ecology and vertebrate pest | 1 |
Granivorous bird pests and their management | 29 |
Frugivorous birds and their management | 63 |
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acute rodenticides animals anticoagulants areas bait shyness Bandicota bengalensis behaviour bird damage bird pests breeding bromadiolone burrows caused cereals Chakravarthy chemical coconut commensal commensal rodents crop fields crop raiding cultivated density depredation diseases distribution ecological ecosystems effective elephants evaluation factors farmers feeding forest fruit bats godowns grain groundnut Gujarat habitat Hanuman langur House Crow human hurrianae India infestation insects Jodhpur Jungle Crow Karnataka lesser bandicoot rat lethal losses maize male mammals maturity meltada methods mice monkeys mortality mouse musculus Myna nilgai odours orchards paddy palm Parshad pest species pheromones plants poison bait porcupine poultry Pradesh Prakash predators prevent primates problem protection Punjab Rajasthan Rattus rattus reduce repellents reproductive Rhesus rice Rock Pigeon rodent control rodent damage rodent population rodenticides roosting Rose ringed Parakeet Roseringed Parakeet scare season seedlings seeds Sridhara strategy studies sugarcane Tatera toxic traps trees urine vegetation vertebrate vertebrate pest management wild boar wildlife zinc phosphide