rodent population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrodentandpopulation
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rodent
noun[C]
uk/ˈrəʊ.dənt/us/ˈroʊ.dənt/
any of various small mammals with large, sharp front teeth, such as mice ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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Our numerical results suggest that it is economically beneficial to control therodentpopulation.
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Even factors such as the load ofrodentpopulationor carrier state among the rodents are hard to modify.
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Today, there exist a number of plague ' basins ' where the disease is endemic (technically, ' enzootic ') to therodentpopulation.
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There had been no recent demolition of buildings or harvesting of fields in the surrounding area, which could have contributed to an increasedrodentpopulation.
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Rainfall and rats: climatically-driven dynamics of a tropicalrodentpopulation.
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In general, the most cost-effective duration of controlling therodentpopulationis 3-4 months every year, and especially at the end of the dry season/beginning of rainy season.
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However, if the duration of control is more than three months, therodentpopulationreduces slowly towards extinction, and faster for longer duration of the control.
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Smallrodentpopulationfluctuations: the effects of age structure and seasonality.
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The first one is that the model uses discrete time steps of one month; however, a lot can happen in arodentpopulationin one month.
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However, in all these papers, there is no dynamic link between the economic considerations and therodentpopulationecology, such as when a control strategy becomes economic efficient.
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There is also a link through rainfall, there being both a seasonal and stochastic component, which affects both therodentpopulationecology and the crop yield.
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There remains a largerodentpopulationin the city and elsewhere.
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However, in the country and among the farming community, cats are kept to control therodentpopulation and dogs are kept for working with cattle and sheep.
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Serious outbreaks of plague are usually started by other disease outbreaks in rodents, or a rise in therodentpopulation.
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Goa also has a high snake population, which keeps therodentpopulationunder control.
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Feral cats, originally introduced by fishermen to control the endemicrodentpopulation, pose an increasing threat to wildlife breeding sites.
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Any serious outbreak of plague in humans is preceded by an outbreak in therodentpopulation.
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Current methods for screening for hantavirus antibodies in rodent populations are laborious, combining sampling in the field and subsequent analyses in the laboratory.
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On the interaction between stabilizing social factors and destabilizing trophic factors in small rodent populations.
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