Table of Contents

1: The Natural History of Rodents: Preadaptations to Pestilence 2: Commensal Rodents 3: Rodents in Agriculture and Forestry 4: Rodents as Carriers of Disease 5: Rodent Control Methods: Non-chemical and Non-lethal Chemical, with Special Reference to Food Stores 6: Control Methods: Chemical 7: The Laboratory Evaluation of Rodenticides 8: Field Evaluation of Rodenticides 9: Resistance to Anticoagulant Rodenticides 10: Damage Assessment and Damage Surveys 11: Rodent Control in Practice: Protection of Humans and Animal Health 12: Rodent Control in Practice: Temperate Field Crops and Forestry 13: Rodent Control in Practice: Tropical Field Crops 14: Sociology and Communication of Rodent Management in Developing Countries 15: Ethics in Rodent Control 16: Environmental Impacts of Rodenticides 17: Monitoring Rodenticide Residues in Wildlife 18: Rodent Control and Island Conservation 19: Rodent Control: Back to the Future (the Sequel)

About the Author

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 has been involved in research on rodent pests of agriculture and their biology and management in cereal agro-ecosystems in Asia & Australia (35 years). He has also been on the Scientific Advisory Board of four projects on rodent biology and management in eastern Africa, and his research strongly aligned with end-users, particularly farmer groups. He developed a new management paradigm: "integrated ecologically-based rodent management" in the late 1990s and this approach is now adopted in more than 35 countries. He has co-authored 6 books on rodent biology & management, and 2 books on natural resource management of rice. He has 157 peer-reviewed publications listed in the Web of Science with an H score of 38 and has also authored more than 90 book chapters.