Sentences with phrase «rodent populations in»

They will help keep rodents away from grain and food storage areas or keep rodent populations in warehouses in check.

He proposed an independent study project in 1998, during his last year of his undergraduate work: studying hantaviruses within the rodent population in Montreal.

What does the rodent population in New Zealand have to do with climate change?

A barn cat is the safest way to control the rodent population in your barn.

While Drumlin Farm is a wildlife sanctuary and doesn't generally allow pets on site, this role of a barn cat, keeping the rodent population in check, is an important function in a working barn.

While these cats become part of the natural ecosystem, often reducing the rodent population in our neighborhoods, they can also have a negative impact on native wildlife and songbirds.

An excellent hunter and renown for its mousing and ratting capabilities, this longhaired cat is often employed as a farm cat, to keep the rodent population in check.

«Because we have such a high rodent population in the northwest, we always have a large amount of rodent pressure,» says Dan Huie of United Pest Solutions Inc. in Seattle.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

Coyotes are part of our ecosystem and play a vital role in controlling smaller populations such as rodents, squirrels, mice and even Canada geese.

While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.

Closer to home, when carrying out ecological surveying in London, I had been required to liaise with the local authorities — for example, to get permission to trap rodents (alive) in public parks, in order to assess the size of their populations.

A mutation could be implanted in a critical mass of mosquitoes or rodents or some other pest, and the mutation would spread through the population for good or for ill.

Elizabeth Addis, assistant professor of biology at Gonzaga University, and three senior biology majors are spending this summer researching why the local population of yellow - bellied marmots — those gregarious, burrowing rodents ubiquitous near the Spokane River — are not only surviving but thriving in the urban areas of Spokane.

In her lab, she studies rodents to see how genetic variation is generated and maintained in natural populationIn her lab, she studies rodents to see how genetic variation is generated and maintained in natural populationin natural populations.

For the JCI study, the team applied the radiotracer to monitor olfactory sensory neuron population dynamics in a rodent model, using PET to measure its uptake across the animals» lifespan, including during age - related neurodegeneration.

The bacterium normally thrives in rodent populations, passing from one animal to another via the bites of plague - infected fleas.

Lead author Dr Aaron Greenville said their model suggested that if removing introduced cats and foxes, the rodent population would increase by almost one in 10.

«The work clearly shows that, despite their size, small rodents play a much larger role in seed dispersal for some tree species than previously recognized,» says Joshua Plotkin, a population biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who mathematically models evolutionary and ecological questions.

The team speculates that detrimental mutations have survived in humans and chimps because these species have had much smaller breeding populations than rodents throughout evolution.

Some large mammals perform non-redundant seed dispersal services for very large - seeded plants [52,53] and their local extirpation may lead to an increase in rodent populations and seed predation [54].

Tissier and her colleagues had been looking into the effect of wheat - and corn - based diets in European hamsters because the rodent's population in France was quickly disappearing.

Climate fluctuations in Asia are known to trigger plague outbreaks, as climate variation is closely tied to rodent population densities.

Ejaculate investment in a promiscuous rodent, Peromyscus maniculatus: effects of population density and social role.

Evolutionary rates of skull dimensions in different rodent populations.

The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the IER literature to date, with a specific focus on its effects on cardiometabolic health indices in rodent and human populations.

In recent years, intermittent energy restriction (IER) has become the subject of considerable scientific interest as an alternative approach to weight - loss and / or improving metabolic health, and has been studied in rodent and human populationIn recent years, intermittent energy restriction (IER) has become the subject of considerable scientific interest as an alternative approach to weight - loss and / or improving metabolic health, and has been studied in rodent and human populationin rodent and human populations.

It will also be important to determine the effects of IER in other populations, for example in individuals with more profound metabolic derangements such as those with established T2DM, the evidence for which is relatively sparse.36 Additionally, given that several rodent and human IER (50 - 100 % ER on restricted days) trials have demonstrated metabolic improvements in the absence of overall ER 15, 22, 27, 31, 53,105, one can speculate that IER may have potential applications within non-overweight populations and as a maintenance strategy post-weight-loss.

Rodent Models: Interventional IER trials in animal populations have exclusively used rodent mRodent Models: Interventional IER trials in animal populations have exclusively used rodent mrodent models.

She's designated as the subservient voice of reason for the protagonist, Surly (voice of Will Arnett), a purple squirrel (apparently there really is one of these) who has led most of the park's rodent population to embrace the easy pickings in an abandoned nut shop across the street from their urban forest.

The fixed cats do a good job of keeping rodent and other pest populations in check.

A hunter at heart, Shiba Inus should not be left with small animals unless you need some help in keeping the rodent population under control.

The natural host in the wild for the LCM virus is the rodent population and hamsters would most likely acquire their infection from this source.

They do have benefits in reducing rodent populations around human populations (without using all kinds of pesticides around where people live).

Because the bacteria that cause rat bite fever are part of the normal bacterial population in rats, it is practically impossible to eliminate them from these rodents.

And even if FWS is successful at removing cats from some locations, the IPMP / EA fails to take into account the risk of mesopredator release — the inevitable spike in non-native rodent populations — and its impact on the native species the IPMP / EA aims to protect.

With the increase in plant growth from the wet winter fueling a surge in the rodent population, an increase in plague activity is expected.

By controlling rodent populations, coyotes protect crops and agriculture in Massachusetts.

But, in our particular case, we encourage the population of feral cats, as we have four granaries, and they were some of our best farm workers, and kept down the rodent population.

Not only was the Siberian Forest cat talked and written about, it was also highly revered for its natural hunting abilities in keeping the rodent population under control on the local farms.

«The results,» wrote George, «established a basis for examining the possibility that cat predation may result in depleted winter populations of microtine rodents and other prey of Red - tailed Hawks, Marsh Hawks, and American Kestrels.»

Feral cats often provide a valuable service in keeping down the rodent population.

In addition, having a maintained cat population will keep the number of rodents low in a neighbourhooIn addition, having a maintained cat population will keep the number of rodents low in a neighbourhooin a neighbourhood.

After a mild 2015 - 2016 winter, the rodent population exploded, and there has been a 40 % increase in rat complaints since last year.

Rodent populations should also be controlled since they can lead to an increase in fleas which feed on tapeworm eggs.

Slowly but surely, however, there is a movement towards not only accepting the feral cat colonies that call our neighborhoods home, but towards caring for these outdoor cats, cats who provide a service by driving down the rodent population for the homes and businesses in communities all across the country.

Except in 1911, the Animal Rescue League and ASPCA numbers presented by Forbush in a table appeared to reflect relatively stable cat populations, which might even have been in decline as the advent of the automobile reduced the numbers of stables ---- and rodent and cat habitat ---- in their respective cities.

Additionally, it should be worth pointing out that the extirpation of cats was an important factor in the spread of bubonic plague in Europe, due to the absence of cats as predators upon the plague - infected rodent populations of the continent.

On Macquarie Island successful eradication has had «dire» [45] consequences in the form of rapidly increasing rabbit and rodent populations.

«The cats, who keep the rodent population under control, will be killed in a ferocious manner, using Compound 10/80, which is a gut - wrenching poison of the most unimaginable and lengthy horror.