عنوان

Not all sigmodontine rodents in the sugarcane fields in coastal Veracruz, Mexico, are pests

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عنوان اصلي

Not all sigmodontine rodents in the sugarcane fields in coastal Veracruz, Mexico, are pests

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Villa C., Beatriz; Lopez-Forment, William; Villa C., Martha; Prescott, Colin V.

متن يادداشت

Rats and mice have traditionally been considered one of the most important pests of sugarcane. However, ''control'' campaigns are rarely specific to the target species, and can have an effect on local wildlife, in particular non-pest rodent species. The objective of this study was to distinguish between rodent species that are pests and those that are not, and to identify patterns of food utilization by the rodents in the sugarcane crop complex. Within the crop complex, subsistence crops like maize, sorghum, rice, and bananas, which are grown alongside the sugarcane, are also subject to rodent damage. Six native rodent species were trapped in the Papaloapan River Basin of the State of Veracruz; the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), the rice rate (Oryzomys couesi), the small rice rat (O. chapmani), the white footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), the golden mouse (Reithrodomomys sumichrasti), and the pigmy mouse (Baiomys musculus). In a stomach content analysis, the major food components for the cotton rat, the rice rat and the small rice rat were sugarcane (4.9 to 30.1%), seed (2.7 to 22.9%), and vegetation (0.9 to 29.8%); while for the golden mouse and the pigmy mouse the stomach content was almost exclusively seed (98 to 100%). The authors consider the first three species to be pests of the sugarcane crop complex, while the last two species are not.

تاريخ نشر

1998

عنوان

Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference

شماره جلد

18

عنصر شناسه اي

Villa C., Beatriz; Lopez-Forment, William; Villa C., Martha; Prescott, Colin V.

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y