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Importance of small mammals as pests in agriculture and stored products

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Ecology of small mammals

Abstract

Small mammals, especially rodents with their self-sharpening incisors and phenomenal capacity to increase in numbers, take a toll of man’s provisions all over the globe. The history of rodent plagues can be traced back to biblical times, and the earliest historians. The first critical review of the phenomenon was compiled by Elton (1942). His ageless description of the course of events duing a rodent outbreak:

“The affair runs always along a similar course. Voles multiply. Destruction reigns. There is dismay, followed by outcry, and demands to Authority. Authority remembers its experts or appoints some: they ought to know. The experts advise a Cure. The Cure can be almost anything: golden mice, holy water from Mecca, a Government Commission, a culture of bacteria, poison, prayers denunciatory or tactful, a new god, a trap, a Pied Piper. The Cures have only one thing in common: with a little patience they always work. They have never been known entirely to fail. Likewise they have never been known to prevent the next outbreak. For the cycle of abundance and scarcity has a rhythm of its own, and the Cures are applied just when the plague of voles is going to abate through its own loss of momentum.

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Myllymäki, A. (1979). Importance of small mammals as pests in agriculture and stored products. In: Stoddart, D.M. (eds) Ecology of small mammals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5772-5_6

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