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Dynamic model of seasonal breeding rodent pest population controlled with short-acting sterilant.

LIU Han-wu1,2,3, JIN Zhen2, ZHANG Feng-qin3, LI Qiu-ying3   

  1. (1College of Electromechanical Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051,  China; 2College of Science, North
    University of China, Taiyuan 030051,  China; 3Department of Applied Mathematics, Yuncheng University, Yuncheng 044000, Shanxi, China)
  • Online:2013-04-18 Published:2013-04-18

Abstract: Rodent pests bring great damage to human beings, while rodenticide and sterilant can be used to control the pests. After ingesting sterilant, rodent pests lose their fertility, but in some cases, the sterile individuals may gain their fertility again, produce offspring, and enlarge population size. In this paper, the dynamic models of rodent pest population under lethal control and short-acting contraception control were formulated, and, with the prerequisite of the seasonal breeding of rodent pest population, the models were used to regularly analyze their behaviors and the effects of the contraception rate, lethal rate, control interval, and sterilant valid period on the dynamics of the pest population. The results showed that larger contraception rate and lethal rate and shorter control interval could have better control effect, making the controlled population become smaller and even died out. Short-acting sterilant limited the control effect. At the later period of breeding season, the rodent pest population controlled with shortacting sterilant would have a weak recovery.