Rodents are known to harbour Leptotrombidium Mites that transmits Orientia tsutsugamushi to healty people causing Scrub typhus. Thus estimation of the population density of rodents will be helpful in studing the risk behaviour.
You can have a look at these articles:
- Developing relative abundance techniques (RATs)
for monitoring rodent populations
- Density estimation for small mammals from livetrapping grids: rodents in northern Canada
Dear , I used the Baited trap/night method which mentioned in the two papers attached below published by me in Baghdad , Iraq.
For CMR studies several programmes are available and can be easily downloaded), among them the following two are widely used:-
1. programme capture- you can estimate population abundance and density
2.programme MARK- to estimate abumndance, density and survival rate.
A number of papers are available
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