Editorial: Trends in Urban Rodent Monitoring and Mitigation: Improving Our Understanding of Population and Disease Ecology, Surveillance and Control

摘要

The urban environment is unique among earth’s ecosystem in that it is almost entirely created,maintained, and modified by humans. As such, it is not often a focus of ecological research (Dysonet al., 2019). However, a number of wild animals thrive in urban centers, particularly rodents.Indeed, certain species of rodents are so well-adapted to close cohabitation with people that theyare rarely found in habitats devoid of their human counterparts (Aplin et al., 2003). These so-calledcommensal rodents can be found in almost every corner of every city on earth (Lund, 1994) andhumans are more likely to interact with them than any other wildlife species.