A review on biological control of grassland ecosystem harmful rodents

The rodents damage is one of the worldwide disasters in grassland ecosystem nowadays. Therefore, its effective prevention and control is an important worldwide topic. Human have made strenuous efforts on controlling and eliminating the harmful rodents, but a variety of measures have both advantages and disadvantages. It was difficult to give considerations with high efficiency, safety and environmental friendly. Thus, it was failed to get rid of emergency control and still in repeated investment state. Based on these, to provide helpful references for grassland ecosystem rodents vontrol in our country, this study summarized przncipal measures of biological control, the current situation and the main existing problems of rodent damage prevention and control at home and abroad.