Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks.
At the end of the 1920s, Tanganyika Territory experienced several serious rodent outbreaks that threatened cotton and other grain production. At the same time, regular reports of pneumonic and bubonic plague occurred in the northern areas of Tanganyika. These events led the British colonial administ...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 83 - 112 |
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