This book has four broad aims to raise the profile of the importance of basic research for developing effective applied management of rodent pest to argue the need for an ecologically based approach to raise the profile of rodent pest management in developing countries and to spark interest in prospective students in a challenging but rewarding field of endeavour. 14 ecologically based population management of the rice field 305 rat in indonesia luke kp leung grant r singleton sudarmaji and rahmini 15 population ecology and management of rodent pests in the mekong river delta vietnam peter r brown nguyen quy hung nguyen manh hung and monica van wensveen 16 rodent management in thailand 6. Ecologically based management techniques of rodent pests august 2018 in book crop improvement for sustainability pp249 266 edition 1 chapter 14 publisher daya publishing houser a . The first international conference on rodent biology and management held in beijing china in oct 1998 brought together leading researchers of the basic biology of rodents and those charged with developing and implementing management strategies for rodent pests especially in developing countries selected papers from the beijing conference are presented in 3 sections 1 contributions