Understanding rat occurrences in oil palm plantation using high-resolution satellite image and GIS data

• Main Authors: Phua, Mui How, C. W. Chong, A. H. Ahmad, M. N. Hafidzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: QL Zoology; SF Animal culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24362/1/Understanding%20rat%20occurrences%20in%20oil%20palm%20plantation%20using%20high-resolution%20satellite%20image%20and%20GIS%20data.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24362/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-016-9496-z
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Rats are an important vertebrate pest of oil palm in Malaysia. This damage translates into substantial economic loss to the oil palm plantation sector. We used habitat factors dervived from GIS data to develop a logistic regression model to predict rat occurrence in a FELDA oil palm plantation in Sa...