Staff Profile:Dr Colin Prescott

Name:

Dr Colin Prescott

Job Title:

Academic, Director, Vertebrate Pest Unit (VPU), Harborne Building

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• The non-target impact of rodenticide use in the field
• Integrated / ecologically based management of rodent species
• Vertebrate pest management as a conservation tool
• Anticoagulants; biphasic elimination and the impact on non-target species
• The significance of anticoagulant liver residues in wildlife
• Physiological resistance to anticoagulants; detection, quantification and impact on treatment outcome
• Toxicity of anticoagulant; and variations between species and sex
• Rodent behaviour and its impact on control
• The Wood mouse as a non-target model for field applications of pesticide

Research groups / Centres:

Centre for Wildlife Assessment and Conservation

Ecology research group

Publications:

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Jump to: 2011 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2003 | 2000 | 1998 | 1996 | 1994 | 1992

Number of items: 25.

2011

• Prescott, C. V. and Stuart, A. (2011) Rodents as carriers of disease: preliminary studies in the United Kingdom. In: 7th International Conference on Urban Pests, August 07-10, 2011, Ouro Preto, Brazil, pp. 303-306. (Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Urban Pests.)
• Prescott, C. (2011) Development of rodenticides and the impact of resistance on anticoagulant rodenticides. In: 7th International Conference on Urban Pests., August 07-10, 2011, Ouro Preto, Brazil, pp. 33-36. (Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Urban Pests.)
• Prescott, C. V., Buckle, A.P., Gibbings, J. G., Allan, N.W. and Stuart, A.M. (2011) Anticoagulant resistance in Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus Berk.) in Kent - a VKORC1 single nucleotide polymorphism, tyrosine139phenylalanine, new to the UK. International Journal of Pest Management, 57 (1). pp. 61-65. ISSN 0967-0874 doi: 10.1080/09670874.2010.523124
• Buckle, A. P. and Prescott, C. V. (2011) Effects of tamper-resistant bait boxes on bait uptake by Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus Berk.). International Journal of Pest Management, 57 (1). pp. 77-83. ISSN 0967-0874 doi: 10.1080/09670874.2010.537793
• Stuart, A. M., Prescott, C. and Singleton, G. R. (2011) Is a native rodent competitively dominant over an invasive rodent in lowland agro-forest habitat of the Philippines? In: 8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference, 26-30 September 2011, pp. 167-168. (In Press) (Proceedings of the 8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference)
• Stuart, A. M., Prescott, C. V., Singleton, G. R. and Joshi, R. C. (2011) Knowledge, attitudes and practices of farmers on rodent pests and their management in the lowlands of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor, Philippines. Crop Protection, 30 (2). pp. 147-154. ISSN 0261-2194 doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2010.10.002
• Daniells, L., Buckle, A. P. and Prescott, C. (2011) Resistance as a factor in environmental exposure of anticoagulant rodenticides: a modelling approach. In: 8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference, 26-30 September 2011, Berlin, Germany, pp. 58-59. (In Press) (Proceedings of the 8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference)
• Stuart, A., Prescott, C., MacIntyre, S., Sethar, A., Neuman, B., McCarthy, N. D., Wimalarathna, H. and Maiden, M. C. J. (2011) The role of rodents as carriers of disease on UK farms: a preliminary investigation. In: 8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference, 26-30 September 2011, Berlin, Germany, pp. 198-199. (In Press) (Proceedings of the 8th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference)

2008

• Stuart, A. M., Prescott, C. V. and Singleton, G. R. (2008) Biology and management of rodent communities in complex agroecosystems – lowlands. In: Joshi, R. C., Singleton, G. R. and Sebastian, L. S. (eds.) Philippine Rats: Ecology and Management. Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippine Rice Research Institute, pp. 37-56.
• Stuart, A. M., Prescott, C. V., Singleton, G. R. and Joshi, R. C. (2008) Rodent diversity in the lowland agro-ecosystems of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor (SMBC), Philippines. Sylvatrop, 18 (1-2). pp. 103-118. ISSN 0015-0022

2007

• Hussain, I. and Prescott, C. V. (2007) Effectiveness of warfarin for controlling the Lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) in field crops of Pothwar Plateau, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 38 (4). pp. 283-290. ISSN 0030-9923
• Buckle, A. P., Endepols, S. and Prescott, C. V. (2007) Relationship between resistance factors and treatment efficacy when bromadiolone was used against anticoagulant-resistant Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus Berk.) in Wales. International Journal of Pest Management, 53 (4). pp. 291-297. ISSN 0967-0874 doi: 10.1080/09670870701469872
• Endepols, S., Prescott, C. V., Klemann, N. and Buckle, A. P. (2007) Susceptibility to the anticoagulants bromadiolone and coumatetralyl in wild Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) from the UK and Germany. International Journal of Pest Management, 53 (4). pp. 285-290. ISSN 0967-0874 doi: 10.1080/09670870701427045
• Stuart, A. M., Prescott, C. V., Singleton, G. R., Joshi, R. C. and Sebastian, L. S. (2007) The rodent species of the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Philippines - Target or non-target species for management? International Journal of Pest Management, 53 (2). pp. 139-146. ISSN 0967-0874 doi: 10.1080/09670870701192433
• Prescott, C. V., Buckle, A. P., Hussain, I. and Endepols, S. (2007) A standardised BCR resistance test for all anticoagulant rodenticides. International Journal of Pest Management, 53 (4). pp. 265-272. ISSN 0967-0874 doi: 10.1080/09670870701245249

2006

• Prescott, C. V., Buckle, A.P., Endepols, S. and Hussain, I. (2006) A standardised BCR-resistance test for all anticoagulant rodenticides. In: Fifth European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference, Budapest, Hungary.

2005

• Buckle, A. P., Prescott, C. V. and Sharples, R. (2005) Europe’s biocidal products directive: benefits and costs in urban pest management. In: 5th International Conference on Urban Pests., 10-13 July 2005, Singapore, pp. 343-349. (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Urban Pests.)
• Pelz, H. J., Rost, S., Hunerberg, M., Fregin, A., Heiberg, A. C., Baert, K., MacNicoll, A. D., Prescott, C. V., Walker, A. S., Oldenburg, J. and Muller, C. R. (2005) The genetic basis of resistance to anticoagulants in rodents. Genetics, 170 (4). pp. 1839-1847. ISSN 0016-6731 doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.040360

2003

• Hussain, I. and Prescott, C. (2003) Warfarin susceptibility in the lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis). In: Singleton, G. R., Hinds, L. A., Krebs, C. J. and Spratt, D. M. (eds.) Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Monograph Series (MN096). Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australai, pp. 465-468. ISBN 1863203567
• Prescott, C. V. (2003) A reappraisal of blood clotting response tests for anticoagulant resistance and a proposal for a standardised BCR test methodology. RRAC Technical Monograph. 2003. Technical Report. Rodenticide Resistance Action Committee of CropLife International pp21.

2000

• Prescott, C. V. and Buckle, A.P. (2000) Blood-clotting response tests for resistance to diphacinone and chlorophacinone in the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus Berk.). Crop Protection, 19 (5). pp. 291-296. ISSN 0261-2194 doi: 10.1016/S0261-2194(00)00018-1

1998

• Villa, B. C., Lopez-Forment, W., Villa, M. C. and Prescott, C. (1998) Not all sigmodontine rodents in the sugarcane fields in costal Veracruz, Mexico, are pests. In: Baker, R. O. (ed.) Proceedings of the Eighteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference. University of California, Davis, USA, pp. 236-241.

1996

• Prescott, C. (1996) Preliminary study of the genetics of resistance in the house mouse. In: Timm, R. M. and Crabb , A. C. (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventeenth Vertebrate Pest Conference. University of California, Davis, USA, pp. 83-87.

1994

• Buckle, A. P., Prescott, C. and Ward, K. J. (1994) Resistance to the first and second generation anticoagulant rodenticides: a new perspective. In: Halverson, W. S. and Crabb, A. C. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference. University of California, Davis, USA, pp. 138-144.

1992

• Prescott, C., El-Amin, M. and Smith, R. H. (1992) Calciferols and bait shyness in the laboratory rat. In: Borrecco, J. E. and Marsh, R. E. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference. University of California, Davis, USA, pp. 218-223. ISBN 9780932857118

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