Most small rodent populations in the world have fascinating population dynamics. In the
northern hemisphere, voles and lemmings tend to show population cycles with regular …

Individual variation in behavior and physiology is a widespread and ecologically functional
phenomenon in nature in virtually all vertebrate species. Due to domestication of laboratory …

Human-mediated environmental changes have resulted in appropriate concern for the
conservation of ecological systems and have led to the development of many ecological …

The population cycles of rodents at northern latitudes have puzzled people for centuries,,
and their impact is manifest throughout the alpine ecosystem,. Climate change is known to …

During the past two decades population cycles in voles, grouse and insects have been
fading out in Europe. Here, we discuss the cause and implication of these changes. Several …

Common voles (Microtus arvalis) are common small mammals in some European
landscapes. They can be a major rodent pest in European agriculture and they are also a …

Rodent outbreaks have been occurring in Europe for thousands of years. More than two
millennia ago, Aristotle (384-322 BC) pointed out that small rodents can appear in great …

Periodic travelling waves have been reported in a number of recent spatio-temporal field
studies of populations undergoing multi-year cycles. Mathematical modelling has a major …

Common voles (Microtus arvalis) are widespread in the European agricultural landscape
from central Spain to central Russia. During population outbreaks, significant damage to a …

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was established in 1960 by the Ford and
Rockefeller Foundations with the help and approval of the Government of the Philippines …