Insights From Observations and Large‐Scale Field Experiments on Vole Population Cycles in Northern Europe: A 40‐Year Study of Predator–Prey Interactions
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71419
Abstract: ABSTRACT The mechanisms driving 3–5‐year population cycles of voles involve delayed density‐dependent feedback on vole populations. The key drivers of this feedback include prolonged periods of food depletion or predation mortality over more than one… read more here.
Keywords: year; population cycles; vole population; density dependent ... See more keywords
Density-dependent recruitment but not survival drives cyclic dynamics in a field vole population
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2509516122
Abstract: Significance Ecologists seek to understand what drives patterns in the abundance of populations such as the multiannual cycles in abundance in rodents. The prevailing orthodoxy, the predation hypothesis, posits that changing patterns of predation-induced mortality… read more here.
Keywords: survival; recruitment; vole population; field vole ... See more keywords