Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve

Voles and weasels in the boreal Fennoscandian small mammal community: What happens if the least weasel disappears due to climate change?

(2019) Hannu YLÖNEN et al.   Integrative Zoology

Population cycles in voles and lemmings: state of the science and future directions

(2019) Madan K. Oli   MAMMAL REVIEW

Documenting lemming population change in the Arctic: Can we detect trends?

(2019) Dorothée Ehrich et al.   AMBIO

Intergenerational fitness effects of the early life environment in a wild rodent

(2019) Joannes Van Cann et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Early life of fathers affects offspring fitness in a wild rodent

(2019) Joannes Van Cann et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Weather influences M. arvalis reproduction but not population dynamics in a 17-year time series

(2019) Patrick Giraudoux et al.   Scientific Reports

Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator–prey system

(2019) Bernd Blasius et al.   NATURE

Nonlinear population dynamics are ubiquitous in animals

(2019) T. J. Clark et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history

(2018) Melanie Dammhahn et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Population cycles: generalities, exceptions and remaining mysteries

(2018) Judith H. Myers   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Synchronous boom–bust cycles in central Australian rodents and marsupials in response to rainfall and fire

(2018) Kerrie Bennison et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Transient phenomena in ecology

(2018) Alan Hastings et al.   SCIENCE

Seasonal difference in temporal transferability of an ecological model: near-term predictions of lemming outbreak abundances

(2018) Eivind Flittie Kleiven et al.   Scientific Reports

Transferability of biotic interactions: Temporal consistency of arctic plant-rodent relationships is poor

(2018) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Effects of Winter Climate and Intrinsic Factors on Survival of Cyclic Vole Populations in Southeastern Norway

(2018) Kaja Johnsen et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Dietary shifts influenced by livestock grazing shape the gut microbiota composition and co-occurrence networks in a local rodent species

(2018) Guoliang Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Importance of study design and robust analyses in ecology - what is the evidence for silica-vole interactions?

(2017) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Using experimentation to understand the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle in the boreal forest of North America

(2017) Charles J. Krebs et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Not only mosses: lemming winter diets as described by DNA metabarcoding

(2017) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Dampening of population cycles in voles affects small mammal community structure, decreases diversity, and increases prevalence of a zoonotic disease

(2017) Frauke Ecke et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Domestic cats and dogs create a landscape of fear for pest rodents around rural homesteads

(2017) Themb’alilahlwa A. M. Mahlaba et al.   PLoS One

Why Do the Boreal Forest Ecosystems of Northwestern Europe Differ from Those of Western North America?

(2016) Rudy Boonstra et al.   BIOSCIENCE

From individuals to population cycles: the role of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in rodent populations

(2016) Viktoriia Radchuk et al.   ECOLOGY

The correlation between coloration and exploration behaviour varies across hierarchical levels in a wild passerine bird

(2016) M. Nicolaus et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Population sex-ratio affecting behavior and physiology of overwintering bank voles ( Myodes glareolus )

(2016) Saana Sipari et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Density-dependent reproduction causes winter crashes in a common vole population

(2016) Adrien Pinot et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Negative effects of density on space use of small mammals differ with the phase of the masting-induced population cycle

(2016) Michał Bogdziewicz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Surviving winter: Food, but not habitat structure, prevents crashes in cyclic vole populations

(2016) Kaja Johnsen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Historical agricultural changes and the expansion of a water vole population in an Alpine valley

(2015) Guillaume Halliez et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Beech Fructification and Bank Vole Population Dynamics - Combined Analyses of Promoters of Human Puumala Virus Infections in Germany

(2015) Daniela Reil et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for different drivers behind long-term decline and depression of density in cyclic voles

(2015) Magnus Magnusson et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Food provisioning alters infection dynamics in populations of a wild rodent

(2015) Kristian M. Forbes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Estimating rodent losses to stored rice as a means to assess efficacy of rodent management

(2015) Steven R. Belmain et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Recovery of small rodent populations after population collapse

(2015) S. Hein et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Climate-Based Models for Pulsed Resources Improve Predictability of Consumer Population Dynamics: Outbreaks of House Mice in Forest Ecosystems

(2015) E. Penelope Holland et al.   PLoS One

Plague epizootic cycles in Central Asia

(2014) J. Reijniers et al.   Biology Letters

Coping with fast climate change in northern ecosystems: mechanisms underlying the population-level response of a specialist avian predator

(2014) Julien Terraube et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Food resources and intestinal parasites as limiting factors for boreal vole populations during winter

(2014) Kristian M. Forbes et al.   ECOLOGY

Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins

(2014) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Maternal effects and population regulation: maternal density-induced reproduction suppression impairs offspring capacity in response to immediate environment in root volesMicrotus oeconomus

(2014) Jiang-Hui Bian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Irruptive movements and breeding dispersal of snowy owls: a specialized predator exploiting a pulsed resource

(2014) J.-F. Therrien et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Quantifying the past and future impact of climate on outbreak patterns of bank voles (Myodes glareolus)

(2014) Christian Imholt et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

The Importance of Bank Vole Density and Rainy Winters in Predicting Nephropathia Epidemica Incidence in Northern Sweden

(2014) Hussein Khalil et al.   PLoS One

Predator-vole interactions in northern Europe: the role of small mustelids revised

(2014) K. Korpela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is quantity or quality of food influencing the reproduction of rice-field rats in the Philippines?

(2014) Nyo Me Htwe et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Silicon, endophytes and secondary metabolites as grass defenses against mammalian herbivores

(2014) Otso Huitu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Vole Population Dynamics During the Succession of a Commercial Forest in Northern Finland

(2013) Sakeri Savola et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Recent large-scale range expansion and outbreaks of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) in NW Spain

(2013) Juan J. Luque-Larena et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Food distribution influences social organization and population growth in a small rodent

(2013) Alice Rémy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The role of colonization in the dynamics of patchy populations of a cyclic vole species

(2013) Petter Glorvigen et al.   OECOLOGIA

New views on how population-intrinsic and community-extrinsic processes interact during the vole population cycles

(2013) Harry P. Andreassen et al.   OIKOS

Common vole (Microtus arvalis) ecology and management: implications for risk assessment of plant protection products

(2013) Jens Jacob et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Local and Regional Determinants of Colonisation-Extinction Dynamics of a Riparian Mainland-Island Root Vole Metapopulation

(2013) Petter Glorvigen et al.   PLoS One

How do variations in seasonality affect population cycles?

(2013) R. A. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Europe-Wide Dampening of Population Cycles in Keystone Herbivores

(2013) T. Cornulier et al.   SCIENCE

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework

(2013) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting grey-sided vole occurrence in northern Sweden at multiple spatial scales

(2013) Magnus Magnusson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Seasonal variation in the behaviour of a short-lived rodent

(2013) Jana A Eccard et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Ecology of a typical West African Sudanian savannah rodent community

(2012) Khalilou Bâ et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in Vole and Lemming Fluctuations in Northern Sweden 1960–2008 Revealed by Fox Dynamics

(2012) Bodil Elmhagen et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nonlinear effects of climate on boreal rodent dynamics: mild winters do not negate high-amplitude cycles

(2012) Katri Korpela et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Predation risk and food: opposite effects on overwintering survival and onset of breeding in a boreal rodent

(2012) Marko Haapakoski et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Spatio-temporal patterns of habitat use in voles and shrews modified by density, season and predators

(2012) Janne Sundell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The effect of snow cover on lemming population cycles in the Canadian High Arctic

(2012) Frédéric Bilodeau et al.   OECOLOGIA

Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics

(2012) Jennifer J. H. Reynolds et al.   OECOLOGIA

Can rodent outbreaks be driven by major climatic events? Evidence from cyclone Nargis in the Ayeyawady Delta, Myanmar

(2012) Nyo Me Htwe et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Environmental Change and Disease Dynamics: Effects of Intensive Forest Management on Puumala Hantavirus Infection in Boreal Bank Vole Populations

(2012) Liina Voutilainen et al.   PLoS One

Response of an arctic predator guild to collapsing lemming cycles

(2012) N. M. Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial and Temporal Population Dynamics of Rodents in Three Geographically Different Regions in Africa: Implication for Ecologically-Based Rodent Management†

(2011) Apia W. Massawe et al.   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Infanticide and Population Growth in the Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus): The Effect of Male Turnover and Density

(2011) Annika Opperbeck et al.   ETHOLOGY

Lemming winter habitat choice: a snow-fencing experiment

(2011) Donald G. Reid et al.   OECOLOGIA

Determinants of lemming outbreaks

(2011) Rolf A. Ims et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rats in rice: linking crop and pest models to explore management strategies

(2011) Peter R. Brown et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Loss of density-dependence and incomplete control by dominant breeders in a territorial species with density outbreaks

(2011) Jana A Eccard et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: Palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium

(2010) Kyrre Linne Kausrud et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

(2010) D. Reale et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Of lemmings and snowshoe hares: the ecology of northern Canada

(2010) C. J. Krebs   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of rodent outbreaks on food security in Asia

(2010) Grant R. Singleton et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

One for all and all for one: the energetic benefits of huddling in endotherms

(2009) Caroline Gilbert et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rodent-borne diseases and their risks for public health

(2009) Bastiaan G Meerburg et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Climate change and cyclic predator–prey population dynamics in the high Arctic

(2009) OLIVIER GILG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The sensitive hare: sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares

(2009) Michael J. Sheriff et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The Year of the Rat ends-time to fight hunger!

(2009) Bastiaan G Meerburg et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Hantavirus disease (nephropathia epidemica) in Belgium: effects of tree seed production and climate

(2008) K. TERSAGO et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Nonstationary spatio-temporal small rodent dynamics: evidence from long-term Norwegian fox bounty data

(2008) John-André Henden et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Predation on two vole species by a shared predator: antipredatory response and prey preference

(2008) Janne Sundell et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Poor condition and infection: a vicious circle in natural populations

(2008) P. M Beldomenico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Long-term fitness benefits of polyandry in a small mammal, the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus

(2008) I. Klemme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

(2008) R. E. Ley et al.   SCIENCE

Collapsing population cycles

(2008) R IMS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Reproductive Characteristics of Mastomys natalensis and Lassa Virus Prevalence in Guinea, West Africa

(2008) Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Extending Nonlinear Analysis to Short Ecological Time Series

(2007) Chih‐hao Hsieh et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Cowpox virus infection in natural field voleMicrotus agrestispopulations: significant negative impacts on survival

(2007) Sarah Burthe et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The interaction of parasites and resources cause crashes in a wild mouse population

(2007) Amy B. Pedersen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY