Small rodent population cycles and plants – after 70 years, where do we go?

Using subnivean camera traps to study Arctic small mammal community dynamics during winter

(2021) Jonas Peter Mölle et al.   Arctic Science

The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature

(2021) Terry V. Callaghan et al.   AMBIO

The Invisible Hand of the Periodic Table: How Micronutrients Shape Ecology

(2021) Michael Kaspari   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The dynamics of vegetation grazed by a food‐limited population of Soay sheep on St Kilda

(2021) M.J. Crawley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Macronutrient balancing in free‐ranging populations of moose

(2021) Annika M. Felton et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Use of NIRS in Wild Rodents’ Research: A Review of Timid Beginnings

(2021) Ladislav Čepelka et al.   Remote Sensing

Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behavior in wood bison

(2021) Lee J. Hecker et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evidence for different bottom-up mechanisms in wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) and bank vole (Myodes glareolus) population fluctuations in Southern Norway

(2020) Vidar Selås   Mammal Research

Interactions between winter and summer herbivory affect spatial and temporal plant nutrient dynamics in tundra grassland communities

(2020) Matteo Petit Bon et al.   OIKOS

Ecological specialization and niche overlap of subterranean rodents inferred from DNA metabarcoding diet analysis

(2020) Carla Martins Lopes et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

One leaf for all: Chemical traits of single leaves measured at the leaf surface using near‐infrared reflectance spectroscopy

(2020) Matteo Petit Bon et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Timing of dietary switching by savannah elephants in relation to crop consumption

(2020) Susanne Marieke Vogel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2020) Harry P. Andreassen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Advances in population ecology and species interactions in mammals

(2019) Douglas A Kelt et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

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

Flexibility in a changing arctic food web: Can rough‐legged buzzards cope with changing small rodent communities?

(2019) Ivan A. Fufachev et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Patterns of vole gnawing on saplings in managed clearings in Central European forests

(2018) Jarmila Krojerová-Prokešová et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Population cycles: generalities, exceptions and remaining mysteries

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

Population-level manipulations of field vole densities induce subsequent changes in plant quality but no impacts on vole demography

(2018) Lise Ruffino et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Review: Using physiologically based models to predict population responses to phytochemicals by wild vertebrate herbivores

(2018) J. S. Forbey et al.   Animal

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

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

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

Weather-driven change in primary productivity explains variation in the amplitude of two herbivore population cycles in a boreal system

(2017) Joshua H. Schmidt et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Different population responses of three sympatric rodent species to acorn masting—the role of tannin tolerance

(2017) Rokuya Onodera et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Large manipulative experiments reveal complex effects of food supplementation on population dynamics of Brandt’s voles

(2017) Baofa Yin et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Climate and herbivore influence on Vaccinium myrtillus over the last 40 years in northwest Lapland, Finland

(2017) Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe et al.   Ecosphere

Main determinants of rodent population fluctuations in managed Central European temperate lowland forests

(2017) Jan Šipoš et al.   Mammal Research

Arctic greening from warming promotes declines in caribou populations

(2017) Per Fauchald et al.   Science Advances

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

(2016) Rudy Boonstra et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Factors influencing vole bark damage intensity in managed mountain-forest plantations of Central Europe

(2016) Josef Suchomel et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The ecology of herbivore-induced silicon defences in grasses

(2016) Susan E. Hartley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of summer and winter warming on body mass explain population dynamics in a food-limited Arctic herbivore

(2016) Steve D. Albon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Silicon-based plant defences, tooth wear and voles

(2016) Ivan Calandra et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Long-term population patterns of rodents and associated damage in German forestry

(2016) Christian Imholt et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Rodent food quality and its relation to crops and other environmental and population parameters in an agricultural landscape

(2016) Janova Eva et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Does intraspecific competition promote variation? A test via synthesis

(2016) Andrew W. Jones 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

Predator-rodent-plant interactions along a coast-inland gradient in Fennoscandian tundra

(2015) Lise Ruffino et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Combining near infrared spectra of feces and geostatistics to generate forage nutritional quality maps across landscapes

(2015) Pierre-Olivier Jean et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Landscape-scale analysis of nutritional traits of New Zealand tree foliage using near-infrared spectroscopy

(2015) Hannah R. Windley et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Highly Overlapping Winter Diet in Two Sympatric Lemming Species Revealed by DNA Metabarcoding

(2015) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   PLoS One

Fertilisation, cattle grazing and voles: collapse of meadow vole populations in young forests?

(2015) Thomas P. Sullivan et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Lemming–Food Plant Interactions, Density Effects, and Cyclic Dynamics on the Siberian Tundra

(2014) Sam Erlinge et al.   ARCTIC

Spatial variation in vegetation damage relative to primary productivity, small rodent abundance and predation

(2014) Katrine S. Hoset et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2014) Kristian M. Forbes et al.   ECOLOGY

A new method for assessing food quality in common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations

(2014) Eva Janova et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Sources of variation in small rodent trophic niche: new insights from DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis

(2014) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES

Rodent population dynamics affect seedling recruitment in alpine habitats

(2014) Kristin O. Nystuen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The dilemma of foraging herbivores: dealing with food and fear

(2014) Clare McArthur et al.   OECOLOGIA

Diet Quality Limits Summer Growth of Field Vole Populations

(2014) Kristian M. Forbes et al.   PLoS One

Does lemming winter grazing impact vegetation in the Canadian Arctic?

(2014) Frédéric Bilodeau et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Intraspecific competition reduces niche width in experimental populations

(2014) Christine E. Parent et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Determination of plant silicon content with near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

(2014) Adriaan Smis et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The interplay between seasonality and density: consequences for female breeding decisions in a small cyclic herbivore

(2014) Adrien Pinot et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Vole Damage to Woody Plants Reflects Cumulative Rather than Peak Herbivory Pressure

(2013) Sonja Gilbert et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Population Cycles in Forest Lepidoptera Revisited

(2013) Judith H. Myers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Snow evens fragmentation effects and food determines overwintering success in ground-dwelling voles

(2013) Marko Haapakoski et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Complementary impacts of small rodents and semi-domesticated ungulates limit tall shrub expansion in the tundra

(2013) Virve T. Ravolainen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Translating nutritional ecology from the laboratory to the field: milestones in linking plant chemistry to population regulation in mammalian browsers

(2013) Jane L. DeGabriel 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

Long-term monitoring at multiple trophic levels suggests heterogeneity in responses to climate change in the Canadian Arctic tundra

(2013) G. Gauthier et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Arctic Small Rodents Have Diverse Diets and Flexible Food Selection

(2013) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   PLoS One

Europe-Wide Dampening of Population Cycles in Keystone Herbivores

(2013) T. Cornulier et al.   SCIENCE

Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

(2013) L. Xu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Population fluctuations of moths and small rodents in relation to plant reproduction indices in southern Norway

(2013) Vidar Selås et al.   Ecosphere

Increasing vole numbers cause more lethal damage to saplings in tree monocultures than in mixed stands

(2012) Sonja Gilbert et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

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

More than herbivory: levels of silica-based defences in grasses vary with plant species, genotype and location

(2012) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   OIKOS

A comparison of the dynamical impact of seasonal mechanisms in a herbivore–plant defence system

(2012) Jennifer J. H. Reynolds et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Rodent Damage to Natural and Replanted Mountain Forest Regeneration

(2012) Marta Heroldová et al.   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Effects of density dependence on diet composition of North American elk Cervus elaphus and mule deer Odocoileus hemionus: an experimental manipulation

(2012) Kelley M. Stewart et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Vole and lemming activity observed from space

(2012) Johan Olofsson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Digestibility and N-concentration of bilberry shoots in relation to berry production and N-fertilization

(2011) Vidar Selås et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Rapid, landscape scale responses in riparian tundra vegetation to exclusion of small and large mammalian herbivores

(2011) Virve Tuulia Ravolainen et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Exclusion of brown lemmings reduces vascular plant cover and biomass in Arctic coastal tundra: resampling of a 50 + year herbivore exclosure experiment near Barrow, Alaska

(2011) D R Johnson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Do changes in berry crops drive population fluctuations in small rodents in the southwestern Yukon?

(2010) Charles J. Krebs et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Response of two prairie forbs to repeated vole herbivory

(2010) Amy T. Sullivan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Vulnerability of black grouse hens to goshawk predation: result of food supply or predation facilitation?

(2010) Risto Tornberg et al.   OECOLOGIA

Of lemmings and snowshoe hares: the ecology of northern Canada

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

The effects of plant defensive chemistry on nutrient availability predict reproductive success in a mammal

(2009) Jane L. DeGabriel et al.   ECOLOGY

Density-dependent vole damage in silviculture and associated economic losses at a nationwide scale

(2009) Otso Huitu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

(2009) Eeva M Soininen et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Nutrition, ecology and nutritional ecology: toward an integrated framework

(2009) David Raubenheimer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of Simulated Herbivory on Defensive Compounds in Forage Plants of Norwegian Alpine Rangelands

(2009) Eli R. Saetnan et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Effect of Food Availability on Immune Function of Gray Red-Backed Voles (Myodes rufocanus) Exposed to Low Temperature and Short Photoperiod

(2009) Kaori Kusumoto   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Studies on the ecology of field mice and voles (Apodemus sylvaticus, Clethrionomys glareolus and Microtus agrestis) in Houghall Wood, Durham

(2009) K. R. Ashby   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

New perspectives for estimating body condition from mass/length data: the scaled mass index as an alternative method

(2009) Jordi Peig et al.   OIKOS

Cyclic hantavirus epidemics in humans — Predicted by rodent host dynamics

(2009) Eva R. Kallio et al.   Epidemics

Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?

(2008) F.P Massey et al.   Biology Letters

Linking climate change to lemming cycles

(2008) Kyrre L. Kausrud et al.   NATURE

Reversal of fortune: plant suppression and recovery after vole herbivory

(2008) Henry F. Howe   OECOLOGIA

Consumption of grass endophytes alters the ultraviolet spectrum of vole urine

(2008) Otso Huitu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Voles on small islands: effects of food limitation and alien predation

(2008) Karen Fey et al.   OECOLOGIA

Collapsing population cycles

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