Vole outbreaks in a landscape context: evidence from a six year study of Microtus arvalis

• Main Authors: P. Delattre, B. De Sousa, E. Fichet-calvet, J. P. Quéré, P. Giraudoux
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Key words; edge effects; habitat; landscape structure; multiannual fluctuation; predation; Jura; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.528.7696; http://www.ege.fcen.uba.ar/urbanizacion/files/CAVIA/SEM Delattre et al 1999.pdf

Analysis of population variations in space and time suggests that landscape may act as a substrate for several kinds of interactions: neighborhood effects, edge effects, prey-predator and parasite-host relationships, etc. Here we discuss how landscape structure and physiognomy affect vole population...