The Effects of Social Stress on Reproduction in a Wild Deermouse Population (Peromyscus Leucopus)

• Main Author: Christiansen, Edwin C.
• Other Authors: Andrews, Richard V.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Creighton University 1973
• Subjects: Arctic; Krebs; Mullen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10504/114254

Seton (1909) stimulated wide interest in the fluctuation of population density of Arctic mammals. However, his account of suicidal migrations of lemmings was based on legend, as were the accounts of periodic erruptions of house mice, rats and voles. Since then, many investigations have presented con...