Are gastrointestinal parasites associated with the cyclic population dynamics of their arctic lemming hosts?

• Published in: International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
• Main Authors: Gilg, Olivier, Bollache, Loïc, Afonso, Eve, Yannic, Glenn, Schmidt, Niels Martin, Hansen, Lars Holst, Hansen, Jannik, Sittler, Benoît, Lang, Johannes, Meyer, Nicolas, Sabard, Brigitte, Gilg, Vladimir, Lang, Anita, Lebbar, Mathilde, Haukisalmi, Voitto, Henttonen, Heikki, Moreau, Jérôme
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Greenland; Hochstetter Forland; Arctic Lemming
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612653/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.06.011

Many rodents, including most populations of arctic lemmings (genus Dicrostonyx and Lemmus), have cyclic population dynamics. Among the numerous hypotheses which have been proposed and tested to explain this typical characteristic of some terrestrial vertebrate communities, trophic interactions have...