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
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC), Groupe de recherche en écologie arctique (GREA), Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University Aarhus -Arctic Research Centre, Chair for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Clinic for Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians & Fish, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Biogéosciences UMR 6282 Dijon (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Study supported by the French Polar Institute-IPEV Program “Interactions 1036” and analyses funded by the Fondation de Coopération Scientifique of the Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté grant “BQR” .
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Cestodes; Eimerians; Faecal prevalence; Greenland; Population dynamics; Rodent-parasites interactions; envir; geo; Arctic; Hochstetter Forland; Arctic Lemming
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.06.011; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02281730/file/S2213224419300744.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02281730

International audience 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, tro...