Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Krebs, Charles J., author

Title Population fluctuations in rodents / Charles J. Krebs
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  599.35 Kre/Pfi  AVAILABLE
Description x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Classifying rodent population changes -- Biogeography of rodent population fluctuations -- Reproductive rates in fluctuating populations -- Mortality rates in fluctuating populations -- Immigration and emigration -- Spatial dynamics of populations -- How can we determine what drives population changes? -- The food hypothesis -- Predation as the explanation for fluctuations -- Disease as a potential factor in population changes -- Self-regulation hypotheses for fluctuations -- Multifactor explanations of fluctuations -- Models for fluctuating rodent populations -- Key studies yet to be done -- Synthesis of rodent population dynamics -- Comparative dynamics of rodents and other mammals
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-298) and index
Subject Lemmings -- Northern Hemisphere.
Population biology.
Rodent populations.
Voles -- Northern Hemisphere.
LC no. 2012037021
ISBN 9780226010359 (hbk. : alkaline paper)
(ebook)