Every year, many wild animals undertake long-distance migration to breed in the north,
taking advantage of seasonally high pulses in food supply, fewer parasites, and lower …

During the past two decades population cycles in voles, grouse and insects have been
fading out in Europe. Here, we discuss the cause and implication of these changes. Several …

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Wavelet analysis is a powerful tool that is already in use throughout science and
engineering. The versatility and attractiveness of the wavelet approach lie in its …

The population cycles of rodents at northern latitudes have puzzled people for centuries,,
and their impact is manifest throughout the alpine ecosystem,. Climate change is known to …

Suggestions of collapse in small herbivore cycles since the 1980s have raised concerns
about the loss of essential ecosystem functions. Whether such phenomena are general and …

Movement of organisms is one of the key mechanisms shaping biodiversity, eg the
distribution of genes, individuals and species in space and time. Recent technological and …

Ongoing climate change is thought to disrupt trophic relationships, with consequences for
complex interspecific interactions, yet the effects of climate change on species interactions …

Rodent outbreaks have been occurring in Europe for thousands of years. More than two
millennia ago, Aristotle (384-322 BC) pointed out that small rodents can appear in great …

Periodic travelling waves have been reported in a number of recent spatio-temporal field
studies of populations undergoing multi-year cycles. Mathematical modelling has a major …