Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve

HP Andreassen, J Sundell, F Ecke, S Halle… - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
Most small rodent populations in the world have fascinating population dynamics. In the
northern hemisphere, voles and lemmings tend to show population cycles with regular …

Dispersal in house mice

MJO Pocock, HC Hauffe… - Biological Journal of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
This review evaluates direct (live-trapping) and indirect (genetic) methods to study dispersal
in wild house mice (Mus musculus) and summarizes field and experimental data to examine …

Population fluctuations and synanthropy explain transmission risk in rodent-borne zoonoses

F Ecke, BA Han, B Hörnfeldt, H Khalil… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Population fluctuations are widespread across the animal kingdom, especially in the order
Rodentia, which includes many globally important reservoir species for zoonotic pathogens …

Review of impacts of the introduced house mouse on islands in the Southern Ocean: are mice equivalent to rats?

A Angel, RM Wanless, J Cooper - Biological Invasions, 2009 - Springer
Research on the impacts of house mice Mus musculus introduced to islands is patchy
across most of the species' global range, except on islands of the Southern Ocean. Here we …

Silent killers? The widespread exposure of predatory nocturnal birds to anticoagulant rodenticides

R Cooke, P Whiteley, C Death, MA Weston… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) influence predator populations and threaten the stability of
ecosystems. Understanding the prevalence and impact of rodenticides in predators is crucial …

First occurrence of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus Schwarz & Schwarz, 1943) in the Western Mediterranean: a zooarchaeological revision of subfossil …

T Cucchi, JD Vigne, JC Auffray - Biological Journal of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
This paper provides a critical analysis of archaeological small mammal collections in the
Mediterranean area, from the Late Glacial to the first centuries AD, to validate the …

The puzzles of population cycles and outbreaks of small mammals solved?

E Korpimäki, PR Brown, J Jacob, RP Pech - BioScience, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Well-known examples of high-amplitude, large-scale fluctuations of small-mammal
populations include vole cycles in the boreal zone of Eurasia, lemming cycles in the high …

A century of conservation: the ongoing recovery of Svalbard reindeer

M Le Moullec, ÅØ Pedersen, A Stien… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Several caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) populations have experienced recent
population declines, often attributed to anthropogenic stressors such as harvesting …

Global parasite and Rattus rodent invasions: The consequences for rodent‐borne diseases

S Morand, F Bordes, HW CHEN, J Claude… - Integrative …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We summarize the current knowledge on parasitism‐related invasion processes of the
globally invasive Rattus lineages, originating from Asia, and how these invasions have …

New insight into drivers of mammalian litter size from individual‐level traits

AK Weller, OS Chapman, SL Gora, RP Guralnick… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The digitization and open availability of life history traits measured directly from individuals
provide a key means of linking organismal function to environmental and ecological contexts …