Population Fluctuations in Rodents

by Charles J. Krebs

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of field mice in Scotland in the spring of 2011? Population fluctuations, or outbreaks, of rodents constitute one of the classic problems of animal ecology, and in Population Fluctuations in Rodents , Charles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022601035X
• ISBN13: 9780226010359
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"