Essays about: "Myodes glareolus"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Myodes glareolus.
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1. Personality, Movement, andInfection in a Wild Population of Bank Voles (Myodes glareolus)
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesAbstract : Personality affects many life decisions and potentially has major consequences on ecological and evolutionary processes. Personality-dependent local movement affects interactions between individuals, resource acquisition, and the risk of encountering predators and pathogens. READ MORE
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2. Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu latu in rodents from two areas with varying wild ungulate densities in Southern Sweden
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesAbstract : On a global scale, zoonotic vector-borne diseases pose an increasing threat towards human health. In Europe, the haemotophagous ectoparasite sheep tick (Ixodes ricinus) acts as a pathogen vector for diseases like tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease with increasing annual incidences during the last decades. READ MORE
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3. Prevalence of Puumala virus (PUUV) in bank voles (Myodes glareolus) after a major boreal forest fire
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesAbstract : Our knowledge on the impact of forest fires on the prevalence (proportion of infected individuals in a population) and dynamics of zoonotic pathogens is largely limited. A large forest fire in late 2006 at Bodträskfors in northern Sweden provided a unique opportunity to investigate the effect of habitat change on disease prevalence. READ MORE
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4. Abundance and diversity of small mammals in Swedish beaver systems
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and AssessmentAbstract : Through their ecosystem engineering activities, beavers (Castor fiber ) create ponds and riparian zones littered with deadwood, providing hetero- geneous micro-habitats for a variety of small mammal species. In this study small mammals were snap-trapped in nine beaver systems and four reference wetland systems that were not created by beavers in southern and central Sweden to compare abundance and diversity of voles, shrews and mice. READ MORE
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5. Grey-sided vole and bank vole abundance in old-growth forest patches of different size and connectivity
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesAbstract : Vole populations in northern Scandinavia vary in cycles with peaks every third or fourth year as described by the National Environmental Monitoring Programme of small mammals (NEMP). Some vole species have declined in population numbers since the NEMP started in 1971, especially the grey-sided vole (Myodes rufocanus) which is nearly extinct in the forested region. READ MORE
