Essays about: "bank voles"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words bank voles.

1. 6. Heavy metal accumulation in voles, shrews and snails after fertilisation with pelletized and granulated municipal sewage sludge

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

   Author : Nathalie Enström; [2008]
   Keywords : heavy metal; sewage sludge; Myodes glareolus; Sorex araneus; Arion subfuscus;

   Abstract : Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om bioindikatorerna skogssork (Myodes glareolus), vanlig näbbmus (Sorex araneus) och brun skogssnigel (Arion subfuscus) ackumulerar tungmetaller efter gödsling av skog med värmebehandlat och pelleterat eller granulerat avloppsslam. Försöksområdet ligger nära Bäcksjön, Umeå, i Västerbottens län. READ MORE

3. 7. Local habitat choice of Puumala virus (PUUV) seropositive bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in Northern Sweden

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

   Author : Melanie Monroe; [2008]
   Keywords : hantavirus; puumala virus; habitat; rodents; bank voles; HFRS;

   Abstract : In humans, Puumala virus (PUUV) of the genus Hantavirus causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The primary host-reservoir in Europe is the bank vole (Myodes glareolus). To understand the persistence of PUUV among hosts we must understand the environment that the bank vole prefers, and therefore, the environment in which PUUV is harboured. READ MORE