Mice, rats, and other rodents threaten food production and act as reservoirs for disease
throughout the world. In Asia alone, the rice loss every year caused by rodents could feed about …

… Stenseth NC, Samia NI, Viljugrein H, Kausrud K, Begon M, et al. (2006) Plague dynamics
are driven by climate variation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103: 13110–13115. … Kausrud KL …

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 …

The bacterium Yersinia pestis causes bubonic plague. In Central Asia, where human plague
is still reported regularly, the bacterium is common in natural populations of great gerbils. …

Methods In parallel with human epidemiologic studies, visits were made to Durba in May and
October 1999 to collect specimens for virus ecostudies. The ecostudies were approved by …

… into the main factors driving rodent population dynamics (Leirs et al. 1996, 1997a). Building
on … are relevant to the present book (Leirs 1997a). The key recommendations are as follows: …

Background An outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was first observed in a gold-mining
village in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in October 1998. Methods We …

Ecology has long been troubled by the controversy over how populations are regulated 1 , 2
. Some ecologists focus on the role of environmental effects, whereas others argue that …

Since two decades, stone bunds have been installed in large areas of the Tigray Highlands,
Northern Ethiopia, to control soil erosion by water. Field studies were conducted to quantify …

In Kazakhstan and elsewhere in central Asia, the bacterium Yersinia pestis circulates in
natural populations of gerbils, which are the source of human cases of bubonic plague. Our …