Tracking past and ongoing lemming cycles on the Eurasian tundra

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Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-229

  Danell, Kjell ^a   Erlinge, Sam ^b   Högstedt, Göran ^c   Hasselquist, Dennis ^b   Olofsson, Eva Britt ^a   Seldal, Tarald ^d   Svensson, Mikael ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Animal Ecology ^*  (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; POPULATION ECOLOGY; TRACKING;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN;

MAMMALIA; SALIX;

EID: 0032990778     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank Peter Frodin and Patrie Nilsson for field assistance, and Ann Salomonson for technical assistance in the laboratory, Karl Fredga for allowing us to use his map, the Swedish Natural Research Council (grants to K. Danell, S. Erlinge and K. Fredga) and the Research Council of Norway (grants to G. Högstedt), and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat for organizing the Swedish-Russian Tundra Ecology -94 Expedition.