Identification of weather parameters related to regional population outbreak risk of common voles (Microtus arvalis) in Eastern Germany

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 551-559

  Imholt, C ^a   Esther, A ^a   Perner, J ^b   Jacob, J ^a  

^a Vertebrate Research   (Germany)

^b UAS Umwelt und Agrarstudien GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate; population dynamics; re opened burrow counts; rodent outbreak.

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROP DAMAGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES; WEATHER STATION;

GERMANY;

EID: 82955194450     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR10196     Document Type: Article

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