Can Changes in Social Behaviour Help to Explain House Mouse Plagues in Australia?

House mouse plagues in the grain-growing areas of eastern Australia are a graphic illustration of the failure of social mechanisms of population control that are postulated by the self-regulation hypothesis to prevent unlimited increase in numbers. Yet house mice are well known for the strength and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Oikos 1995-09, Vol.73 (3), p.429-434
Hauptverfasser:	Krebs, Charles J., Chitty, Dennis, Singleton, Grant, Boonstra, Rudy
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal and plant ecology Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Biological and medical sciences Demecology Disease outbreaks Epidemics Forum Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Infanticide Mammalia Mice Mus musculus Phenotypes Population dynamics Population growth Social behavior Social organization Vertebrata Voles
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