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Rodent fluctuations in relation to seasonality in Fennoscandia and Hokkaido

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  1. Department of Conservation Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P. O. Box 7002, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden

    Lennart Hansson

  2. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Centre, P. O. Box 18, Fin-01301, Vantaa, Finland

    Heikki Henttonen

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Data onApodemus and otherClethrionomys species are available to northern populations. These data are indeed analyzed by Saitoh and Nakatsu (1997,Mammal Study 22: 27–38), Bjørnstad et al.(Ecology in press) and Saitoh et al.(Ecology in press). But their quality is not as good as theC. rufocanus data.

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Hansson, L., Henttonen, H. Rodent fluctuations in relation to seasonality in Fennoscandia and Hokkaido. Res Popul Ecol 40, 127–129 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02765228

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