Crash tests for real

Robert M. May ()
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Robert M. May: University of Oxford

Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6726, 371-372

Abstract: Some populations of animals undergo dramatic cycles in which the numbers vary considerably, and the causes of such cycles have long been debated. Two long-term, large-scale experiments on red grouse in Scotland and voles in Finland conclude that the respective agents of population crashes in these cases are a parasitic nematode and predator pressure.

Date: 1999
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