Vole Population Fluctuations: Factors That Initiate and Determine Intervals between Them in Microtus Ochrogaster
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Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (LLG) Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, 110 Newins-Ziegler Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA (MKO) Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 81820, USA (JEH) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA (BM)
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