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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Partial migration is common among northern ungulates, typically involving an altitudinal movement for seasonally migratory individuals. The main driving force behind migration is the benefit of an extended period of access ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Most cervid populations in Europe and North America are managed through selective harvesting, often with age- and sex-specific quotas, with a large influence on the population growth rate. Less well understood is how ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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Many wingless ectoparasites have a limited capacity for active movement and are therefore primarily dependent on hitchhiking on their hosts for transportation. The distribution of the tick Ixodes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Ticks and tick-borne diseases are increasing in many areas of Europe and North America due to climate change, while land use and the increased abundances of large hosts play a more controversial role. The pattern ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background
Emergence of tick-borne diseases is impacting humans and livestock across the Northern Hemisphere. There are, however, large regional variations in number of cases of tick-borne diseases. Some ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Large herbivore consumption of forage is known to affect vegetation composition and thereby ecosystem functions. It is thus important to understand how diet composition arises as a mixture of individual variation in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Global environmental changes are causing Lyme disease to emerge in Europe. The life cycle of Ixodes ricinus, the tick vector of Lyme disease, involves an ontogenetic niche shift, from the larval and nymphal stages utilizing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
As global warming advances, there is a growing concern about the impact of extreme weather events on ecosystems. In the Arctic, more frequent unseasonal warm spells and rain-on- snow events in winter cause changes in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Background
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is currently regarded as a single species. However, molecular studies indicate that it can be subdivided into ecotypes, each with distinct but overlapping transmission ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
Background. The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis predicts a transition from scale-free Lévy walk (LW) to scale-specific Brownian motion (BM) as an animal moves from resource-poor towards resource-rich environment. However, ...