Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective

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tion model, Keeling and Gilligan (2000) found that strong reductions in abundance of rats, which serve as the zoo- notic reservo ...

Ecologists generally prefer to work in pristine, sylvan ecosystems. However, diseases in rodent populations are probably most pr ...

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A s you are undoubtedly aware by now, Rodent Societiesis unabashedly a work of enlight- ened natural history — that is, authors ...

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