Researches on Population Ecology

Volume 40, 1998

Number 1,

Contents 　

Original paper

Special feature
The population ecology of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus : a preface
N. C. Stenseth & T. Saitoh 1-3

Frontiers in population ecology of microtine rodents: a pluralistic approach to the study of population ecology
N. C. Stenseth, T. Saitoh & N. G. Yoccoz 5-20 (Abstracts & Address)

The biology of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus: a review
Y. Kaneko, K. Nakata, T. Saitoh, N. C. Stenseth & O. N. Bj?rnstad 21-37(Abstracts & Address)

Social organization of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus and its demographic and genetic consequences: a review
Y. Ishibashi, T. Saitoh & M. Kawata 39-50 (Abstracts & Address)

Kin-related social organization in a winter population of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus
Y. Ishibashi, T. Saitoh, S. Abe & M. C. Yoshida 51-59 (Abstracts & Address)

The population dynamics of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus in Hokkaido, Japan
T. Saitoh, N. C. Stenseth & O. N. Bj?rnstad 61-76 (Abstracts & Address)

Mapping the regional transition to cyclicity in Clethrionomys rufocanus: spectral densities and functional data analysis
O. N. Bj?rnstad, N. C. Stenseth, T. Saitoh & O. C. Lingj>rde 77-84 (Abstracts & Address)

Seasonal forcing on the dynamics of Clethrionomys rufocanus: modeling geographic gradients in population dynamics
N. C. Stenseth, O. N. Bj?rnstad & T. Saitoh 85-95 (Abstracts & Address)

The role of vole populations in prevalence of the parasite (Echinococcus multilocularis) in foxes
T. Saitoh & K. Takahashi 97 -105 (Abstracts & Address)

The demography of Clethrionomys rufocanus: from mathematical and statistical models to further field studies
N. G. Yoccoz, K. Nakata, N. C. Stenseth & T. Saitoh 107-121 (Abstracts & Address)

Commentaries

Whither small rodent population studies?
C. J. Krebs 123-125

Rodent Fluctuations in relation to seasonality in fennoscandia and hokkaido
L. Hansson and H. Henttonen 127-129

The importance of interactions in the population ecology of the vole Chethrionomys rufocanus
R. S. Ostfeld 131-133

Winter in hokkaido
J. Gliwicz 135-136

Gradients in cyclicity, predation and microtine life history
X. lambin 137-139

Seasonality, stochasticity and population cycles
B. T. Grenfell and B. F. Finkenstadt 141-143

The vole Chethrionomys rufocanus - a modern classic?
M. Begon 145-147

Lemmings and voles: present and future
Y. Ito 149-151

So, what do we know and what do we need to know about the population ecology of the vole Clethrionomys rufocanus?
N. C. Stenseth & T. Saitoh 153-158

Review

The population biology of coevolution
J. N. Thompson 159 -166 (Abstracts & Address)

Original paper

Receptivity of female remating and sperm number in the sperm storage organ in the bean bug, Riptortus clavatus (Heteroptera: Alydidae)
T. Sakurai 167-172 (Abstracts & Address)