416
SUBJECT INDEX
R
Rabbit, 163, 180
Rat, 174, 177
Rattus, 174, 177
Removal trapping, 273
Reproduction, components of, 291
Rhopalosiphum, 132 ff.
Root fungus, 117
Rotation, crop, 108, 110, 186
Rust, brown, 117
predators of, 178
and population cyles, 291
S
Saddle gall midge, 142, 151
Sawflies, 113, 152
Scat analysis, 340
Seasonal density change, 125
Selective advantages, 374
Selective dispersal, 312
Sensitivity of models, 244
Septoria, 141
Sex ratio and population cycles, 299
Sexual maturity a d population cycles,
Sheep, 111
Shock disease, 358
Shrew, 327
Simulations, 201
Sitobion, 132 ff.
Skull to body length, 318
Skylark, 163
Small mammals (see Microtines)
Sminthurua viridia, 131
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Social entropy, 28
Social sciences and human ecology, 10
Soil fauna, 162
Solidago virgaurea, 329
Sorex Cinema, 327
Spacing behaviour, 373
Spatial analysis, 81
Spring barley, 11 7
Spring decline in numbers, 283
Stability, 28
296
and diversity, 65
of ecosystems, 185
Staphylinidas, 157 ff., 187
Starvation in microtine cycles, 333
Stoat, 174, 177
Stress hypothesis for microtine cycles,
353 ff.
Submodels, 201
“Surplus” population, 363
Survivorship curves and population
Synaptomya, 321
Synchrony of microtine cycles, 270,272
Syngamus, 165 ff., 173
Systems analysis, 27, 74 ff.
Systems, theory, general, 77
cycles, 302
T
“Take all”, 117
TamiccSciurua hudeonicua, 327
Tenthredinidae, 152
Territoriality, 386
Thrips, 148
Thysanoptera, 148
T i p u b , 140 ff.
Total population models, 202 ff.
Turdus, 163
Tyro alba, 180
U
Undersowing, 122 ff.
Unlimited increase of microtines, 270
V
Vanellus, 163
Vertebrates, food of, 178
Vole (see also Clethrionomys, Microtua,
Vulpes (eee Fox, red)
Pitymys), 177, 163, 268
W
Weasel, 163, 174, 177, 180, 341
Weather and synchrony, 347 ff.
Weeds, 115
dispersal, 125
dormancy, 125
blossom midges, 117, 140-144
bulb fly, 140
winter, 111
Wheatear, 163
Winter breeding, 294
Wounding, 365 ff.
Wheat, 109