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Pierre Delattre
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Estimation of water vole abundance by using surface indices
1995
A method to estimate the abundance of the fossorial form of the water vole Arvicola terrestris scherman (Shaw, 1801) has been developed, by using surface indicies. Results are compared to the standard method of estimation using trap lines.
Alveolar echinococcosis: characteristics of a possible emergence and new perspectives in epidemiosurveillance
2001
International audience; The aim of this review is to discuss the situation of alveolar echinococcosis in France, in the light of the current knowledge on its transmission patterns in the world, especially Europe. An important risk of higher contamination of the rural environment may be suspected from newly reported cases of infected foxes or voles in several countries where the disease was not found before. Furthermore, the increase of prevalence rate in foxes in Bade-Würtemberg (Germany) and Franche-Comté (France), traditionally endemic, is also in support of this new trend. Urban foxes and the spreading of infected foxes to cities may also be the cause of the extension to urban and suburb…
Population dynamics of fossorial water vole (Arvicola terrestris scherman): a land use and landscape perspective
1997
Abstract This study investigates the effect of land use, and landscape composition and structure on the population dynamics of fossorial water vole (Arvicola terrestris scherman Shaw). Water vole populations were monitored from 1989 to 1994 in the Doubs department, France, by using index methods. Land use patterns were studied based on agriculture and forestry data from the French Ministry of Agriculture collected in 1956, 1970, 1979 and 1988. Grassland quality and landscape structure were studied based on field transects, combined with the assessment of landscape structure from maps at 1:25,000 scale. Outbreaks of water vole populations occurred as a wave, spreading from epicentres over mo…
Effect of landscape structure on common vole (Microtus arvalis) distribution and abundance at several space scales
1996
This paper aims to answer the following question: are the fluctuations of abundance of Common Vole (Microtus arvalis) specific to different types of landscapes? The research was carried out in landscapes where grassland was dominant. The sampling method was based upon a partition in both landscape types and landscape units. Tracking of vole indices was used to evaluate their relative abundance. Six landscape transects were sampled during two successive years. Results show that population variation and diffusion of demographic states are closely related to landscape types. The possible causes of this are discussed. The landscape units can be used as global variables to assess outbreak risk a…
Les "vagues voyageuses" du campagnol terrestre en Franche-Comté
2002
Dans les prairies d'altitude, les dégâts provoqués par le campagnol terrestre posent un problème économique et agricole récurrent depuis le début des années 70. Dans la lutte contre cette peste agricole, l'utilisation croissante d'un anticoagulant rodenticide, la bromadiolone, a en plus considérablement augmenté la mortalité de nombreuses espèces animales, notamment de rapaces (légalement protégés), de renards et de sangliers. Dès le début du siècle, les recherches sur les variations de populations de rongeurs ont montré que la densité de certaines espèces de petits mammifères (lemmings, campagnols, etc.) fluctue de manière plus ou moins cyclique.