Professor Xavier Lambin
Chair in Zoology
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+44 (0)1224 273259
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x.lambin@abdn.ac.uk
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Room 408 Zoology building
Tillydrone Avenue
Aberdeen AB24 2TZ
Scotland UK
Professor of Ecology
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Research Interests
Current research is centred on
The roles of dispersal, predation, herbivory and pathogens on the spatial and temporal dynamics of cyclic field vole populations in an highly fragmented environment. We tested the hypotheses that the 3-4 year cycles displayed by field vole populations are caused by the delayed numerical response of a specialist predator and that trophic interactions together with the movements of voles and weasels are also responsible for the spatial dynamics of cyclic field vole populations. We use field techniques, modelling as well studies of the role of pathogens and plant herbivore interactions. The behavioural and demographic and genetic processes in small semi-isolated populations where localised extinction and dispersal are common place. We are testing the assumptions and predictions from metapopulation theory in networks of fragmented water vole. We also study the metapopulation dynamics of eco-parasites that exploit host who themselves have a metapopulation structure. Adaptive management for mitigating the impact of an invasive predators. We aim to understand the processes that may lead to compensation in controlled populations. Predation by American mink an introduced predator is the main cause of the catastrophic decline of water vole populations. Our work on this predator prey interactions is of high relevance to conservation and we implement our findings into a large scale community-based conservation program. We are therefore able to work at the very large spatial scale that is relevant and to rigorously test the effectiveness of conservation. The project is closely integrated with conservation efforts http://www.watervolescotland.org/ Dynamical feedback between plants and herbivores through silica induction Food quality is not thought to respond to herbivory in a way which could lead to cycles, but we have discovered a novel way in which changes in plant quality could cause cycles in herbivore populations. Periods of sustained heavy grazing lead to an increase in the levels of silica in grasses, so herbivores subsequently experience reduced availability of nutrients. This reduces their growth and reproductive rate and hence slows down the rate of population growth in the following year. Eventually populations fall and herbivores are once again able to access nutrients in the grasses and their growth and reproduction increase again. Kinship-induced instability in population dynamics Testing the hypothesis that cooperation between members of kin groups creates time lags in the recruitment of red grouse to the territorial population, and so causes population cycles. Such kin groups occur among territorial cocks due to philopatric recruitment. Similar process occurs with matrilines in small mammals
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Disease dynamics in host population dynamics and the role of (single and multiple) host dynamics in (single and multiple) disease dynamics? Infected hosts harbour communities of pathogens interacting with each other, through impact on immune system and host condition. We study the impact that pathogens may have singly or jointly on host demographic traits and dynamics. We characterise the dynamics of Susceptible Infected and Recovered hosts in natural populations of field voles and explore the joint impact of demographic and seasonal effects in determining the impact of pathogens on host dynamics, including the phenomenon of seasonal resonance |
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Collaborations
External
Prof Rolf A Ims and Nigel Yoccoz, University of Tromso Norway. long term collaborators, including co-PI on Biodiversa ECOCYCLES grant
Prof Sue Hartley, University of Sussex (co-PI on NERc grant on silica induction)
Prof Mike Begon, university of Liverpool (co-I on NERC and Welcome grants investigating disease dynamics in field voles)
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Research Grants
2007-2008 NERC Reproductive Strategies in a cyclic environment. with Dr Alex Millon (PDRA) and Steve Petty
Life history strategies of organisms living in cyclic environment may include phenotypic plasticity in some traits such as age of first reproduction or reproductive investment, so as to allow them to deal with changing prey availability. Plasticity thus has the potential to buffer partially or completely the impact of changes in prey abundance. We study the tawny owl population of Kielder Forest to better understand the consequences of variation in prey densities over individual lifetimes.
- First, we consider whether environmental conditions experienced at birth by owlets remain detectable throughout their entire lifetime (cohort effect).
- Second, we measure the covariation between different life-history traits as this pattern greatly influences population dynamics.
- Third, we determine whether phenotypically different individuals adopt different reproductive strategies to cope with vole cyclicity, a source of variation that is at least partly predictable in time.
2007-2009 Overcoming the compensatory response of an invasive predator NERC partnership grant (PDRA Dr Matt Oliver)
While spatial population dynamics have been widely considered within conservation biology, they are only rarely applied for optimisation of control strategies for invasive species. Ecological knowledge of animal dispersal, functional responses of predators and of indirect interactions between species can improve the effectiveness of control strategies. This is best achieved using the "active adaptive management" approach, whereby models of a system are continuously developed with empirical data and these improved models are used for generating more useful predictions, which are tested against the outcome of management practice.
In this project, we implement an integrated programme between ecologists, policy makers, conservationists and an established working coalition of practitioners to devise a science-based management strategy for protecting endangered water vole populations in the Cairngorms National Park from the impact of an invasive predator, the American mink. Simultaneously, the project will challenge and develop important ecological concepts from predator prey theory.
2007-2009 The Tubney Charitable Trust. The Cairngorms Water vole conservation project. With Cairngorms National Park authority and SNH. (Project Manager Dr Rosalyn Bryce, Project Officers: Llinos Davies, Helen Gray) www.watervolescotland.org
The principal objective of this project is to secure the Cairngorms National Park (CNP) as a key water vole area, through coordinating and stepping-up mink control by the local community, raising awareness and identifying further 'key areas' for water voles, in previously un-surveyed areas across the Cairngorms region. The area still holds substantial water vole populations and its geography, low prey biomass and high game-keeper density make the area a defensible stronghold. The project's primary aim is to conserve as yet relatively unaffected populations rather than to restore populations that have already been decimated by mink predation.
Our aims are achieved through a cooperative community-based project, which will use the expertise and experience of the existing skilled workforce, such as gamekeepers and fishing ghillies, to deliver maximum conservation benefit. It is also vital that the wider community – including local residents and National Park visitors – understand and support the action. Therefore, education is a crucial element of the program, both for the general public and the active participants. The project has the support of several stakeholders, including landowners, conservation bodies and fisheries boards, and will forge links between research institutions and local communities and organisations. The participatory and community-based nature of the project allows the conservation practices and therefore the benefits, to be sustainable in the long term, a requisite for such a program in a non-enclosed area.
2005-2008 SNH-Talisman Energy, Mammal_Trust UK Community based water vole conservation project officer Jamie Urquhart)
This project aims to consolidate the efforts made to secure water vole populations in NE Scotland, where nationally significant populations remain, by expanding on progress made in years 1& 2 of the North East Scotland LBAP Community based water vole conservation project. A water vole conservation officer, employed since May 2006, has continued to apply an approach that has proved successful in the first two years. This consists of
- identifying 'key areas' for water voles,
- taking action and encouraging others to take action, to secure known populations in subcatchments of the Rivers Dee and Ythan, allowing populations to expand to adjacent areas and i
- raising awareness of water vole conservation issues.
The project has expanded its range over the past year due to strong community support and high levels of community involvement in these key areas. This community involvement is regarded key to ensuring the long term viability of this project. By placing actions to conserve water vole population in the hands of local communities, we can provide conditions that allow increased connectivity of vole populations and expansion of existing conservation efforts with the supervision and guidance provided by the conservation officer.
2004-2007 The Wellcome Trust The dynamics of, and risks posed by, concomitant zoonotic infections in their wildlife reservoirs with Profs Mike Begon, Malcolm Bennet, Steve Patterson , PDRA Dr Sandra Telfer Dr Sarah Burthe
The core aim of this research is to further understanding of the dynamics of zoonotic infection within wildlife reservoirs. We achieve this aim by collecting extensive data from replicate cyclic rodent populations, Crucially, the project examines not a single parasite but several. Thus, by investigating pathogens with a range of known biologies, we test the hypothesis that detectable differences in dynamics between pathogens can be related to differences in the pathogens' ecologies. This, in turn, allows the zoonotic risk posed by contrasting types of pathogen to be assessed, along with the sensitivity of risk to key parameters. It will also be possible to address fundamental questions on interactions amongst pathogens under natural conditions. Hence, we will test the hypothesis thatthe dynamics of any pathogen – and the consequences of those dynamics, for example for zoonotic risk – depend not only on its interactions with its host but also on those with other, coexisting pathogens. Finally, the fundamental but essentially unanswered question of the role played by parasites (especially microparasites) in the dynamics of natural vertebrate populations will be addressed.
2003-2007 UK-POPNET/NERC Predicting Population Dynamics in a Changing Environment with Prof W Sutherland, Prof T Benton, Prof D Elston , PDRA Thomas Cornulier
We will develop a hierarchy of linked models, starting with behavioural response to resource availability, feeding into the changes in demographic parameters and population size and then to population dynamics. As we model mechanism explicitly, we will be able to predict the population response to environments that change, where the drivers of environmental change may be climate or socio-economic. This suite of models will be parameterised simultaneously through application of novel computer intensive methods for statistical inference that make it possible to combine a range of data of different type and collected at different temporal and spatial scales and that provide appropriate measures of uncertainty at all levels of the hierarchy. We will apply this approach to the response of farmland birds to changing agricultural practice, hence providing both methodological development and policy-relevant novel science.
2003-2006 The Wellcome Trust. Predicting Andes Hanta virus risk to human on southern Chile using parameterised demographic model of rodent reservoir populations and spatio-temporal mapping of seed abundance. with Roberto Murua
The Andes Hanta Virus is an endemic zoonotic disease widespread throughout southern areas of Chile and Argentina. Transmission to humans is by aerosol creating an infection risk associated with outdoor activities in areas where rodents are abundant. The disease causes an acute cardiopulmonary syndrome in humans. Little is known about disease dynamics in rodent population and epidemiological studies are hampered by the low prevalence in rodent population. The virus is amplified by the rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus (OL), the major reservoir. Populations of OL fluctuate widely with seed availability, with huge outbreaks in southern Chile following flowering and seed masting events by Chilean bamboo. Masting by bamboo is synchronized locally but areas hundred kilometres or so apart may experience masting in different years. Ecological studies have shown that the dynamics of OL is of first order and strongly influenced by seed production by both canopy trees, many themselves influence by climatic variables, and bamboo.
Information on the locally synchronized bamboo flowering events, together with information on seed production by canopy trees would predict large outbreaks. The dramatic outbreak of OL is an important public health concern owing to the associated risk human infection with Andes hantavirus. Rodent enter human habitations and contact with human is enhanced the disease has a considerable economic impact on tourism, forestry and other outdoors activities in Chile.
The aim of this project is to predict rodent host dynamics based on spatially and temporally varying patterns of seed production of canopy trees, cycles of bamboo flowering and climate variation in the risk of Andes hantavirus infection to humans, also to detect possible mechanism that maybe responsible for indirect transmission of the disease in the environment.
2003-2006 The Wellcome Trust. Transmission dynamics and diversity of Anaplasma phagocytophila in a natural multi-host/multi-vector system in the UK. with Richard Birtles, Kevin Bown, Nick Ogden
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Teaching Responsibilities
Contributor to MREs in Ecology and Sustainability course Zo5301 Population Ecology
Course organiser for 4th year course Zo4527 in Wildlife conservation and management concepts and practice
Contributor to 3rd year course Zo3303 in Animal Population Ecology
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External Responsibilities
Prof Lambin is currently:
An editor of Population Ecology
An editor of Acta Oecologia
A member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Game Conservancy's Upland Predation Experiment http://www.game-conservancy.org.uk/
Member of the species and habitats committee of North East Scotland Biodiversity group
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Present graduate students and researchers
Edoardo Tedesco Causes and consequences of dispersal in water vole metapopulations (2005-08. Funded by The College of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Aberdeen
Nacho Villar Effects of grazing and predation on upland biodiversity Funded by The Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (2005-08) Co-supervised by Steve Redpath (CEH Banchory)
Anna Renwick Ecosystem processes and thresholds for persistence in farmland landscapes (2005-08) Funded by NERC
Anna Evely Evaluating the effectiveness of community participation in a mink eradication scheme (2006-2009) Funded by The College of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Aberdeen. Co-supervised by Dr Michelle Pinard Dr Ioan Fazey (Univ Aberyswyth)
Dr Ros Bryce Project manager
Dr Alex Millon NERC PDRA
Dr Matt Oliver NERC PDRA
Dr Fergus Massey NERC PDRA (Oct 2008)
Llinos Davies Cairngorm water vole conservation officer
Helne Gray Cairngorm water vole conservation officer
Jamie Urquhart NE Scotland water vole conservation officer
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Jobs and PhD opportunities in population ecology
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Past PhD Students and postdoctoral fellows
Ros Bryce Consequences of impending species loss: Water voles as ecosystem engineers. Funded by NERC (2002-05). Co-supervised by Dr Phil Hulme (CEH Banchory). Presently project manager in my research group
Ali Shati Thresholds for parasite persistence in metapopulations Funded by Saudi government (2005-07). Co-supervised by Dr Stuart Piertney School of Biological Sciences University of Aberdeen. Lecturer in Saudi
Matthew Smith (Mustard) Modelling periodic travelling waves in cyclic populations (2004-2007) Funded by NERC. Co-supervised by Jonathan Sherratt Heriot-Watt. researcher with Microsoft ResearchWendy Stewart 1997 Microsattelites and genetic structure in water voles. MSc Cosupervised by John Dallas and Stuart Piertney
Jason Matthiopoulos 1998 Modelling the kinship hypothesis for red grouse. Funded by Aberdeen University. Co-supervised by Robert Moss Moss (CEH). Presently Senior Research Fellow, Sea Mammal Reserch Institute, SMRU Univ St Andrews
Andrew MacColl 1998 factors Affecting recruitment in Red Grouse Funded by Aberdeen University. Co-supervised by Robert Moss Moss (CEH). Presently NERC Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow at Nothingham University
James MacKinnon 1998 patial synchrony in cyclic field vole populations. Funded by NERC. Co-supervised by Tom Sherratt, Chris J Thomas, Steve Petty . Presently Conservationist Madagascar
Anuar Shahrul 1998 Spacing pattern and mating system in water voles (Arvicola terrestris) in north-east Scotland Funded by Univ Sains Malaysia. presently Associate Professor at Univ Sains Malaysia
Sandra Telfer 2000 Dispersal and metapopulation dynamics in water vole populations. Funded by NERC. Presently Postdoctoral Research at the Centre for compartive Infectious disease University of Lverpool
Isla M Graham 2001 Weasels And Vole Cycles: An Experimental Test Of The Specialist Predator Hypothesis 2001 Funded by NERC. Co-supervised by Jonathan Humphreys (Forest Research). Presently Postdoctoral Research at the Gatty Laboratory researching seal predation on salmon at University of St Andrews
Arjun Amar 2001 Determining The Cause Of The Hen Harrier Decline On Orkney. Funded by Aberdeen Research Consortium. Co-supervised by Steve Redpath (CEH), Ron Summers (RSPB). currently Researcher with RSPB Scotland
Ann Humble 2002 Habitat selection in short eared owls. MPhil Co-supervised by Martyn Gorman Dick Birnie, Richard Aspinal. Presently with CCW Wales
John Duban 2002 Bayesian methods for marine mammal population assessment. Funded by Carnegie trust. Co-supervised by Paul Thompson (Abz), David Elston (BIOSS). Presently NOAA Fellow, Seattle
Kerry Lock 2003 Recruitment in declining grouse populations Funded by NERC. Co-supervised by Steve Redpath (CEH), Stuart Piertney (Abz). Presently Reserve Manager English Nature
Torbjorn Ergon 2003 Life history variation in cyclic field vole populations. Funded by Norwegian Science foundation University of Oslo Co-supervised by Nils C Stenseth (Oslo). currently Researcher at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary synthesis.
Sarah Burthe 2004 Cowpox dynamics in cyclicfield vole population Funded by NERC University of Liverpool. Co-supervised by Mike Begon and Malcolm Bennet. NERC PDRA at Liverpool. Presently staff at CEH Bush
Stijn Bierman 2004 Spatio temporal models in ecology funded by BioSS. Co-supervised by David Elston, Ian Wilson (Stats). presently Statistician with BioSS
Sevvandy Jayakodi 2005 Habitat selection in red deer hinds funded by Commonwealth Co-supervised by Angela Sibbald, Ian Gordon (MLURI). presently lecturer at Wayamba University
Michelle Sims 2006 Models of animal populations BIOSS(APERU) Co-supervised by David Elston, Ian Wilson (Stats). NOAA fellow, North Carolina
Dr Diane Fisher
Dr Juan Luque Larena
Dr Jonathan Fairbairn
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Selected Publications
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75. Stuart B. Piertney, Xavier Lambin, Andrew D. C. Maccoll, Kerry Lock, Philip J. Bacon, John F. Dallas, Fiona Leckie, Francois Mougeot, Paul A. Racey, Steve Redpath, Robert Moss (2008) Temporal changes in kin structure through a population cycle in a territorial bird, the red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus Molecular Ecology 17 (10) , 2544–2551 doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03778.x
74. Jayakody S, AM. Sibbald, IJ.Gordon, X Lambin (2008) Red deer vigilance behaviour differs with habitat and human disturbance type. Wildlife Biology 14:81-91
73. BurtheS, Telfer S , Begon M, Bennett M, Smith A, and X Lambin (2008) Cowpox virus infection in natural field vole, Microtus agrestis, populations: significant negative impacts on survival Journal of Animal Ecology;77 (1):110-9 18177331
72. Burthe S.; M. Bennett, A. Kipar, X. Lambin, A. Smith, S. Telfer1 and M. Begon (2007) Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium microti) in wild field vole populations. Parasitology 6; :1-9 18005472
71. Bown, K.J., Lambin, X., Ogden, N.H., Petrovec, M., Shaw, S.E., Woldehiwet, Z., & Birtles, R.J. (2007) High-resolution genetic fingerprinting of European strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum by use of multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 45: 1771-1776.
70. Smith, MJ, White A, Sherratt JA, Telfer S, Begon M, Lambin X (2007) Disease effects on reproduction can cause population cycles in seasonal environments. Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 378–389
69. Telfer, S., Begon, M., Bennett, M., Bown, K., Burthe, S., Lambin, X., Telford, G. & Birtles, R. (2007) Contrasting Dynamics of Bartonella spp. in Cyclic Field Vole populations: the Impact of Vector and Host Dynamics. Parasitology 134: 413-425
68. Brandt M. J., Lambin X. (2007) Movement patterns of a specialist predator, the weasel Mustela nivalis exploiting asynchronous cyclic field vole Microtus agrestis populations Acta Theriologica 52 (1): (1): 13-25
67. Bown, K., Begon, M., Bennett, M., Birtles, R., Burthe, S., Lambin, X., Telfer, S., Woldehiwet, Z. & Ogden, N. (2006) Sympatric Ixodes trianguliceps and Ixodes ricinus feeding on field voles (Microtus agrestis): potential for increased risk of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the UK. VectorBorne and Zoonotic Disease 6:404-410
66. Burthe, S., Telfer, S., Lambin, X., Bennett, M., Carslake, D., Smith, A., & Begon, M. (2006) Cowpox virus infection agrestis populations: delayed density dependence and individual risk. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 1416-1425.
65. Bierman SM, Fairbairn JP, Petty SJ, Elston DA, Tidhar D and, X Lambin (2006) Changes over time in the spatiotemporal dynamics of cyclic populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis L.) American Naturalist 167 (4): 583-590
64. Smith, M.J., White, A., Lambin, X., Sherratt, J.A., & Begon, M. (2006) Delayed density-dependent season length alone can lead to rodent population cycles. American Naturalist, 167, 695-704.
63. Lambin X, BretagnolleV and NG Yoccoz (2006) Vole population cycles in northern and southern Europe: is there a need for different explanations for single pattern? Journal of Animal Ecology 75 (2): 340-349
62. Aars, J, Dallas JF, Piertney SB, MarshallF, GowJL, Telfer S and X Lambin (2006) Widespread gene flow and high genetic variability in populations of water voles Arvicola terrestris in patchy habitats Molecular Ecology 165:1455-1466
61. Piertney, SB Wendy A. Stewart, X Lambin S Telfer, J Aars and J F. Dallas. (2005) Phylogeographic structure and post-glacial evolutionary history of water voles (Arvicola terrestris) in the United Kingdom. Molecular Ecology 14(5):1435-1444
60. Brandt MJ and Lambin X. (2005) Activity patterns of common weasels (Mustela nivalis vulgaris) inhabiting clear cuts in Kielder Forest, Northern England. Acta Theriologica 50 (1) 67-80
59. CavanaghR, Lambin X, ErgonT, Bennett M, Graham IM, van Soolingen D and M Begon(2004) Disease dynamics in cyclic populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis): cowpox virus and vole tuberculosis (Mycobacterium microti). Proceedings of Royal Society, Series B271, 859–867
58. Ergon T, J R. Speakman, M. Scantlebury, R. Cavanagh and X Lambin (2004) Body size and energy expenditure during winter: Why are voles smaller in declining populations? American Naturalist 163(3), 442-457
57. Lambin, X. & Graham, I.M. (2003) Testing the specialist predator hypothesis for vole cycles. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 493
56. Speakman, J. R. ; T. Ergon, R. Cavanagh, K. Reid, D. M. Scantlebury, and X. Lambin (2003) Resting and daily energy expenditures of free-living field voles are positively correlated but reflect extrinsic rather than intrinsic effects Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100, 14057-14062
55. Sherratt JA, Lambin X, Sherratt TN (2003) The effects of the size and shape of landscape features on the formation of travelling waves in cyclic populations. American Naturalist 162, 503-513
54. Matthiopoulos, J., Moss, R., Mougeot, F., Lambin, X., & Redpath, S.M. (2003) Territorial behaviour and population dynamics in red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus. II. Population models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 72, 1083-1096.
53. Petty, S. J., Anderson, D. I. K., Davison, M., Little, B., Sherratt, T. N.,Thomas, C. J. & Lambin, X. (2003). The decline of common kestrels Falco tinnunculus in a forested area of northern England: the role of predation by northern goshawks Accipiter gentilis. Ibis, 145 (3), 472-483.
52. Telfer, S., Piertney, S.B., Dallas, J.F., Stewart, W.A., Marshall, F., Gow, J., & Lambin, X. (2003) Parentage assignment reveals widespread and large-scale dispersal in water voles. Molecular Ecology, 12, 1939-951.
51. Telfer S, J. F. Dallas, J. Aars, S. B. Piertney, W. A. Stewart and X. Lambin (2003) Population structure and genetic composition of fossorial water voles Arvicola terrestris on Scottish islands. Journal of Zoology (London) 259, 23-29.
50. Graham, I.M. & Lambin, X. (2002) The impact of weasel predation on cyclic field vole survival: the specialist predator hypothesis contradicted. Journal of Animal Ecology. 71(6), 946-957 Paper reviewed in TREE)
49. Sherratt JA, Lambin X, Thomas CJ Sherrat TN (2002) Generation of periodic waves by landscape features in cyclic predator prey systems. Proceedings of Royal Society, Series B 269, 327-334
48. Cavanagh R, Begon M, Bennett M, Ergon T, Graham IM, de Haas PEW, Hart CA, Koedam M, Kremer K, Lambin X, Roholl P and D van Soolingen. (2002) Mycobacterium microti infection (vole tuberculosis) in wild rodent populations: a potential reservoir for pulmonary tuberculosis in humans.Journal of Clinical Microbiology 40, 3281-3285
47. Matthiopoulos J., Moss R, and X Lambin (2002) The kin facilitation hypothesis for red grouse population cycles: territorial dynamics of the family cluster. Ecological Modelling 147, 291-307
46. Ergon T, Lambin X & Stenseth NC (2001) Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond directly to environmental change. Nature 411, 1043-1045
45. Lambin X., Yoccoz NG (2001) Adaptive precocial reproduction in voles: reproductive costs and multivoltine life history strategies in seasonal environments Journal of Animal Ecology 70, 191-200
44. Ergon, T., J. L. MacKinnon, N. C. Stenseth, R. Boonstra, and X. Lambin. (2001). Mechanisms for delayed density-dependent reproductive traits in field voles, Microtus agrestis: the importance of inherited environmental effects. Oikos 95, 185-197.
43. Aars J., Lambin X, Denny R, Griffin A. (2001) Water vole in the Scottish uplands: distribution patterns of disturbed and pristine populations ahead and behind the American mink invasion front Animal Conservation 4, 187-194
42.Telfer, S., Donaldson R, Holt A & Lambin, X. (2001) Metapopulation processes and persistence in remnant water vole populations. Oikos 95,31-42
41.Elston, D; R. Moss, T. Boulinier, C. Arrowsmithand X. Lambin(2001) Analysis of aggregation, a worked example: numbers of ticks on red grouse chicks. Parasitology 122, 563-569
40. MacKinnon, J.L., Petty SJ, Elston DA, Thomas, C.J. & Sherratt TN and X Lambin (2001) Scale invariant spatio-temporal patterns of field vole density. Journal of Animal Ecology 70, 101-111
39. Languy M. and X. Lambin (2001). First record of Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia for Cameroon and Central Africa. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 8:49-50
38. Lambin, X; Petty SJ & MacKinnon JL (2000) Cyclic dynamics in field vole populations and generalist predation. Journal of Animal Ecology 69, 106-118
37. Petty, S.J., Lambin, X., Sherratt, TN., Thomas, C.J., Mackinnon, J.L., Coles, C.F., Davison, M. and Little, B. (2000). Spatial synchrony in field vole Microtus agrestis abundance in a coniferous forest in northern England: the role of vole-eating raptors. Journal of Applied Ecology 37 (s1), 136-147.
36. Sherratt, N.T., Lambin, X., Petty, S.J., Mackinnon, J.L., Coles, C.F. and Thomas, C.J. (2000). Use of coupled oscillator models to understand synchrony and travelling waves in populations of the field vole in northern England. Journal of Applied Ecology 37 (s1), 148-158.
35. Durban J.W., Elston D.A, Lambin X & P.M. Thompson (2000) A role for Bayesian inference in cetacean population assessment. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 2,117-123
34. MacColl, A.D.C., Piertney, S.B., Moss, R., & Lambin, X. (2000) Spatial arrangement of kin affects recruitment success in young male red grouse. Oikos, 90, 261-270.
33. Matthiopoulos, J., Moss, R. & Lambin, X. (2000) The kin-facilitation hypothesis for red grouse population cycles: Territory sharing between relatives. Ecological Modelling, 127, 53-63.
32. Piertney SB, MacColl ADC, Racey PA, Bacon PJ, Lambin X & Dallas JF (2000): Matrilineal genetic structure and female-mediated gene flow in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): An analysis using mitochondrial DNA. Evolution 54, 279-289.
31. Lambin, X; Krebs, CJ, Moss R, Stenseth NC, & Yoccoz NG (1999). Population cycles and parasitism. Science (Technical comment) 286, 2425a
30. Ims RA, Bjørnstad, O, Lambin X. (1999) Spatial population dynamics: Analyses of patterns and processes of population synchronyTrends in Ecology and Evolution 14, 427-432
29. Piertney SB, MacColl ADC, Moss R, Lambin X & Dallas JF (1999): Spatial distribution of genetic relatedness in a moorland population of red grouse. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 68, 317-331
28. Stewart W, Dallas JF, Piertney SB, Marshall F, Telfer S, Sharul A. and Lambin X (1999) Metapopulation genetic structure in the water vole, Arvicola terrestris, in NE Scotland. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 68, 159-171
27. O'Mahony D, Lambin X., MacKinnon JL & Coles CF (1999) Generalist fox predation on cyclic field vole populations in Britain. Ecography 22, 575-581
26. Lambin, X. & Yoccoz, N.C. (1998) The impact of population kin-structure on nestling survival in Townsend's voles, Microtus townsendii. Journal of Animal Ecology, 67, 1-16.
25. Lambin, X; Elston, D.; Petty, SJ; MacKinnon. JL (1998) Spatial patterns and periodic travelling waves in cyclic field vole, Microtus agrestis, populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society London 265, 1491-1496
24. Lambin X. (1998) Gradients in cyclicity and vole life history. Researches in Population Ecology 40, 137-139.
23.Matthiopoulos, J., Moss, R. & Lambin, X. (1998) Models of red grouse cycles: a family affair? Oikos, 82, 574-590
22.Lambin, X. (1997) Home range shifts by breeding female Townsend's voles (Microtus townsendii): A test of the territory bequeathal hypothesis Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 40, 363-372
21. Lambin, X. & MacKinnon JL (1997) The relative efficiency of two commercial live-traps for small mammals. Journal of Zoology 242, 400-404
20. Lambin, X. & Mathers C. (1997) Dissipation of kin discrimination in Orkney voles, Microtus arvalis orcadensis. Annales Zoologica Fennica 34, 23-30
19. Lovet, L, & Kruuk H., Lambin X (1997) Factors influencing the use of fresh water pools by otters in Skye. Journal of Zoology 243, 825-831
18. Lambin, X., Ims, R.A., Yoccoz, N.G., Steen, H. (1995) Correspondence: vole cycles. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10,204
17.Moss, R., Parr, R., & Lambin, X. (1995) Effects of Testosterone on Breeding Density, Breeding Success and Survival of Red Grouse (Vol 258, Pg 175, 1994). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 260, 373-373.
16. Lambin, X, Lambin, J. and Scott BE (1995) Sparrow hawk forced to land in sea. Scottish birds 18, 103-104
15.Scholes, D.T., Gill, J.J.B., Lambin, X., Moss, R., Tomsett A.B. (1994). Multilocus DNA profiling in the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus). Tropical Agricultural Research 6, 202-210
14. Lambin, X. (1994) Changes in sex allocation and female philopatry in voles. Journal of Animal Ecology 64, 945-953
13. Lambin X. (1994) Natal philopatry, competition for resources and inbreeding avoidance in Townsend's voles (Microtus townsendii). Ecology 75, 224-235
12. Lambin, X. (1994) Litter sex-ratio does not determine natal dispersal tendency in female Townsend's voles. Oikos 69, 353-356
11.Lambin, X. (1994) Territory acquisition and social facilitation by litter-mate Townsend's voles (Microtus townsendii). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 6, 213-220
10. Moss, R.; Parr, R. and X. Lambin (1994) Effect of testosterone on breeding density, breeding success and survival of red grouse. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 258, 175-180
9. Lambin, X. & Krebs, C.J. (1993) Influence of female relatedness on the demography of Townsend's vole populations in the spring. Journal of Animal Ecology 62, 536-550
8. Lambin X. (1993) Determinants of synchrony of reproduction in Townsend's voles (Microtus townsendii). Oikos 67, 107-113
7. Lambin X., Krebs CJ & Scott B. (1992) Spacing system of the tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus) in Canada's Western Artic. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70, 2068-2072
6. Lambin, X. & Krebs, C.J. (1991) Can changes in female relatedness influence microtine population dynamics? Oikos 61, 126-132.
5. Lambin, X. & Krebs, C.J. (1991) Spatial organization and mating system of the Townsend's vole, Microtus townsendii. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 28, 353-363
4. Lambin, X. & Bauchau, V. (1989) Contest competition between wood mice and bank voles: is there a winner? Acta Theriologica 34, 381-386
3. Lambin, X. (1988) Social relations in Apodemus sylvaticus as revealed by video observation in the wild. Journal of Zoology (London) 216, 587-593
2. Languy, M. & Lambin, X. (1988) Observation d'un labbe pomarin (Stercorarius pomarinus) au Lac Naivasha (Kenya).Alauda 56, 73
1. Lambin, X. & Guevorts, B. (1986) Les mammifères de la vallée de l'Ourthe entre Hotton et le barrage de Nisramont. Lutra 29, 215-223.
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