Research workers in the fields of mammalogy and ecology will find this an essential book and agriculturists, foresters and anyone concerned professionally with the control of small mammals will find ...

It discusses the characteristics of the vegetation which determine this productivity, including such features as leaf or plant arrangement ... them here and the book should form valuable background ...

For decades, parasites were omitted from the study of food web ecology based on the assumption that they contributed negligible biomass to ecosystems. Measuring biomass, or productivity ...