Tarja Oksanen

TL;DR: Vole dynamics in the short-term exclosure were compared to dynamics in five reference areas with similar habitat conditions and the strongest response was displayed by field voles, hypothesized to be the pivotal prey species of weasels, especially by females and young individuals.

TL;DR: It is revealed that a substantial increase in community biomass which occurs only when plant species capable of accumulating biomass are present, and palatability is a poor predictor of long-term responses of plants to excluding herbivores.

TL;DR: On grassland/meadow tundra, increasing intensity of summer predation reduces the amplitude and period of lemming and plant oscillations and increases the minimum and average density of lemmings and depletable plants, so the predicted predator–lemming relationship is mutualistic rather than exploitative.

TL;DR: The results highlighted that, in northern ecosystems, ongoing climate change has the potential to impact specialist predator species through two mechanistic linkages, which may in the long-run, threaten the viability of their populations, and lead to potential severe cascading trophic effects at the ecosystem level.

TL;DR: This paper presents a new approach to estimating the biomass requirements of terrestria by exploiting the copious abundance of plant biomass in arid regions of the world.