| role of small mammals in the persistence of louping-ill virus: field survey and tick co-feeding studies. | louping-ill (li) is a tick-borne viral disease of red grouse, lagopus lagopus scoticus lath. (tetraonidae: galliformes), and sheep, ovis aries l. (bovidae: artiodactyla), that causes economic loss to upland farms and sporting estates. unvaccinated sheep, grouse and mountain hares, lepus timidus l. (leporidae: lagomorpha), are known to transmit li virus, whereas red deer, cenrus elaphus l. (cervidae: artiodactyla), and rabbits, oryctolagus cuniculus l. (leporidae: lagomorpha), do not. however, th ... | 2000 | 11016435 |
| the occurrence and abundance of helminth parasites of the mountain hare lepus timidus (l.) and the wild rabbit oryctolagus cuniculus (l.) in aberdeenshire, scotland. | mountain hares were collected each month between april 1984 and march 1985 and their intestines examined for helminths. 26 rabbits were also collected between july and december 1984 and examined for gastro-intestinal helminths. three nematode and two cestode species were found in the hares while only two nematode and one cestode species were found in the rabbits. trichostrongylus retortaeformis was recorded from 88% of the 193 hares and 92% of the rabbits while comparable figures for passalurus ... | 1986 | 3734402 |
| louping ill virus in the uk: a review of the hosts, transmission and ecological consequences of control. | louping ill virus (liv) is a tick-borne flavivirus that is part of the tick-borne encephalitis complex of viruses (tbev) and has economic and welfare importance by causing illness and death in livestock, especially sheep, ovies aries, and red grouse, lagopus lagopus scoticus, an economically valuable gamebird. unlike western tbev which is found primarily in woodlands and is reservoired by small rodents, liv is not generally transmitted by small rodents but instead by sheep, red grouse and mounta ... | 2016 | 26205612 |
| altitudinal patterns of tick and host abundance: a potential role for climate change in regulating tick-borne diseases? | the impact of climate change on vector-borne infectious diseases is currently controversial. in europe the primary arthropod vectors of zoonotic diseases are ticks, which transmit borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (the agent of lyme disease), tick-borne encephalitis virus and louping ill virus between humans, livestock and wildlife. ixodes ricinus ticks and reported tick-borne disease cases are currently increasing in the uk. theories for this include climate change and increasing host abundance. ... | 2010 | 19685082 |
| parasite-mediated reduction in fecundity of mountain hares. | mountain hare populations in scotland exhibit regular 10 year fluctuations in abundance. simple models of host-parasite population dynamics suggest that parasite-mediated reductions in host fecundity can cause a transition from stable to cyclic host population dynamics. we tested the hypothesis that parasites reduce hare fecundity by experimentally reducing parasite burdens and recording female survival, body condition and fecundity. we captured 41 adult female hares in october 2002; 22 were tre ... | 2004 | 15801590 |
| the potential role of habitat on intestinal helminths of mountain hares, lepus timidus. | over the last century in the uplands of scotland, the extent of heather moorland which supports high densities of mountain hares lepus timidus has diminished and has gradually been replaced by large-scale commercial forestry plantations or expanding natural woodlands. the potential impact of such a change in land use on host-parasite interactions was investigated by comparing the intensity and prevalence of infection of hares by parasites in two separate habitats: a large hare-fenced young fores ... | 2001 | 11818051 |
| counting mountain hares in scotland. | the mountain hare (lepus timidus) is britain's only native hare, but counting them is challenging. here,georgina millsexplains how new research is helping to finally discover the numbers of this elusive species. | 2018 | 29440602 |
| unstable dynamics and population limitation in mountain hares. | the regular large-scale population fluctuations that characterize many species of northern vertebrates have fascinated ecologists since the time of charles elton. there is still, however, no clear consensus on what drives these fluctuations. throughout their circumpolar distribution, mountain hares lepus timidus show regular and at times dramatic changes in density. there are distinct differences in the nature, amplitude and periodicity of these fluctuations between regions and the reasons for t ... | 2007 | 17944616 |