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Machtinger ET, Williams SC. Practical Guide to Trapping Peromyscus leucopus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) and Peromyscus maniculatus for Vector and Vector-Borne Pathogen Surveillance and Ecology. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2020; 20:5948077. [PMID: 33135755 PMCID: PMC7604846 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/ieaa028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Arthropods pests are most frequently associated with both plants and vertebrate animals. Ticks, in particular the blacklegged ticks Ixodes scapularis Say and Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls (Acari: Ixodidae), are associated with wildlife hosts and are the primary vectors of Lyme disease, the most frequently reported vector-borne disease in the United States. Immature blacklegged ticks in the eastern United States frequently use small mammals from the genus Peromyscus as hosts. These mice are competent reservoirs for Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, as well as other tick-borne pathogens. To conduct surveillance on immature ticks and pathogen circulation in hosts, capture and handling of these small mammals is required. While protocols for rearing and pest surveillance on plants are common, there are very few protocols aimed at entomologists to conduct research on vertebrate-arthropod relationships. The goal of this manuscript is to provide a practical template for trapping Peromyscus spp. for vector and vector-borne pathogen surveillance and ecology for professionals that may not have a background in wildlife research. Important considerations are highlighted when targeting P. leucopus Rafinesque and P. maniculatus Wagner. Specifically, for tick and tick-borne disease-related projects, materials that may be required are suggested and references and other resources for researchers beginning a trapping study are provided.
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- Erika T Machtinger
- Department of Entomology, 4 Chemical Ecology Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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- Center for Vector Biology and Zoonotic Diseases, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT
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Hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) in a regenerating clearing: the effects of clear-felling and regrowth thinning on long-term abundance dynamics. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-020-01392-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Spatial dynamics of a hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) population at different densities. MAMMAL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-019-00452-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Amori G, De Silvestro V, Ciucci P, Luiselli L. Quantifying whether different demographic models produce incongruent results on population dynamics of two long-term studied rodent species. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.1515/eje-2017-0003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Abstract1. Population density (ind/ha) of long-term (>15 years) series of CMR populations, using distinct demographic models designed for both open and closed populations, were analysed for two sympatric species of rodents (Myodes glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis) from a mountain area in central Italy, in order to test the relative performance of various employed demographic models. In particular, the hypothesis that enumeration models systematically underestimate the population size of a given population was tested.2. Overall, we compared the performance of 7 distinct demographic models, including both closed and open models, for each study species. Although the two species revealed remarkable intrinsic differences in demography traits (for instance, a lower propensity for being recaptured in Apodemus flavicollis), the Robust Design appeared to be the best fitting model, showing that it is the most suitable model for long-term studies.3. Among the various analysed demographic models, Jolly-Seber returned the lower estimates of population density for both species. Thus, this demographic model could not be suggested for being applied for long-term studies of small mammal populations because it tends to remarkably underestimate the effective population size. Nonetheless, yearly estimates of population density by Jolly-Seber correlated positively with yearly estimates of population density by closed population models, thus showing that interannual trends in population dynamics were uncovered by both types of demographic models, although with different values in terms of true population size.
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Aspects of demography in three distinct populations of garden dormouse, Eliomys quercinus, across Italy and Spain. RENDICONTI LINCEI 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-015-0490-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ellis MV, Bedward M. A simulation study to quantify drift fence configuration and spacing effects when sampling mobile animals. Ecosphere 2014. [DOI: 10.1890/es14-00078.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Summer mortality in the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) and its effect on population dynamics. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-013-0156-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tew TE, Todd IA, Macdonald DW. The effects of trap spacing on population estimation of small mammals. J Zool (1987) 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1994.tb08598.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BALČIAUSKAS L, JUŠKAITIS R. DIVERSITY OF SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES IN LITHUANIA (1. A REVIEW). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/13921657.1997.10541423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Linas BALČIAUSKAS
- a Institute of Ecology , Akademijos 2, LT-2600 , Vilnius , Lithuania
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King CM, Edgar RL. Techniques for trapping and tracking stoats (Mustela erminea); a review, and a new system. NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1977.9517953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Carolyn M. King
- Ecology Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, , P.O. Box 30466, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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- Ecology Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, , P.O. Box 30466, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
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- K. Willan
- a Department of Zoology , University of Fort Hare
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Abu Baker MA, Brown JS. Islands of fear: effects of wooded patches on habitat suitability of the striped mouse in a South African grassland. Funct Ecol 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01757.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Watkins AF, McWhirter JL, King CM. Patchiness in distribution of rodents and mustelids in New Zealand forests. WILDLIFE RESEARCH 2010. [DOI: 10.1071/wr09088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Context. Relative density indices assuming uniform distribution of the target species are often the only cost-effective method for monitoring a population over the long term and at landscape scale, and the only source of valuable historical data. Yet, theoretical models emphasise the dangers of ignoring spatial heterogeneity, especially in short-term field data.
Aims. To test whether Brown’s index of patchiness (BIP) can offer a simple means of checking rodent and mustelid survey data for violations of the assumption of uniform distribution.
Methods. We use BIP to interrogate long-term legacy data collected by index trapping of mice (Mus musculus), rats (Rattus rattus and R. norvegicus) and stoats (Mustela erminea) in New Zealand forests.
Key results. We found evidence of moderately patchy distributions that were independent of abundance in all three species. In two South Island beech (Nothofagus) forest valleys, 19% (6 of 31) of mouse samples and 8% (3 of 36) of stoat samples were significantly patchy, correlated with a seedfall event; in mixed forest at Pureora in the North Island, significant patchiness in distribution of ship rats was recorded in 19% (16 of 84) of Fenn trap samples and 5% (2 of 42) of rodent trap samples.
Conclusions. Moderate patchiness is common. The consequences for any given study depend on the purpose of the work, but may be more important for practical management than for population modeling.
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Smal CM, Fairley JS. The dynamics and regulation of small rodent populations in the woodland ecosystems of Killarney, Ireland. J Zool (1987) 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1982.tb03491.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hall SJG, Semeonoff R. Plasma esterase polymorphism in the Bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus, in Britain. J Zool (1987) 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1985.tb04925.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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MACDONALD DW, TATTERSALL FH, SERVICE KM, FIRBANK LG, FEBER RE. Mammals, agri-environment schemes and set-aside ? what are the putative benefits? Mamm Rev 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2007.00100.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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MACDONALD DW, TATTERSALL FH, SERVICE KM, FIRBANK LG, FEBER RE. Mammals, agri-environment schemes and set-aside - what are the putative benefits? Mamm Rev 2007. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1770.2002.00172_37_4.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- S. Bertolino
- DI.VA.P.R.A. (Department of Protection and Exploitation of Agricultural Resources) Entomology and Zoology, Grugliasco (TO), Italy
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The influence of high nestbox density on the common dormouseMuscardinus avellanarius population. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03192617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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BATTERSBY JESSAMYE, GREENWOOD JEREMYJD. Monitoring terrestrial mammals in the UK: past, present and future, using lessons from the bird world. Mamm Rev 2004. [DOI: 10.1046/j.0305-1838.2003.00023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Population dynamics, breeding patterns and spatial use of the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) in an Alpine habitat. J Zool (1987) 2001. [DOI: 10.1017/s0952836901000474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Cimmaruta R, Forti G, Nascetti G, Bullini L. Spatial distribution and competition in two parapatric sibling species of European plethodontid salamanders. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 1999. [DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1999.9522821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Fernandez FAS, Dunstone N, Evans PR. Density-dependence in habitat utilisation by wood mice in a Sitka spruce successional mosaic: the roles of immigration, emigration, and variation among local demographic parameters. CAN J ZOOL 1999. [DOI: 10.1139/z98-228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Density dependence in habitat utilisation by a population of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus L.) was investigated within a habitat mosaic produced by the felling of mature Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis Bong. Carrière). A capture-mark-recapture study was carried out from May 1990 to June 1992, with trapping in five 0.81-ha grids marked in mature forest and clear-fellings of different ages. Intergrid movements were frequent (15.3% of all recaptures). A significant linear negative relationship was found between overall population sizes and degree of heterogeneity in habitat utilisation, although the former explained only about one-quarter of the variation in the latter (r2= 0.233). Wood mice were more evenly distributed among grids when numbers in the area were high, indicating density-dependence in their habitat utilisation. Demography was studied at subpopulation (grid) level to determine whether the observed pattern was due to movements among grids or to intergrid variation in the balance between recruitment and losses. Partial regression coefficients in a multiple regression showed that emigration/immigration had a lesser role in explaining the pattern, although the former was significant in explaining part of subpopulation decreases and the latter was significant in explaining part of their increases. Differences in the balance between recruitment and loss rates among local subpopulations accounted for most of the observed density-dependent changes in habitat utilisation. These results do not support the view that such changes are mostly due to active choices made by individuals moving among habitats.
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Fernandez FAS, Evansa PR, Dunstone N. Population dynamics of the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus (Rodentia: Muridae) in a Sitka spruce successional mosaic. J Zool (1987) 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05473.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rogers LM, Gorman ML. The population dynamics of small mammals living in set-aside and surrounding semi-natural and crop land. J Zool (1987) 1995. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb02724.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zabel CJ, McKelvey K, Ward Jr. JP. Influence of primary prey on home-range size and habitat-use patterns of northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina). CAN J ZOOL 1995. [DOI: 10.1139/z95-049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Correlations between the home-range size of northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) and proportion of their range in old-growth forest have been reported, but there are few data on the relationship between their home-range size and prey. The primary prey of spotted owls are wood rats and northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus). Wood rats are larger and heavier than flying squirrels, and their population densities tend to be much greater than those of flying squirrels. We present data indicating that the home ranges of spotted owls are smaller where their diet consists predominantly of wood rats than where it consists predominantly of flying squirrels, and the proportion of the diet consisting of wood rats and flying squirrels explained significant variation in home-range size. We also found a significant correlation between home-range size and abundance of wood rats. These data indicate that prey species are a better predictor of home-range size than the proportion of older forest within spotted owl home ranges in the Klamath Province of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon, an area that is predominantly late-successional forest. Differences in habitat use were also related to prey species. Where spotted owls foraged for wood rats, the results indicated a preference for habitat edges, but where they utilized flying squirrels no such patterns were apparent.
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Halle S. Wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus L.) as pioneers of recolonization in a reclaimed area. Oecologia 1993; 94:120-127. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00317312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/1992] [Accepted: 12/22/1992] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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HOWARD PC. Spatial organization of common reedbuck with special reference to the role of juvenile dispersal in population regulation. Afr J Ecol 1986. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.1986.tb00357.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Dickman CR. An experimental manipulation of the intensity of interspecific competition: effects on a small marsupial. Oecologia 1986; 70:536-543. [PMID: 28311495 DOI: 10.1007/bf00379900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/1986] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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An investigation was made of the effects of reducing and enhancing the intensity of competition on a small marsupial, Antechinus stuartii, from a larger and competitively dominant congener, A. swainsonii. Populations of these species were monitored in two study areas (one control, one experimental) in forest near Canberra, Australia, between February and July in 1980 and 1981. In the experimental study area in 1980 I reduced the numbers of A. swainsonii relative to A. stuartii (thus reducing the intensity of interspecific competition), but in 1981 I augmented the numbers of A. swainsonii (thus increasing the intensity of competition). No manipulations were made in the control study area, and the numbers of both species remained similar there in both years. When the intensity of interspecific competition was reduced, the A. stuartii population increased in size. Increases occurred also in individual movements, home range areas, diurnal activity and in the proportion of large terrestrial prey (larvae, Amphipoda) in the diet. An increase in use of structurally complex forest floor habitats also coincided with decreased arboreal activity. In contrast, when the intensity of competition was enhanced, most of these population and resource shifts were reversed. These findings suggest that reduction in the intensity of interspecific competition allows A. stuartii access to terrestrial sources of food favoured by A. swainsonii, whereas enhancement leads to exclusion of A. stuartii from the forest floor. Competition occurs by interference. This may result in fixed per capita competitive effects of A. swainsonii on A. stuartii, and account for the observed changes in a very broad range of population and resource parameters.
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- C R Dickman
- Department of Zoology, Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, 2601, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia
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B chromosomes in Rattus fuscipes II. The transmission of B chromosomes to offspring and population studies: support for the “parasitic” model. Heredity (Edinb) 1984. [DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1984.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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