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Increased hunting effort buffers against vole scarcity in an urban Kestrel Falco tinnunculus population
Bird Study; 11/1/2007; Riegert, Jan; Dufek, Ales; Fainová, Drahomíra; Mikes, Václav; Fuchs, Roman; 5058 words
; Capsule In years with low vole abundance birds visited hunting grounds ... success of urban Kestrels during changing vole abundance. Methods For five years, we ... Pitfall traps were used for determining vole abundance. Kestrel diet composition was ...
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Additional habitat, diet and range information for the white-footed vole (Arborimus albipes)
The American Midland Naturalist; 7/1/2003; Manning, Tom; Maguire, Chris C; Jacobs, Katherine M; Luoma, Daniel L; 4046 words
; ... false impression that it is rare. The white-footed vole is listed by the U.S. federal government as a Species ... recommends study of the general ecology of this forest vole. Several studies suggest that white-fooled voles are ... al., 1983). One study reported that the diet of this vole consists entirely of ...
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Ratty's return: towns and cities offer refuge to the threatened water vole.(News)
The Independent on Sunday (London, England); 4/20/2003; Carrell, Severin; 566 words
; Ratty the water vole is back in town. The chubby-faced creature ... years naturalists have believed that water vole numbers had suffered a catastrophic decline ... are largely blamed for decimating water vole numbers in Britain. Water voles are mink ...
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Ratty's return: towns and cities offer refuge to the threatened water vole
The Independent on Sunday; 4/20/2003; Severin Carrell; 568 words
; Ratty the water vole is back in town. The chubby-faced creature ... years naturalists have believed that water vole numbers had suffered a catastrophic decline ... are largely blamed for decimating water vole numbers in Britain. Water voles are mink ...
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The effect of winter food stores on body mass and winter survival of water voles, Arvicola terrestris, in Western Siberia: the implications for population dynamics
Folia Zoologica; 1/1/2004; Potapov, Mikhail A; Rogov, Viktor G; Ovchinnikova, Larisa E; Muzyka, Vladimir Yu; Et al; 4859 words
; ... food deficit can act to reduce a water vole, Arvicola terrestris, population in Western ... and reproductive potential in the water vole population in Western Siberia. Key words ... Introduction The aquatic form of the water vole, Arvicola terrestris L., is known to exhibit ...
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The Effect of Female Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) Immigrants on Space Use of Conspecific Female Residents
The American Midland Naturalist; 1/1/2004; Hayes, Loren D; Lin, Y Kirk; Solomon, Nancy G; 2701 words
; ... tested the hypothesis that female prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) residents change ... immigration pressure. We established prairie vole populations in four 32 32-m enclosures ... per individual) from each radio-tracked vole, we determined 95% MCP based on kernel ...
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Population Dynamics of Meadow Voles and Feral House Mice on a Dredge Disposal Site
The American Midland Naturalist; 10/1/2006; Rose, Robert K; Kratimenos, Georgia E; 4409 words
; ... mouse) and Microtus pennsylvanicus, (meadow vole), in a highly disturbed dredge disposal ... declined from 104/ha to 37/ha and meadow vole density gradually increased from 8/ha to ... more than the others. Nearly 72% of meadow vole captures were recorded in pure Phragmites ...
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The fescue, the fungus, and the prairie vole
Natural History; 5/1/2002; Clay, Keith; 677 words
; The prairie vole Microtus ochrogaster)-a close relative of the meadow vole and one of North America's most prolific mammals-lives ... for a creature that's only two inches high. To feed, a vole bites a stem off at the bottom, pulls it downward, bites ...
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Is food quality responsible for the cold-season decline in bank vole density? Laboratory experiment with herb and acorn diets
Folia Zoologica; 1/1/2007; Wereszczynska, Anna M; Nowakowski, Wojciech K; Nowakowski, Jaroslaw K; Jedrzejewska, Bogumila; 4768 words
; ... level of detoxification enzymes in the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus (Schreber, 1780 ... be the main cause of seasonal decline in vole density in autumn-winter. Key words: Clethrionomys ... activity, and enzymatic activity in the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus (Schreber, 1780 ...
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Epigenetic and dental variation of the common vole, Microtus arvalis (Mammalia: Rodentia) in the Czech Republic
Folia Zoologica; 1/1/2004; Uhlíková, Jitka; 3567 words
; ... studied in ten populations of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) from the Czech and Slovak ... Introduction The distribution range of the common vole, Microtus arvalis (Pallas, 1779), extends ... skeletal and dental variation in Czech vole populations and to compare epigenetic divergence ...
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