Characteristics of Clethrionomys glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis individuals recruited to isolated populations on Crabapple Island (Masurian Lake District, Poland)

• Autorzy: Dudek D. , Alcheikh B.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Crabapple Island, a 4-ha island covered with a mixed forest dominated by Tilio-Carpinetum Traczyk 1962, is situated on Lake Bełdany (53 stopnie 42 min.N, 21 stopni 35 min. E) at a distance of about 120 m from the mainland. Materials were collected by using the CMR (catch-mark-release) method during five 7-day censuses conducted each year in 1994-1998. The recruitment of new individuals to the trappable part of the bank vole and yellow-necked mouse populations was compared with respect to the number of new-captured individuals, their age, and reproductive status. The age of new-captured individuals was estimated from growth curves. It was observed that when the populations of the two species were more abundant, the first-captured individuals were older than when population numbers were lower. The proportion of mature individuals (including pregnant females) in the groupm of all individuals captured for the first time was higher for the yellow-necked mouse than for the bank vole (48 and 15%, respectively). In both species, the number of mature new-captured individuals was negatively correlated with the total number of conspecific females present in the population. In the case of the bank vole (probably also of the yellow-necked mouse), this may be related with territoriality of mature females. As yellow-necked mice were first captured at an older age than bank voles, this may be a source of errors in estimates of numbers of immature individuals and, consequently, in the analysis of the population structure of this species.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

bank voles; body weight; population abundance; recruits; reproductive status; yellow-necked mice

• Wydawca: Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Ecology
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: Vol. 50, nr 1
• Strony: 57--68
• Opis fizyczny: Tab., wykr.,Bibliogr. 42 poz.,

Twórcy

autor

Dudek D.

• Institute of Ecology PAS, Konopnickiej Str. 1, 05-092 Łomianki, Poland

autor

Alcheikh B.

• Tichreen University, Faculty of Agriculture, Lattakia, Syria

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