The daily activity rhythm of two competitive rodents: Clethrionomys glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis

Wójcik, Jan M.; Wolk, K.

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“…Zielinski (1988) suggested that weasels are nocturnal so as to adjust their activity rhythms to that of their prey. However, only Apodemus mice are mainly nocturnal (Wójcik andWo³k 1985, Corbet andHarris 1991). Bank voles and Microtus voles can be active day and night (Corbet andHarris 1991, Halle andLehmann 1992).…”

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Summertime activity patterns of common weaselsMustela nivalis vulgaris under differing prey abundances in grassland habitats

Brandt

Lambin

2005

Acta Theriol

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Summertime activity patterns of common weaselsMustela nivalis vulgaris under differing prey abundances in grassland habitats. Acta Theriologica 50: 67-79.Weasels Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766 in Kielder Forest, UK showed a diurnal rhythm of activity in summer and we argue that this is the prevailing rhythm found in weasels under natural conditions. Climatic conditions influenced weasel activity with weasels decreasing activity under rainy conditions, but we found no influence of month or weasel weight. In certain habitat types levels of weasel activity increased with increasing field vole Microtus agrestis density. This result stands in contrast to results from studies carried out in the laboratory and may reflect a greater proportion of time spent in reproductive activity and intra-specific interactions in areas where vole density, and hence conspecific density is high.

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Summertime activity patterns of common weaselsMustela nivalis vulgaris under differing prey abundances in grassland habitats

Brandt

Lambin

2005

Acta Theriol

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“…is less pronounced as M. glareolus is more herbivorous, preferring items such as leaves and fruits, but also consuming insects, seeds and fungi to a smaller extent (Gębczyńska 1983;Abt and Bock 1998). Furthermore, M. glareolus has a different pattern of daily rhythms compared to Apodemus spp., showing multiple peaks of activity during both night and day (Wójcik and Wolk 1985;Canova 1993). However, this species tends to be more active during the day in the presence of both Apodemus species, showing at least a certain degree of competitive interference (Andrzejewski and Olszewski 1963;Greenwood 1978).…”

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“…Montgomery 1980Montgomery , 1981Buesching et al 2008;Amori et al 2010). A. sylvaticus and A. flavicollis have highly overlapping trophic niches, mainly consisting of tree and shrub seeds and invertebrate prey (Canova 1993; Abt and Bock 1998); they also have overlapping daily activity rhythms, with a single or occasionally double peak of nocturnal activity (Greenwood 1978;Wójcik and Wolk 1985;Canova 1993). A. flavicollis is known to behaviourally dominate A. sylvaticus both in field and experimental conditions (Hoffmeyer 1973;Hoffmeyer and Hansson 1974;Montgomery 1978;Cihakova and Frynta 1996).…”

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Empirical evaluation of the strength of interspecific competition in shaping small mammal communities in fragmented landscapes

Sozio

Mortelliti

2015

Landscape Ecol

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Context Theory predicts that habitat loss and fragmentation may have drastic consequences on species' interactions. To date, however, little empirical evidence exists on the strength of interspecific competition in shaping animal communities in fragmented landscapes. Objectives Our aim was to measure the degree of ongoing competitive interference between species in fragmented landscapes. Our model system was the community of ground-dwelling rodents in deciduous woodlands in central Italy, composed of a habitat generalist species (Apodemus sylvaticus) and two forest specialists (Apodemus flavicollis and Myodes glareolus). Our objectives were to test whether species were segregated among forest patches and whether spatial segregation was determined by interspecific competition or habitat and resource availability. Methods We surveyed the populations inhabiting 29 woodland patches in a highly fragmented landscape using a capture-mark-recapture protocol, capturing [4500 individuals. First we modelled species' distribution as a function of habitat, resource availability and landscape variables. The second stage of our analyses involved measuring the response of vital rate parameters (body mass, reproduction, survival, recruitment, population density) to competitor density.Results The relative distribution of species reflected a spatial segregation of habitat generalists and specialists according to habitat quality, cover and connectivity. Interspecific competition mainly affected individual level vital rates, whereas we found no substantial effects at the population level.Conclusions Competitive exclusion of specialist species by generalist species was occurring. However, when compared to other factors such as habitat connectivity and resource availability, interspecific competition played a relatively minor role in shaping the studied community.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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“…Although there might be some direct and indirect competitive interactions between the two species Olszewski 1963, Wójcik andWo³k 1985), no quantitative effects of the possible competition on population dynamics of either species have been observed (Pucek et al 1993). Thus, we believe that we are justified in considering the two species as independent of each other.…”

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Population dynamics ofClethrionomys glareolus andApodemus flavicollis: seasonal components of density dependence and density independence

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Population dynamics of Clethrionomys glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis: seasonal components of density dependence and density independence. [In: Theriology at the turn of a new century. J. Gliwicz, ed]. Acta Theriologica 47, Suppl. 1: 39-67.Using long-term data on two forest rodent species [the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus (Schreber, 1780) and the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior, 1834)] from the Bia³owie¿a Primeval Forest (E Poland), we decompose the annual density-dependent and density-independent structures into their seasonal components. For this purpose we adopt a state-space modelling approach explicitly incorporating sampling stochasticity. As density-independent factors we use the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) -a proxy variable for the overall climatic condition -and data on annual seed production. We find a weak effect of the NAO in the annual models for both species as well as during the winter in the seasonal model for C. glareolus. The effect of the NAO disappears, however, when seed-crops are incorporated into the models (for both the annual and the seasonal -suggesting that NAO primarily affects seed production). Seed production enters the models with a positive effect during the winter only, suggesting that the among-year variation in rodent density is primarily accounted for by differences in seed-production, particularly oak seeds. For A. flavicollis, a slightly positive effect of hornbeam also appears in the summer dynamics. The obtained results are discussed on the basis of earlier studies on the same populations, on the same species studied elsewhere as well as on the basis of general ecological insight.

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The daily activity rhythm of two competitive rodents: Clethrionomys glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis

Cited by 39 publications

References 12 publications

Summertime activity patterns of common weaselsMustela nivalis vulgaris under differing prey abundances in grassland habitats

Summertime activity patterns of common weaselsMustela nivalis vulgaris under differing prey abundances in grassland habitats

Empirical evaluation of the strength of interspecific competition in shaping small mammal communities in fragmented landscapes

Population dynamics ofClethrionomys glareolus andApodemus flavicollis: seasonal components of density dependence and density independence

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