Habitat use and demography of <i>Mus musculus</i> in a rural landscape of Argentina

León, Vanina; Fraschina, Jimena; Guidobono, Juan Santiago; Busch, María

doi:10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00290.x

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“…The rodent community in the Pampean region has been widely described (Busch & Kravetz, 1992a, 1992bBusch, Alvarez, Cittadino, & Kravetz, 1997;Dadon, & Hodara, 2000;Busch et al, 2001;Hodara, Busch, Kittlen, & Kravetz, 2001;Hodara & Busch, 2006;Busch & Hodara, 2010;Fraschina, León, & Busch, 2012;León, Fraschina, Guidobono, & Busch, 2013), but mainly in crop fields, their borders, and poultry farms. Other habitats that support species with more specific requirements, such as railway embankments, woodlots and riparian habitats, have been poorly sampled.…”

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Role of Landscape Scale in the Distribution of Rodents in an Agroecosystem of Argentina

Fraschina¹,

León²,

Busch³

2014

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The goal of this study was to assess the effect of the different habitats on rodent diversity, and to estimate the effect of changes in land use on the rodent abundance through different possible scenarios. We sampled poultry farms, human houses, riparian habitats, railway embankments, woodlots, pasture, crop fields and their borders. The habitats with highest frequency of captures were poultry farms and crop field borders, mainly because of Mus musculus and Akodon azarae captures, respectively. All rodent species were found in at least six of the nine habitats sampled, but in some of them with low frequency. The different habitats differed in their contribution to the abundance of each species. Crop fields and pasture borders contributed more than 40% to the abundance of A. azarae, Oxymycterus rufus, Oligoryzomys flavescens and Calomys musculinus, while poultry farms had higher abundance of M. musculus. Woodlots and railway embankments showed a high contribution to O. flavescens abundance. The increase in the area covered by crop fields and human habitats led to an increase in the abundance of M. musculus and Calomys spp. and to a decrease in the relative abundance of other species. Considering the role of habitat diversity in rodent diversity, our results suggest that none of the species studied, except M. musculus, which is highly dependent on farms, depends on a single habitat and that their abundance is supported by a variety of less perturbed habitats. The current changes in land use would generate an increase in M. musculus abundance in detriment of wildlife species which are associated with undisturbed habitats.

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Role of Landscape Scale in the Distribution of Rodents in an Agroecosystem of Argentina

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León²,

Busch³

2014

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“…competitive coexistence (Steward and Levin 1973;Brown 1989;Shenbrot et al 1991;León et al 2013). Competitive coexistence of multiple species is likely a result of temporal and/or spatial variability in resource abundance, density-dependent resource consumption rate, as well as natality and mortality rates (Brown 1989;Kneitel and Chase 2004).…”

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Intra- and interspecific interactions and environmental factors determine spatial–temporal species assemblages of rodents in arid grasslands

Jiang

et al. 2014

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Many factors have been shown to affect species assemblages of a community, but studies using long-term spatial-temporal community data are still lacking. In this study, by using population abundance data of 14 rodent species over 25 years in 21 sampling sites, we investigated the effects of taxonomic relation, density dependency, species interaction and climate variation in determining spatial-temporal species assemblages of rodents in arid grasslands of Inner Mongolia in China. By the use of GAMM analysis, we found that intraspecific interactions were more common and more significant than interspecific interactions. Negative interactions between species of the same genus were more common than negative interactions between species of different genera. Dominant species show negative interactions on less abundant or rare species. Positive interactions often occur within rare or less abundant species. Through cluster analysis, we found species assemblages of rodent communities are well explained by assemblages of environmental variables, and species of same genus tend not to occur together as compared to species of the same family. Our results indicate that resource partitioning through intra-or interspecific competition and environmental filtering by climate and vegetation are important forces in shaping the spatial-temporal community structure and the dynamics of small mammal populations in an arid grassland landscape.

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“…It was observed that M. musculus on the farms is reproductively active throughout the year, achieves sexual maturity with a month and a half of age, and produces litters with an average of five and seven pups (Miño, 2003). On the other hand, it may also move from other farms, probably using riparian habitats as corridors (León et al, , 2013. More recently, a study on bromadiolone resistance reported that 8% of M. musculus from these farms were resistant (Guidobono et al, 2010).…”

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Consumption Pattern of Bromadiolone in Presence of Alternative Food by House Mice (Mus musculus) Infesting Poultry Farms

Arístegui¹,

Miño²,

Mansilla

et al. 2017

Rev. Bras. Cienc. Avic.

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Poultry farms in Central Argentina are often infested by Mus musculus L., despite the regular application of the rodenticide bromadiolone. This failure may be explained by the consumption pattern of mice, which may prefer alternative foods available on the farms to bromadiolone baits. Here we examine the consumption pattern of bromadiolone in the presence of wheat by M. musculus infesting poultry farms compared with the laboratory CF1 mouse strain. Overall, the poultry farm mice had longer survival and lower total food consumption in comparison with the CF1 mice. On the first day of the experiment, rodents from both strains and sexes consumed bromadiolone in the same proportion as wheat. On the second day, female mice of both origins showed a significant decrease in the consumption of bromadiolone, while males kept that proportion constant. Despite the consumption differences between males and females, survival rates were not different. We concluded that rodents from farms behaved as if they had never been in contact with bromadiolone, since they showed the same pattern of poison consumption that the CF1 mice. Females may have associated physical upset with the consumption of bromadiolone, since they decreased its consumption relative to wheat. However, this consumption pattern did not help them to achieve higher survival than males. On poultry farms, the balanced food fed to chickens may function as an alternative food to the poison for rodents. Therefore, we propose that rodenticide should be applied during downtime, when shed are cleaned and there is no chicken feed, which could be used as alternative food.

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Habitat use and demography of Mus musculus in a rural landscape of Argentina

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Role of Landscape Scale in the Distribution of Rodents in an Agroecosystem of Argentina

Role of Landscape Scale in the Distribution of Rodents in an Agroecosystem of Argentina

Intra- and interspecific interactions and environmental factors determine spatial–temporal species assemblages of rodents in arid grasslands

Consumption Pattern of Bromadiolone in Presence of Alternative Food by House Mice (Mus musculus) Infesting Poultry Farms

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