Microhabitat use of wood mice ranging from a reserved belt with evergreen broad-leaved trees to a coniferous plantation

Effects of elevation and postharvest disturbance on the composition of vegetation established after the clear-cut harvest of conifer plantations in southern Shikoku, Japan

“…Acorns of Fagaceae species are dispersed by the food-hoarding behavior of some rodents or jays (Shaw 1968;Shimada 2001;Sato et al 2006). Wood mice are known to carry living acorns up to 50 m (Jensen and Nielsen 1986;Miguchi 1993;Sato et al unpublished data).…”

Patterns and factors in early-stage vegetation recovery at abandoned plantation clearcut sites in Oita, Japan: possible indicators for evaluating vegetation status

“…ETS Evergreen tree species, ESS evergreen shrub species, DTS deciduous nonpioneer tree species, DSS deciduous nonpioneer shrub species, DPT deciduous pioneer tree species, DPS deciduous pioneer shrub species Distance to the nearest natural forest b -0.002 -0.167 a Numerical attributes whose values are Pearson's correlation coefficients b Categorical attributes whose values are Kendall's rank correlation coefficients * P \ 0.05, **P \ 0.01 significant differences were detected among the vegetation types, and no correlation was found with the axes derived from the DCA. This can probably be explained by the fact that most of the natural forests were located within 50 m of the edges of the abandoned sites, a distance over which seed dispersal by most modes of dispersal is considered possible (see: Miguchi 1993 andSato et al 2006 for dispersal by small animals; Matlack 1994 and Grashof-Bokdam and Geertsema 1998 for dispersal by birds; and Hirata 2005 andYamagawa et al 2007 for dispersal by wind and gravity) and within a distance that forest edges can potentially influence the facing clearcut sites (Euskirchen et al 2001;. Thus, it is probable that the abandoned clearcut sites investigated in this study were influenced by the same surrounding conditions (seed dispersal and edge effects) that act upon the nearby natural forests.…”

Acorn Dispersal by Wood Mice in a Secondary Lucidophyllous Forest on a Steep Slope in a Warm-temperate Region of Japan.

“…1981 ; Tanouchi and Yamamoto, 1995 ;Ishida et al, 2005Ishida et al, 1975Vander Wall, 1990Sone et al, 2002Takahashi et al, 2006Sato et al, 2006Ito et al, 2007Ito et al, 2007 To clarify the influence of micro-topography on patterns of acorn dispersal by wood mice, we performed an acorn dispersal experiment using acorns containing magnets and a magnetic locator in the lower and crest areas of a slope in a lucidophyllous forest established on a steep slope. Most acorns were dispersed further down the slope from their installed locations, remaining within approximately 4 and 14 m of the lower and crest area of the slope, respectively.…”