Nesting Behavior in Four Species of Mice

Klein, Harold G.; Layne, James N.

doi:10.2307/1379879

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“…First, thermoregulatory re-sponses in Peromyscus have been studied in populations from several geographic regions, including Florida (Klein and Layne, 1978), Georgia, Virginia , the Carolinas (Tannenbaum, 1989; Tannenbaum and Pivorun, 1984,1987,1988), Michigan (Hill, 1975), Wisconsin (Hill, 1977), and Connecticut Vogt, 1981;Vogt and Lynch, 1982); however, this is the first comprehensive seasonal investigation of thermoregulation in Peromyscus leucopus at the northern part of the geographic range of the species and this study will enhance our understanding of the scope of its thermoregulatory adjustments. The rationale for this investigation is threefold.…”

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Winter Acclimatization in Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis, P. leucopus noveboracensis, and P. l. leucopus

Pierce

Vogt

1993

Journal of Mammalogy

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Winter Acclimatization in Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis, P. leucopus noveboracensis, and P. l. leucopus

Pierce

Vogt

1993

Journal of Mammalogy

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“…Since Peromyscus species use arboreal habitats, vertical niche segregation might reduce competition and allow increased horizontal overlap (Schoener 1974, Cameron andKincaid 1982). This possibility is supported by observations (Smith and Speller 1970, Meserve 1976, Holbrook 1978, Wolff and Hurlbutt 1982, Barry et al 1984 and experimental data (Klein and Layne 1978, Tadlock and Klein 1979, Newton et al 1980, Stab 1980. We studied vertical habitat segregation by reciprocal removals of these species on live-trapping grids.…”

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Vertical Stratification of Activity of Two Peromyscus Species: An Experimental Analysis

Harney¹,

Dueser²

1987

Ecology

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The importance of competitive interactions in maintaining the vertical microhabitat segregation of two ecologically similar Peromyscus species was evaluated by reciprocal species-removal experiments during a year of peak density. The white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis, and cloudland deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus nubiterrae, are syntopic in southwest Virginia and are commonly trapped aboveground in mixed deciduous forest. Patterns of arboreal habitat use and levels of arboreal activity were determined for both species before the removal experiments. During the summer and fall of 1981, six live-trapping grids, equipped with both ground and aboveground traps, were randomly allocated as control, leucopus removal, or maniculatus removal grids. On all grids, maniculatus used arboreal habitat more extensively than leucopus. Overall, 48% of 1357 maniculatus captures, but only 24% of 2270 leucopus captures, were in aboveground traps. Before removals, both species occupied structurally similar arboreal habitat, and following removals we detected no shifts in arboreal habitat use that would indicate competitive release by the unmanipulated species. Removals also had no effect on the degree of individual arboreal activity shown by the remaining species.Both before and after removals, maniculatus consistently showed more arboreal activity than leucopus for all treatments. While maniculatus significantly increased the number of arboreal sites occupied in the absence of leucopus, and encroached substantially on arboreal habitat formerly used by its congener, this expanded arboreal habitat use occurred in the absence of any numerical increase or change in activity levels. We attribute it to the greater arboreal orientation of maniculatus and opportunistic use of arboreal habitat in areas of former range overlap with leucopus. The experiments suggest that differential use of arboreal habitat by these species results from differences in their behavioral responses to vertical habitat, and is independent of dynamic competitive interactions.

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“…Burrows were then spatially distributed based on a gamma distribution of distances from the wetland generated from field data of gopher tortoise observations (alpha = 1.108, lambda = 487.9211; Marshall et al, 2022). Temporary refuges were randomly located in the landscape at a density of either "None" (no temporary refuges), "Low" (5 per ha), "Medium" (15 per ha), or "High" (30 per ha) based on literature values of oldfield mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) abundance and burrow construction (Sumner and Karol, 1929;Davenport, 1964;O'Farrell et al, 1977;Klein and Layne, 1978;Mabry et al, 2003;Morris et al, 2011) and consultation with an expert (SB Castleberry, personal communication). Vegetation within pine savannas can vary from complete cover (100%) to bare (0%) depending on soils as well as historical and current land-use and management (Kirkman et al, 2004;Van Lear et al, 2005).…”

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Estimating the potential drivers of dispersal outcomes for juvenile gopher frogs (Rana capito) using agent-based models

Burrow

McEntire²,

Maerz³

2023

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Among mobile terrestrial animals, movement among microsites can allow individuals to behaviorally moderate their body temperatures and rates of water loss, which can have important consequences for activity times, growth, fecundity, and survival. Ground-layer vegetation can change the availability and variability of microclimates; however, gaps in our understanding of how individuals interact with the microclimates created by vegetation limit our ability to inform management actions for wildlife. Amphibians can simultaneously balance operant body temperatures and water loss and the availability of heterogeneous microclimates should moderate how effectively they are able to do so. However, relatively few studies have attempted to mechanistically demonstrate how ground vegetation-driven effects on microclimatic variation may affect amphibian performance and survival. Agent-based modeling (ABM) can incorporate behavior and other mechanisms to understand how animals interact with their environments to result in larger scale patterns. They are effective for exploring alternative scenarios and representing the uncertainty in systems. Here, we use ABMs to integrate field and laboratory measurements of movement behavior, physiology, and plant effects on near-ground microclimate to explore how ground vegetation and the availability of terrestrial refugia may affect the survival and terrestrial distributions of juvenile gopher frogs (Rana capito) under two weather regimes. We also examine how assumptions regarding micro-scale movement (< 1 m2) affect the influence of ground vegetation on survival and settlement within refugia. While all variables affected settlement and survival, our models predict that inter-annual variation in weather and the density and spatial distribution of permanent refugia likely have the greatest influence on juvenile survival. The benefit of increased ground vegetation was dependent on the reasonable assumption that gopher frogs exhibit microclimate habitat selection throughout the day and night to limit water loss. Our models suggest that vegetation would be most beneficial to amphibians under warmer weather regimes provided there is sufficient rainfall.

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Nesting Behavior in Four Species of Mice

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Winter Acclimatization in Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis, P. leucopus noveboracensis, and P. l. leucopus

Winter Acclimatization in Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis, P. leucopus noveboracensis, and P. l. leucopus

Vertical Stratification of Activity of Two Peromyscus Species: An Experimental Analysis

Estimating the potential drivers of dispersal outcomes for juvenile gopher frogs (Rana capito) using agent-based models

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