Some Effects of Flooding and Waterfowl Concentration on Mammals of a Refuge Area in Central Illinois

Yeager, Lee E.; Anderson, Harry G.

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“…Artificial levees also may provide shelter for mice and shrews (Verhey 1957) and for muskrats, woodchucks, opossums, raccoons, and other mediumsized mammals (Yeager and Anderson 1944) . Artificial levees also may provide shelter for mice and shrews (Verhey 1957) and for muskrats, woodchucks, opossums, raccoons, and other mediumsized mammals (Yeager and Anderson 1944) .…”

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“…The natural levees along the Kafue provide shelter for some small mammals, except in the highest floods. Artificial levees also may provide shelter for mice and shrews (Verhey 1957) and for muskrats, woodchucks, opossums, raccoons, and other mediumsized mammals (Yeager and Anderson 1944) . In the flood reported by Misonne and Verschuren (1966) the rodents took refuge on termite mounds and other exposed ground.…”

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Patterns of Use of a Flood Plain by Zambian Mammals

Sheppe¹,

Osborne²

1971

Ecological Monographs

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Every year the Kafue River, one of the main tributaries of the Zambezi River in Zambia, floods a broad level area, the Kafue Flats, to a depth of up to 5 m for several months. The flats are 235 km long and up to 40 km wide. The life of the flats is conditioned primarily by the alternating rainy and dry seasons and by the floods. About 80 cm of rain falls from November to April. The Kafue rises slowly during the rains, is highest in May, and falls during the latter part of the dry season. Vegetation is composed primarily of grasses, especially Oryza barthii. Because of the abundant water the primary productivity of the flats is much greater than that of the surrounding woodlands. Secondary productivity also is high. Every year there is an alternation of aquatic and terrestrial faunas. During the floods fish move onto the flats from the Kafue, and most spawning takes place there. Terrestrial species are driven off, but as the floods recede they reoccupy the flood plain and use what is by far the best grazing in the region. Large mammals find shelter in tall stands of grass, small mammals in the thick mat of vegetation that covers much of the ground or in the deeply cracked soil. There is a gradient in use of the flood plain: some species (hippopotamus, otter) always stay near the river at low water, others (lechwe, zebra, wildebeest) go for varying distances onto it, and more than half of the mammals (kudu, squirrel, vervet, aardvark) go onto it little if at all. Failure to use the flood plain seems to be due to absence of suitable habitats or food, rather than exclusion by the floods. The most abundant large mammal on the flood plain is the lechwe, the only terrestrial ungulate that sometimes feeds in the floodwaters. Several shrews and mice, especially Mastomys natalensis, are common on the food plain and breed there during the rains. During the floods they leave the flood plain or take refuge on natural levees along the Kafue. Large populations of water birds are common. Crocodile and monitor live near the water's edge and move in and out with the floods like the hippopotamus. Some snakes are common on the flats, but turtles and frogs are not. Although ants and termites are abundant in the surrounding region, they are largely excluded from the flats by the floods.

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Patterns of Use of a Flood Plain by Zambian Mammals

Sheppe¹,

Osborne²

1971

Ecological Monographs

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“…Because of the difficulty in predicting when and where a flood will occur, the majority of information gathered on the topic was not acquired as part of a designed project, but instead the result of studies that were in progress when flooding occurred-as was the case with our investigation. Most published information on the topic is based on studies and observations of small mammals (Anderson et al 2000;Batzli 1977;McCarley 1959;Stickel 1948;Wijnhoven et al 2006;Williams et al 2001;Yeager and Anderson 1944) with the exception of opossums (Didelphis virginiana; Yeager and Anderson 1944), raccoons (Procyon lotor; Gehrt et al 1993;Yeager and Anderson 1944), and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus; Samuel and Glazener 1970).…”

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“…Regardless of their capability to recolonize an area, we have no substantive information from which to explain the increased rate of detections that occurred during 2009. Primary prey items may have been depleted and slow to recover (Wijnhoven et al 2006), causing fishers to more actively move in search of food (e.g., carcasses of fish that became stranded when flood waters rescinded or other of animals that perished during the flood; see Yeager and Anderson 1944) and, thus, more frequently encounter and be attracted to detection sites. Alternatively, the population is newly established (within the last 10 years) and appears to be in the stage of rapid growth (Bolen and Robinson 2003;Klein 1968), in which case, the increased detection rates in 2009 could be a representation of that growth.…”

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Persistence of fishers in riparian forests in North Dakota, USA following a severe flood event

2011

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Historically, the distribution of fishers (Martes pennanti) in North America included portions of eastern North Dakota, USA; however, the population was reported to have become extirpated by the early 1900s. Verified reports, road-killed and incidentally trapped individuals, indicate that fishers have been re-establishing populations in riparian forests (the only areas with substantive forest cover in the region) over the last 10 years. During the summers of 2008 (

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“…However, destructive flooding may result in high mortality in fish, amphibian, and mammal communities (Blair 1939, Yeager and Anderson 1944, McCarley 1959, Turner 1966, Harrell 1978, Real et al 1993. In areas of short-lived flooding, animals are typically able to evade the negative effects of flooding, causing increased survival rates.…”

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Application of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis to flooding

Crandall¹,

Hayes²,

Ackland³

2003

Community Ecology

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We examine literature on flooding as a disturbance on both sessile and mobile organisms. The limitations and assumptions of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH) are identified and examined. We conclude that research on plants supports the IDH. In contrast, mobile invertebrates and vertebrates rarely support the hypothesis. Therefore, we strongly encourage investigators to consider explanations beyond the IDH when explaining community dynamics following floods.Abbreviation: IDH-Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis.

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Some Effects of Flooding and Waterfowl Concentration on Mammals of a Refuge Area in Central Illinois

Cited by 7 publications

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Patterns of Use of a Flood Plain by Zambian Mammals

Patterns of Use of a Flood Plain by Zambian Mammals

Persistence of fishers in riparian forests in North Dakota, USA following a severe flood event

Application of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis to flooding

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