Trap-Response Heterogeneity of House Mice (Mus musculus) in Outdoor Enclosures

Drickamer, Lee C.; Feldhamer, George A.; Mikesic, David G.; Holmes, Christopher

doi:10.2307/1383289

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“…First, CMR studies in house mice are hampered by low recapture rates that vary over time, between individuals, between locations and according to capture history (Crowcroft & Jeffers, 1961; Gérard, Bauchau & Smets, 1994; Drickamer et al ., 1999). Consequently, CMR studies have relatively small sample sizes and even fewer observed movements.…”

Section: Methods For Studying Dispersalmentioning

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Dispersal in house mice

Pocock¹,

Hauffe²,

Searle³

2005

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

150

143

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This review evaluates direct (live-trapping) and indirect (genetic) methods to study dispersal in wild house mice ( Mus musculus ) and summarizes field and experimental data to examine the causes and consequences of dispersal. Commensal house mice (associated with human habitations, farms, food stores and other anthropogenic habitats) typically show lower rates of dispersal than feral house mice (living in crops, natural and semi-natural habitats). However, early claims of long-term fine-scale genetic structure in commensal house mice (due to low rates of dispersal) are not supported by recent data. Dispersal becomes obligatory when habitat conditions deteriorate, but most dispersal occurs below the local environmental carrying capacity and is due to social interactions with conspecifics. Excursions are relatively frequent and probably allow mice to assess the quality of habitats before dispersing. Young males have the greatest tendency to disperse, apparently prompted mainly by aggressive interactions with dominant males. If they do disperse, females integrate into new groups more easily than do males. Dispersing house mice risk loss of condition or death, but may gain reproductive opportunities on arrival in a new location. House mice can be transported passively as stowaways with humans; this contributes to population persistence and genetic structure at regional scales and has allowed house mice to spread world-wide.

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Section: Methods For Studying Dispersalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dispersal in house mice

Pocock¹,

Hauffe²,

Searle³

2005

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

150

143

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“…Acknowledged sources of variation in recapture probability generally fall into two categories, both of which may be present in any given field study [10]: ( i ) extrinsic factors such as weather [11], [12], capture site [13], capture method [14]–[19], tag loss [20], or observer-related effects [21], [22], and ( ii ) intrinsic morphological and behavioral characteristics, commonly referred to as “individual heterogeneity,” such as age [23]–[26], sex [24], [27], [28], social rank [29], social community and site fidelity [30], foraging strategy [31], body size or condition [32]–[35], time spent at a location [36], size of the study area relative to the movement of marked individuals [37], [38], or breeding stage [13], [39]–[41]. It has also been proposed that consistent individual differences in behavior (commonly referred to as “personality”) lead to capture heterogeneity [42].…”

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Recapture Heterogeneity in Cliff Swallows: Increased Exposure to Mist Nets Leads to Net Avoidance

Roche

Brown

et al. 2013

PLoS ONE

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Ecologists often use mark-recapture to estimate demographic variables such as abundance, growth rate, or survival for samples of wild animal populations. A common assumption underlying mark-recapture is that all animals have an equal probability of detection, and failure to meet or correct for this assumption–as when certain members of the population are either easier or more difficult to capture than other animals–can lead to biased and inaccurate demographic estimates. We built within-year and among-years Cormack-Jolly-Seber recaptures-only models to identify causes of capture heterogeneity for a population of colonially nesting cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) caught using mist-netting as a part of a 20-year mark-recapture study in southwestern Nebraska, U.S.A. Daily detection of cliff swallows caught in stationary mist nets at their colony sites declined as the birds got older and as the frequency of netting at a site within a season increased. Experienced birds’ avoidance of the net could be countered by sudden disturbances that startled them into a net, such as when we dropped a net over the side of a bridge or flushed nesting cliff swallows into a stationary net positioned at a colony entrance. Our results support the widely held, but seldom tested, belief that birds learn to avoid stationary mist nets over time, but also show that modifications of traditional field methods can reduce this source of recapture heterogeneity.

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“…Many factors have been forwarded to explain HC, e.g., sex (Tavecchia et al 2001), and age (Lebreton et al 1992;Davis et al 2003;. Also, more recent works have shown that, beyond these relatively conspicuous biological differences among individuals, there are other factors more challenging to examine, e.g., breeding status of colonial seabirds (Cam et al 2002;Grosbois and Thompson 2005) or ''social status'' of mammals (Summerlin and Wolfe 1973;Drickhamer et al 1999;Ogutu et al 2004) which create HC as well. What makes these factors difficult to study is the fact that the differences among individuals are often cryptic, i.e., not linked to a criterion obvious to the human observer in the field but rather to subtle, behavioral clues.…”

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Is heterogeneity of catchability in capture–recapture studies a mere sampling artifact or a biologically relevant feature of the population?

et al. 2008

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The heterogeneity of catchability (HC) among the individuals encountered during a capture-recapture study has long been regarded as a liability. However, heterogeneous capture probabilities may reflect interesting but hidden features of the population, such as social status. The difficulty is to distinguish between this intrinsic heterogeneity and the extrinsic heterogeneity induced by the study itself. So far, population ecologists have not been able to distinguish between these two sources of variation in capture heterogeneity because, in the presence of heterogeneity of capture in the data, they have frequently used a too simple approach. This traditional approach, which consists of incorporating two common sources of lack of fit (transience and trap-dependence), does not directly model the HC and thus cannot investigate its biological meaning. In this context, we propose, for open populations, to directly model the HC by employing multievent models. Multievent models make it possible to break HC into two classes of catchability viewed as uncertain states. With the introduction of a coefficient of heterogeneity to model proportional probabilities of capture over time in the two classes, our approach allows the investigation of HC in a parsimonious way. In this paper, we apply both this new approach and the traditional approach to a long-term data set of male deer mice Peromyscus maniculatus. We then compare 13 candidate models separately for each approach.Our results indicate that the new approach is superior to the traditional approach.

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Trap-Response Heterogeneity of House Mice (Mus musculus) in Outdoor Enclosures

Cited by 33 publications

References 18 publications

Dispersal in house mice

Dispersal in house mice

Recapture Heterogeneity in Cliff Swallows: Increased Exposure to Mist Nets Leads to Net Avoidance

Is heterogeneity of catchability in capture–recapture studies a mere sampling artifact or a biologically relevant feature of the population?

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