ArticleBMC ecology2019
Phase- and season-dependent changes in social behaviour in cyclic vole populations.
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- A highly contiguous genome assembly for the California vole, Microtus californicus, provides insight into phylogenetic relationships and patterns of synteny among voles.The Journal of heredity · 2026Article
- Effect of Resource Abundance on Woodland Rodents' Demography at Latitudinal Extremes in Europe.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Lemming and Vole Cycles: A New Intrinsic Model.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Exploring patterns of female house mouse spatial organisation among outbreaking and stable populations.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Identification of PathogenicPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Fear the reaper: ungulate carcasses may generate an ephemeral landscape of fear for rodents.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial behaviour has been linked to hypotheses explaining multiannual population cycles of small rodents. In this paper we aimed to test empirically that the degree of space sharing among adult breeding female voles is higher during the increase phase than in the crash phase, and that the degree of sociality is positively related to population growth rate as suggested by Lambin and Krebs (Oikos 61:126-132, 1991) and Andreassen et al. (Oikos 122:507-515, 2013). We followed 24 natural bank vole Myodes glareolus populations over an area of 113 km
resultsUsing spatially explicit capture-recapture models, we modelled the overlap in adult female home ranges and total population growth rate per season. We identified an increase phase before and during the peak density observation and a crash phase following the peak. Female home range overlap were seasonal- and phase-dependent, while population growth rate was associated with season and female home range overlap. High female home range overlap in the increase phase corresponded to a high population growth rate.
conclusionsWe suggest that intrinsic social behaviour plays a key role in the increase phase of vole population cycles, as social behaviour leads to an increased growth rate, whereas extrinsic factors (predation and/or food) initiate the crash phase. Our results are consistent with those of other studies in a variety of small rodent species.
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