Limitation of collared lemming populations during a population cycle

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 382-398

  Wilson, Deborah J ^a,b   Krebs, Charles J ^a   Sinclair, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; LIMITING FACTOR; POPULATION CYCLE; PREDATION; RODENT;

CANADA; KENT PENINSULA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ANIMALIA; DICROSTONYX; DICROSTONYX GROENLANDICUS; DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032740258     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546754     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Agrell, J., Erlinge, S., Nelson, J. and Sandell, M. 1992. Body weight and population dynamics: cyclic demography in a noncyclic population of the field vole (Microtus agrestis). Can. J. Zool. 70: 494-501.
2. Akaike, H. 1974. A new look at statistical model identification. - IEEE transactions on automatic control AU-19: 716-722.
3. Batzli, G. O. 1985. The role of nutrition in population cycles of microtine rodents. - Acta Zool. Fenn. 173: 13-17.
4. Batzli, G. O., White, R. G., MacLean, S. F., Jr., Pitelka, F. A. and Collier, B. D. 1980. The herbivore-based trophic system. In: Brown, J., Miller, P. C., Tieszen, L. L. and Bunnell, F. L. (eds), An arctic ecosystem: the coastal tundra at Barrow, Alaska, Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross, Stroudsberg, PA, pp. 335-410.
5. Blackburn, G. S., Wilson, D. J. and Krebs, C. J. 1999. Dispersal of juvenile collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus) in a high-density population. - Can. J. Zool. 77: 1-7.
6. Boonstra, R. and Krebs, C. J. 1979. Viability of large- and small-sized adults in fluctuating vole populations. - Ecology 60: 567-573.
7. Brooks, R. J. and Banks, E. M. 1971. Radio-tracking study of lemming home range. - Comm. Behav. Biol. 6: 1-5.
8. Chernyavski, F. B. 1979. Population dynamics and population indices of Lemmus sibiricus and Dicrostonyx torquatus on the Vrangel Island. Zool. Zh. 58: 553-563 [in Russian with English summary].
9. Chitty, D. 1952. Mortality among voles (Microtus agrestis) at Lake Vyrnwy. Montgomeryshire, in 1936-1939. - Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 236: 505-552.
10. Chitty, D. 1960. Population processes in the vole and their relevance to general theory. - Can. J. Zool. 38: 99-113.
11. Chitty, H. and Chitty, D. 1962. Body weight in relation to population phase in Microtus agrestis. - Symposium Theriologicum, Brno, Czechoslovakia, pp. 77-86.
12. Cormack, R. M. 1964. Estimates of survival from the sighting of marked animals. Biometrika 51: 429-438.
13. Cotter, R. C. 1991. Population attributes and reproductive biology of rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) in the central Canadian arctic. - M.Sc. Thesis, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton.
14. Desy, E. A. and Batzli, G. O. 1989. Effects of food availability and predation on prairie vole demography: a field experiment. - Ecology 70: 411-421.
15. Dorogov, V. F. 1983. Nesting of the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) on Taimyr. - In: Ecology and rational use of land vertebrates of North Central Siberia. Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov Sibirsk Otdel. VASKhNIL. Novosibirsk, pp. 109-126 [in Russian].
16. Elton, C. S. 1942. Voles, mice and lemmings: problems in population dynamics. - Clarendon Press, Oxford
17. Erlinge, S. 1987. Predation and noncyclicity in a microtine population in southern Sweden. Oikos 50: 347-352.
18. Errington P. L., 1946. Predation and vertebrate populations. Q. Rev. Biol. 21: 144-177, 221-245.
19. Fitzgerald, B. M. 1977. Weasel predation on a cyclic population of the montane vole (Microtus montanus) in California. - J. Anim. Ecol. 46: 367-397.
20. Fuller, W. A., Martell, A. M., Smith, R. F. C. and Spellei, S. W. 1975a. High arctic lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus). I. Natural history observations. - Can. Field-Nat. 89: 223-233.
21. Fuller, W. A., Martell, A. M., Smith, R. F. C. and Speller, S. W. 1975b. High arctic lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus). II. Demography. - Can. J. Zool. 53: 867-878.
22. Henttonen, H., Oksanen, T., Jortikka, A. and Haukisalmi, V. 1987. How much do weasels shape microtine cycles in the northern Fennoscandian tundra? - Oikos 50: 353-365.
23. Heske, E. J., Ims, R. A. and Steen, H. 1993. Four experiments on a Norwegian subalpine microtine rodent assemblage during a summer decline. In: Stenseth, N. C. and Ims, R. A. (eds), The biology of lemmings. Academic Press, London, pp. 411-424.
24. Holling, C. S. 1959. The components of predation as revealed by a study of small-mammal predation on the European pine sawfly. - Can. Entomol. 91: 293-320.
25. Jolly, G. M. 1965. Explicit estimates from capture-recapture data with both death and immigration stochastic model. Biometrika 52: 225-247.
26. Korpimäki, E. 1993. Regulation of multiannual vole cycles by density-dependent avian and mammalian predation? Oikos 66: 359-363.
27. Korpimäki, E. and Norrdahl, K. 1998. Experimental reduction of predators reverses the crash phase of small-rodent cycles. - Ecology 79: 2448-2455.
28. Korpimäki, U., Norrdahl, K. and Rinta-Jaskari, T. 1991. Responses of stoats and least weasels to fluctuating food abundance: is the low phase of the vole cycle due to mustelid predation? Oecologia 88: 552-561.
29. Krebs, C. J. 1964a. The lemming cycle at Baker Lake. Northwest Territories, during 1959-1962. Arct. Inst. N. Am. Tech. Pap. 15.
30. Krebs, C. J. 1964b. Cyclic variation in skull-body regressions of lemmings. - Can. J. Zool. 42: 631-643.
31. Krebs, C. J. 1989. Ecological methodology. HarperColhns, New York.
32. Krebs, C. J., Keller, B. L. and Tamarin, R. H. 1969. Microtus population biology: demographic changes in fluctuating populations of M. ochrogaster and M. pennsylvanicus in southern Indiana. Ecology 50: 587-607.
33. Krebs, C. J., Boonstra, R. and Kenney, A. J. 1995. Population dynamics of the collared lemming and the tundra vole at Pearce Point, Northwest Territories, Canada. - Oecologia 103: 481-489.
34. Lee, E. T. 1980. Statistical methods for survival data analysis. - Lifetime Learning Publ., Belmont, CA.
35. Lidicker, W. Z. and Ostfeld, R. S. 1991. Extra-large body size in California voles: causes and fitness consequences. -Oikos 61: 108-121.
36. Lima, S. L. and Dill, L. M. 1990. Behavioural decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus. Can. J. Zool. 68: 619-640.
37. MacLean, S. F., Jr., Fitzgerald, B. M. and Pitelka, F. A. 1974. Population cycles in arctic lemmings: winter reproduction and predation by weasels. - Arct. Alp. Res. 6: 1-12.
38. Maher, W. J. 1967. Predation by weasels on a winter population of lemmings, Banks Island. Northwest Territories. Can. Field-Nat. 81: 248-250.
39. Maher, W. J. 1970. The pomarine jaeger as a brown lemming predator in northern Alaska. Wilson Bull. 82: 130-157.
40. Malcolm, J. R. and Brooks, R. J. 1993. Cyclic variation in skull-body regressions of collared lemmings: differential representation of seasonal cohorts. - In: Stenseth, N. C. and Ims, R. A. (eds), The biology of lemmings. Academic Press, London, pp. 135-155.
41. Mallory, F. F., Elliott, J. R. and Brooks, R. J. 1981. Changes in body size in fluctuating populations of the collared lemming: age and pholoperiod influences. Can. J. Zool. 59: 174-182.
42. Mangel, M. and Clark, C. W. 1988. Dynamic modelling in behavioural ecology. - Academic Press, Princeton. NJ.
43. Marcström, V., Kenward, R. E. and Engren, E. 1988. The impact of predation on boreal tetraonids during vole cycles: an experimental study. - J. Anim. Ecol. 57: 859-872.
44. Morris, D. W., Davidson, D. L. and Krebs, C. J. Measuring the ghost of competition: insights from density-dependent habitat selection on the coexistence and dynamics of lemmings. - Evol. Ecol. Res., in press.
45. Norrdahl, K. and Korpimäki, E. 1995a. Mortality factors in a cyclic vole population. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 261: 49-53.
46. Norrdahl, K. and Korpimäki, E. 1995b. Effects of predator removal on vertebrate prey populations: birds of prey and small mammals. - Oecologia 103: 241-248.
47. Otis, D. L., Burnham, K., P., White, G. C. and Anderson, D. R. 1978. Statistical inference from capture data on closed animal populations. - Wildl. Monogr. 62: 1-135.
48. Pitelka, F. A. 1973. Cyclic patterns in lemming populations near Barrow, Alaska, - In: Britton, M. E. (ed.). 'Alaskan arctic tundra.' Arct. Inst. N. Am. Tech. Pap. 25, pp. 199-215.
49. Pollock, K. H. 1982. A capture-recapture design robust to unequal probabilities of capture. J. Wildl. Manaue. 46: 757-760.
50. Pollock, K. H., Winterstein, S. R., Bunck, C. M. and Curtis, P. D. 1989. Survival analysis in telemetry studies: the staggered entry design. - J. Wildl. Manage. 53: 7-15.
51. Pollock, K. H., Nichols, J. D., Brownie, C. and Hines, J. E. 1990. Statistical inference for capture-recapture experiments. - Wildl. Monogr. 107: 1-97.
52. Poole, K. G. and Boag, D. A. 1988. Ecology of gyrfalcons, Falco rusticolus, in the central Canadian Arctic: diet and feeding behaviour. - Can. J. Zool. 66: 334-344.
53. Reid, D. G. and Krebs, C. J. 1996. Limitations to collared lemming population growth in winter. - Can. J. Zool. 74: 1284-1291.
54. Reid, D. G., Krebs., C. J. and Kenney, A. 1995. Limitation of collared lemming population growth at low densities by predation mortality. - Oikos 73: 387-398.
55. Reid, D. G., Krebs, C. J. and Kenney, A. J. 1997. Patterns of predation on non-cyclic lemmings. - Ecol. Monogr. 67: 89-108.
56. Rexstad, E. and Burnham, K. P. 1991. User's Guide for Interactive Program CAPTURE. Colorado Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO [Online]. Available at http: mercury. bio.uaf.edu∼biolwild.organizations courses 97wilf625. captframe.htm [19 January 1999].
57. Rodgers, A. R. and Lewis, M. C. 1986. Diet selection in arctic lemmings: demography, home range, and habitat use. -Can. J. Zool. 64: 2717-2727.
58. Scott, P. A. 1993. Relationship between the onset of winter and collared lemming abundance at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada: 1932-1990. Arctic 46: 293-296.
59. Sober, G. A. F. 1965. A note on the multiple recapture census. - Biometrika 52: 249-259.
60. Shelford, V. E. 1943. The abundance of the collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (Tr.) var. richardsoni Mer.) in the Churchill area, 1929 to 1940. - Ecology 24: 472-484.
61. Sinclair, A. R. E. 1989. Population regulation in mammals. -In: Cherrett, J. M (ed.). Ecological concepts. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, pp. 197-241.
62. Sittler, B. 1995. Response of stoats (Mustela erminea) to a fluctuating lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus) population in North East Greenland: preliminary results from a long-term study. - Ann. Zool. Fenn. 32: 79-92.
63. Sokal, R. R. and Rohlf, F. J. 1995. Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research. 3rd ed. - Freeman, New York.
64. Solomon, M. E. 1949. The natural control of animal populations. - J. Anim. Ecol. 18: 1-35.
65. Statistical Sciences. 1995. S-PLUS guide to statistical and mathematical analysis. Ver. 3.3. - StatSci, a division of MathSoft, Inc., Seattle, WA.
66. Steen, H. 1995. Untangling the causes of disappearance from a local population of root voles (Microtus oeconomus): a test of the regional synchrony hypothesis. Oikos 73: 65-72.
67. Steen, H., Holst, J. C. Solhoy, T., Bjerga, M., Klaussen, E., Prestegård, I. and Sundt., R. C. 1997. Mortality of lemmings (Lemmus lemmus) at peak density in a mountainous area of Norway. - J. Zool. 243: 831-835.
68. Stenseth, N. C. and Ims, R. A. 1993. Population dynamics of lemmings: temporal and spatial variation - an introduction. - In: Stenseth, N. C. and Ims, R. A. (eds), The biology of lemmings. Academic Press, London, pp. 61-96.
69. Taitt, M. J. and Krebs, C. J. 1985. Population dynamics and cycles. In: Tamarin, R. H. (ed.), Biology of New World Microtus. American Society of Mammalogists, pp. 567-620.
70. Tamarin, R. H., Reich, L. M. and Moyer, C. A. 1984. Meadow vole cycles within fences. - Can. J. Zool. 62: 1796-1804.
71. Underhill, R. P., Prys-Jones, R. P., Syroechkovski, E. E., Jr., Groen, N. M., Karpov, V., Lappo, H. G., van Roomen, M. W. J., Rybkin, A., Schekkerman, H., Spiekman, H. and Summers, R. W. 1993. Breeding of waders (Charadrii) and brent geese Branta bernicla bernicla at Pronchisheheva Lake, northeastern Taimyr. Russia, in a peak and a decreasing lemming year. - Ibis 135: 277-292.
72. White, G. C. 1998. Program MARK [Online]. Available at http: www.cnr.colostate.edu∼gwhite mark mark.htm [28 June 1998].
73. White, G. C. and Bennetts, R. E. 1996. Analysis of frequency count data usine the negative binomial distribution. -Ecology 77: 2549-2557.
74. Wilson, D. J. 1999. Effects of predation on the population dynamics of lemmings and on loss of goose nests. - PhD Thesis. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver.