Reproductive output of female mouflon (Ovis gmelini musimon x Ovis sp.): A comparative analysis

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Garel, Mathieu ^a,b   Cugnasse, Jean Marc ^b   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^a   Loison, Anne ^a   Gibert, Philippe ^b   Douvre, Philippe ^c   Dubray, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^c Immeuble le Sud ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Age at first reproduction; Body mass; Crossbreeding; Ovis gmelini musimon x Ovis sp.; Twinning rate

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; TWINNING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON; OVIS GMELINI; OVIS SP.;

EID: 20044366206     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836905006667     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Arihan, O. & Bilgin, C. C. (2001). Population biology and conservation of the Turkish mouflon (Ovis gmelini anatolica Valenciennes, 1856). In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mouflon: 31-36. Nahlik, A. & Uloth, W. (Eds). Sopron, Hungary: Institute of Wildlife Management.
2. Barone, R. (1978). Anatomie comparée des mammifères domestiques III. Lyon: Ecole National Vétérinaire de Lyon.
3. Baudière, A. (1970). Recherches phytogéographiques sur la bordure méridionale du Massif Central français (Les Monts de l'Espinouse). PhD Thesis, Université de Montpellier, France.
4. Berger, J. (1982). Female breeding age and lamb survival in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). Mammalia 46: 183-190.
5. Berger, J. (1992). Facilitation of reproductive synchrony by gestation adjustment in gregarious mammals: a new hypothesis. Ecology 73: 323-329.
6. Bérubé, C. H., Festa-Bianchet, M. & Jorgenson, J. T. (1999). Individual differences, longevity, and reproductive senescence in bighorn ewes. Ecology 80: 2255-2565.
7. Bon, R., Cugnasse, J.-M., Dubray, D., Gibert, P., Houard, T. & Rigaud, P. (1991). Le mouflon de Corse. Rev. Ecol. 6(Suppl.): 67-110.
8. Bon, R., Dardaillon, M. & Estevez, I. (1993). Mating and lambing periods as related to age of female mouflon. J. Mammal. 74: 752-757.
9. Bonenfant, C., Gaillard, J. M., Klein, F. & Loison, A. (2002). Sex- and age-dependent effects of population density on life-history traits of red deer Cervus elpahus in a temperate forest. Ecography 25: 446-458.
10. Boussès, P. & Réale, D. (1998). Biology of twinning and origin of an unusually high twinning rate in an insular mouflon population. Z. Säugetierkd. 63: 147-153.
11. Briedermann, L. (1992). Ergebnisse von Untersuchungen zur Reproduktion des Mufflons (Ovis amon musimon). Z. Jagdwiss. 38: 16-25.
12. Chapuis, J.-L., Boussès, P., Pisanu, B. & Réale, D. (2001). Comparative rumen and fecal diet microhistological determinations of European mouflon. J. Range Manage. 54: 239-242.
13. Clutton-Brock, T. H., Price, O. F., Albon, S. D. & Jewell, P. A. (1991). Persistent instability and population regulation in Soay sheep. J. Anim. Ecol. 60: 593-608.
14. Conover, W. J. (1971). Practical nonparametric statistics. New York: Wiley.
15. Coté, S. D. & Festa-Bianchet, M. (2001). Birthdate, mass and survival in moutain goat kids: effects of maternal characteristics and forage quality. Oecologia (Berl.) 127: 230-248.
16. Cransac, N., Valet, G., Cugnasse, J.-M. & Rech, J. (1997). Seasonal diet of mouflon (Ovis gmelini): comparison of populations subunits and sex-age classes. Rev. Ecol. Terre Vie 52: 21-36.
17. Cugnasse, J.-M. (1994). Révision taxonomique des mouflons des îles méditerranéennes. Mammalia 3: 507-512.
18. Cugnasse, J.-M., Garcia, M. & Veyrac, T. (1985). Contribution à l'étude de la biologie de la reproduction du mouflon (Ovis ammon musimon), par examen post-mortem, dans le massif du Caroux-Espinouse. Bull. Mens. Off. Nat. Chass. 89: 33-35.
19. Cugnasse, J.-M. & Houssin, H. (1993). Acclimatation du mouflon en France: la contribution des réserves de l'Office national de la chasse. Bull. Mens. Off. Nat. Chass. 183: 26-37.
20. De Beaufort, F. (1970). Le mouflon des Bauges. Etude de la population. Bull. Spec. Cons. Sup. Chass. 14: 37-59.
21. Dubray, D. (1988). Abondance, structure et dynamique de la population de mouflons de Corse (Ovis amon musimon S.) du secteur est du massif du Cinto (Haute-Corse), et analyse du rôle de protection de la réserve de l'Office National de la Chasse d'Asco. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am. 19: 439-450.
22. Eccles, T. R. & Shackleton, D. M. (1979). Recent records of twinning in North American mountain sheep. J. Wildl. Manage. 43: 974-976.
23. Festa-Bianchet, M., Jorgenson, J. T., Lucherini, M. & Wishart, W. D. (1995). Life history consequences of variation in age of primiparity in bighorn ewes. Ecology 76: 871-881.
24. Festa-Bianchet, M. & Jorgenson, J. T. (1998). Selfish mothers: reproductive expenditure and resource availability in bighorn ewes. Behav. Ecol. 9: 144-150.
25. Gaillard, J.-M., Delorme, D., Boutin, J.-M., Laere, G. V., Boisaubert, B. & Pradel, R. (1993). Roe deer survival patterns: a comparative analysis of contrasting populations. J. Anim. Ecol. 62: 778-791.
26. Gaillard, J.-M., Festa-Bianchet, M. & Yoccoz, N. G. (1998). Population dynamics of large herbivores: variable recruitment with constant adult survival. Trend. Ecol. Evol. 13: 58-63.
27. Gaillard, J.-M., Festa-Bianchet, M., Yoccoz, N. G., Loison, A. & Toigo, C. (2000). Temporal variation in fitness components and population dynamics of large herbivores. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31: 367-393.
28. Gaillard, J.-M., Sempéré, A. J., Boutin, J.-M., Laere, G. V. & Boisaubert, B. (1992). Effects of age and body weight on the proportion of females breeding in a population of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). Can. J. Zool. 70: 1541-1545.
29. Gaillard, J.-M. & Yoccoz, N. G. (2003). Temporal variation in survival of mammals: a case of environmental canalization? Ecology 84: 3294-3306.
30. Garel, M., Loison, A., Gaillard, J.-M., Cugnasse, J.-M. & Maillard, D. (2004). The effects of a severe drought on mouflon lamb survival. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl.) 271: 5471-5473.
31. Geist, V. (1971). Mountain sheep. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
32. Gindre, R. (1979). Le mouflon en France. Bull. Mens. Off. Nat. Chass. 27: 21-23.
33. Hadjisterkotis, E. S. & Bider, J. R. (1993). Reproduction of Cyprus mouflon Ovis gmelini ophion in captivity and in the wild. Int. Zoo Yearb. 32: 125-131.
34. Harvey, P. H. & Zammuto, R. M. (1985). Patterns of mortality and age at first reproduction in natural populations of mammals. Science 315: 319-320.
35. Heroldova, M. (1988). Method of mouflon (Ovis musimon) diet research. Folia Zool. 37: 113-120.
36. Hewison, A. J. M. (1996). Variation in the fecundity of roe deer in Britain: effects of age and body weight. Acta Theriol. 41: 187-198.
37. Hewison, A. J. M. & Gaillard, J.-M. (2001). Phenotypic quality and senescence affect different components of reproductive output in roe deer. J. Anim. Ecol. 70: 600-608.
38. Hoefs, M. (1978). Twinning in Dall sheep. Can. Field-Nat. 92: 292-293.
39. Homolka, M. (1991). The diet of moufflon (Ovis musimon) in the mixed forest habitat of the Drahanska Vrcjovina higland. Folia Zool. 40: 193-201.
40. Ihaka, R. & Gentleman, R. (1996). R: a language for data analysis and graphics. J. Comp. Graph. Stat. 5: 299-314.
41. Land, R. B. (1978). Reproduction in young sheep: some genetic and environmental sources of variation. J. Reprod. Fertil. 52: 427-436.
42. Linnell, J. D. C. & Andersen, R. (1998). Timing and synchrony of birth in a hider species, the roe deer Capreolus capreolus. J. Zool. (Lond.) 244: 497-504.
43. Loison, A., Jullien, J.-M. & Menaut, P. (1999). Relationship between chamois and isard survival and variation in global and local climate regimes: contrasting examples from the Alps and Pyrenees. Ecol. Bull. 47: 126-136.
44. McCuthen, H. E. (1977). A minimum breeding age for a desert bighorn ewe. Southwest. Nat. 22: 153-155.
45. Michels, H., Decuypere, E. & Onagbesan, O. (2000). Litter size, ovulation rate and prenatal survival in relation to ewe body weight: genetic review. Small Ruminant Res. 38: 199-209.
46. Montgelard, C., Nguyen, T. C. & Dubray, D. (1994). Genetic variability in French populations of the Corisacan mouflon (Ovis ammon musimon): analysis of 2 blood proteins and red-cell blood groups. Genet. Sel. Evol. 26: 303-315.
47. Nahlik, A. (2001). Fecundity and survival of mouflon and factors affecting them. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mouflon: 22-30. Nahlik, A. & Uloth, W. (Eds). Sopron, Hungary: Institute of Wildlife Management.
48. Nichols, L. (1978). Dall sheep reproduction. J. Wildl. Manage. 42: 570-580.
49. Pfeffer, P. (1967). Le mouflon de Corse (Ovis ammon musimon Schreber, 1782). Position systématique, écologie et éthologie comparées. Mammalia 31(Suppl.): 1-262.
50. Réale, D., Boussès, P., Pisanu, B. & Chapuis, J.-L. (2000). Biannual reproductive cycle in the Kerguelen feral sheep population. J. Mammal. 81: 169-178.
51. Rieck, W. (1975). Muffelwildalter. In Brochure de l'association des chasseurs d'Allemagne Fédérale'. 1-10. Bonn: Deutscher Jagdschutz.
52. Rutberg, A. T. (1987). Adaptive hypotheses of birth synchrony in ruminants: an interspecific test. Am. Nat. 130: 692-710.
53. Ryder, M. L. (1983). Sheep and man. London: Duckworth.
54. Sadleir, R. M. F. S. (1969). The role of nutrition in the reproduction of wild mammals. J. Reprod. Fertil. Suppl. 6: 39-48.
55. Sæther, B.-E. & Heim, M. (1993). Ecological correlates of individual variation in age at maturity in female moose (Alces alces): the effects of environmental variability. J. Anim. Ecol. 62: 482-489.
56. Sæther, B.-E., Andersen, R., Hjeljord, O. & Heim, M. (1996). Ecological correlates of regional variation in life history of the moose Alces alces. Ecology 77: 1493-1500.
57. Sand, H. (1996). Life history patterns in female moose (Alces alces): the relationship between age, body size, fecundity and environmental conditions. Oecologia (Berl.) 106: 212-220.
58. Sand, H. & Cederlund, G. (1996). Individual and geographical variation in age at maturity in female moose (Alces alces). Can. J. Zool. 74: 954-964.
59. Schaller, G. B. (1977). Mountain monarchs. Wild sheep and goats of the Himalaya. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
60. Spalding, D. J. (1966). Twinning in bighorn sheep. J. Wildl. Manage. 30: 207.
61. Thiebaut, B. (1971). La transition climatique dans le massif de l'Agoût. Vie Milieu 22: 167-206.
62. Türcke, F. & Schmincke, S. (1965). Das Muffelwild. Naturgeschichte. Hamburg: Paul Parey.
63. Uloth, W. (1972). To the history of the distribution, introduction and crossbreeding on the tyrrhenis mouflon in Europe and overseas. Acta Theriol. 17: 412-413.
64. Valdez, R. (1976). Fecundity of wild sheep (Ovis orientalis) in Iran. J. Mammal. 57: 762-763.
65. Venables, W. N. & Ripley, B. D. (2002). Modern applied statistics with S. 4th edn. New York: Springer.
66. Weller, K. E. (2001). The status of mouflon (Ovis musimon) in Europe. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mouflon: 114-140. Nahlik, A. & Uloth, W. (Eds). Sopron, Hungary: Institute of Wildlife Management.