Selection of drey sites by Abert's squirrels in an introduced population

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1220-1226

  Edelman, Andrew J ^a,b   Koprowski, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Bolus nest; Exotic species; Mt. Graham red squirrel; Nest site selection; Obligate; Pinale o Mountains; Sciurus aberti; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis; Tassel eared squirrel

Indexed keywords

HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEST SITE; RODENT; SITE SELECTION;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; ABIES LASIOCARPA ARIZONICA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS PONDEROSA; PINUS STROBIFORMIS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS ABERTI; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS GRAHAMENSIS;

EID: 30344445342     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/04-MAMM-A-029R1.1     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. ANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE. 1998. Guidelines for the capture, handling, and care of mammals as approved by the American Society of Mammalogists. Journal of Mammalogy 79:1416-1431.
2. BROWN, D. E. 1984. Arizona's tree squirrels. Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix.
3. BURNS, R. M., AND B. H. HONKALA. 1990. Silvics of North America: 1. conifers; 2. hardwoods. United States Forest Service, Washington, D.C., Agriculture Handbook 654:1-377.
4. CARROLL, S. P., AND C. BOYD. 1992. Host race radiation in the soapberry bug: natural history with the history. Evolution 46:1053-1069.
5. DAVIS, R., AND D. E. BROWN. 1988. Documentation of the transplanting of Abert's squirrels. Southwestern Naturalist 33:490-492.
6. DIETERICH, J. H. 1983. Fire history of southwestern mixed conifer: a case study. Forest Ecology and Management 6:13-31.
7. EDELMAN, A. J., AND J. L. KOPROWSKI. 2005a. Introduced Abert's squirrels in the Pinaleño Mountains: a review of their natural history and potential impacts on the red squirrel. In Proceedings of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel symposium (H. R. Sanderson and J. L. Koprowski, eds.). University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
8. EDELMAN, A. J., AND J. L. KOPROWSKI. 2005. Diet and tree use of Abert's squirrels (Sciurus aberti) in a mixed-conifer forest. Southwestern Naturalist. 50:461-465.
9. EDELMAN, A. J., AND J. L. KOPROWSKI. 2005b. Characteristics of Abert's squirrel (Sciurus aberti) cavity nests. Southwestern Naturalist.
10. FANCY, S. G. 1980. Nest-tree selection by red squirrels in a boreal forest. Canadian Field-Naturalist 94:198.
11. FARENTINOS, R. C. 1972. Nests of the tassel-eared squirrel. Journal of Mammalogy 53:900-903.
12. FERNER, J. W. 1974. Habitat relationships of Tamiasciurus hudsonicus and Sciurus aberti in the Rocky Mountains. Southwestern Naturalist 18:470-473.
13. FOX, L. R., AND P. A. MORROW. 1981. Specialization: species property or local phenomenon? Science 211:887-893.
14. GOHEEN, J. R., R. K. SWIHART, AND J. H. ROBINS. 2003. The anatomy of a range expansion: changes in cranial morphology and rates of energy extraction for North American red squirrels from different latitudes. Oikos 102:33-44.
15. GURNELL, J. 1987. The natural history of squirrels. Facts on File, New York.
16. HACKETT, H. M., AND J. F. PAGELS. 2003. Nest site characteristics of the endangered northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) in southwest Virginia. American Midland Naturalist 150:321-331.
17. HALL, J. G. 1981. A field study of the Kaibab squirrel in Grand Canyon National Park. Wildlife Monographs 75:1-54.
18. HALLORAN, M. E., AND M. BEKOFF. 1994. Nesting behavior of Abert squirrels (Sciurus aberti). Ethology 97:236-248.
19. HOFFMEISTER, D. F. 1956. Mammals of the Graham (Pinaleno) Mountains, Arizona. American Midland Naturalist 55:257-288.
20. HOFFMEISTER, D. F. 1971. Mammals of Grand Canyon. University of Illinois Press, Chicago.
21. HUTTON, K. A., J. L. KOPROWSKI, V. L. GREER, M. I. ALANEN, C. A. SCHAUFFERT, AND P. J. YOUNG. 2003. Use of mixed-conifer and spruce-fir forests by an introduced population of Abert's squirrels (Sciurus aberti). Southwestern Naturalist 48:257-260.
22. JOHNSTON, R. F., AND R. K. SELANDER. 1971. Evolution in the house sparrow. II. Adaptive differentiation in North American populations. Evolution 25:1-28.
23. JONES, J. R. 1974. Silviculture of southwestern mixed conifers and aspen: the status of our knowledge. United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, Research Paper RM-122:1-44.
24. KANTOLA, A. T., AND S. R. HUMPHREY. 1990. Habitat use by Sherman's fox squirrel (Sciurus niger shermani) in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 71:411-419.
25. KEITH, J. O. 1965. The Abert squirrel and its dependence on ponderosa pine. Ecology 46:150-163.
26. KOPROWSKI, J. L. 2002. Handling tree squirrels with a safe and efficient restraint. Wildlife Society Bulletin 30:101-103.
27. KREBS, C. J. 1998. Ecological methodology. Pearson Benjamin Cummings, Menlo Park, California.
28. LEVER, C. 1994. Naturalized animals: the ecology of successfully introduced species. T & A D Poyser, London, United Kingdom.
29. LOMOLINO, M. V., J. H. BROWN, AND R. DAVIS. 1989. Island biogeography of montane forest mammals in the American Southwest. Ecology 70:180-194.
30. LOSOS, J. B., T. W. SCHOENER, K. I. WARHEIT, AND D. CREER. 2001. Experimental studies of adaptive differentiation in Bahamian Anolis lizards. Genetica 112:399-415.
31. LOSOS, J. B., K. I. WARHEIT, AND T. W. SCHOENER. 1997. Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards. Nature 387:70-73.
32. MANLY, B. F. J., L. L. MCDONALD, D. L. THOMAS, T. L. MCDONALD, AND W. P. ERICKSON. 2002. Resource selection by animals: statistical design and analysis for field studies. 2nd ed. Kluwer Academic Press Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
33. MAROHASY, J. 1996. Host shifts in biological weed control: real problems, semantic difficulties or poor science? International Journal of Pest Management 42:71-75.
34. MCGARIGAL, K., S. CUSHMAN, AND S. STAFFORD. 2000. Multivariate statistics for wildlife and ecology research. Springer, New York.
35. MENZEL, J. M., W. M. FORD, J. W. EDWARDS, AND M. A. MENZEL. 2004. Nest tree use by the endangered Virginia northern flying squirrel in the central Appalachian Mountains. American Midland Naturalist 151:355-368.
36. MINCKLEY, W. L. 1968. Possible extirpation of the spruce squirrel from the Pinaleno (Graham) Mountains, south-central Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 5:110.
37. MURPHY, S. M., AND Y. B. LINHART. 1999. Comparative morphology of the gastrointestinal tract in the feeding specialist Sciurus aberti and several generalist congeners. Journal of Mammalogy 80:1325-1330.
38. PATTON, D. R., AND W. GREEN. 1970. Abert's squirrels prefer mature ponderosa pine. United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, Research Note RM-169:1-3.
39. PEDERSON, J. C., R. N. HASENYAGER, AND A. W. HEGGEN. 1976. Habitat requirements of the Abert squirrel (Sciurus aberti navajo) on the Monticello District, Manti-La Sal National Forest of Utah. Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources, Salt Lake City, Publication 76-9:1-10.
40. PEDERSON, J. C., R. N. HASENYAGER, AND A. W. HEGGEN. 1978. Use of artificial nest boxes by Abert's squirrels. Southwestern Naturalist 23:700-702.
41. RASMUSSEN, D. I. 1941. Biotic communities of Kaibab plateau, Arizona. Ecological Monographs 11:229-275.
42. ROTHWELL, R. 1979. Nest sites of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in the Laramie range of southeastern Wyoming. Journal of Mammalogy 60:404-405.
43. SALSBURY, C. M., R. W. DOLAN, AND E. B. PENTZER. 2004. The distribution of fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) leaf nests within forest fragments in central Indiana. American Midland Naturalist 151:369-377.
44. SAS INSTITUTE INC. 2002. SAS. Ver. 9.00. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina.
45. SAS INSTITUTE INC. 2003. JMP-IN. Ver. 5.1. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina.
46. SNYDER, M. A. 1993. Interactions between Abert's squirrel and ponderosa pine: the relationship between selective herbivory and host plant fitness. American Naturalist 141:866-879.
47. SNYDER, M. A., AND Y. B. LINHART. 1994. Nest-site selection by Abert's squirrel: chemical characteristics of nest trees. Journal of Mammalogy 75:136-141.
48. STATES, J. S., AND P. J. WETTSTEIN. 1998. Food habits and evolutionary relationships of the tassel-eared squirrel (Scirus aberti). Pp. 185-194 in Ecology and evolutionary biology of tree squirrels (M. A. Steele, J. F. Merritt, and D. A. Zegers, eds.). Special Publication 6, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia.
49. STEELE, M. A., AND J. L. KOPROWSKI. 2001. North American tree squirrels. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
50. STEPHENSON, R. L. 1975. Reproductive biology and food habits of Abert's squirrels in central Arizona. M.S. thesis, Arizona State University, Tempe.
51. ST. LOUIS, V. L., AND J. C. BARLOW. 1991. Morphometric analyses of introduced and ancestral populations of the Eurasian tree sparrow. Wilson Bulletin 103:1-12.
52. THOMAS, C. D., ET AL. 2001. Ecological and evolutionary processes at expanding range margins. Nature 411:577-581.
53. TROWBRIDGE, C. D. 2004. Emerging associations on marine rocky shores: specialist herbivores on introduced macroalgae. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:294-308.
54. WHITE, G. C., AND R. A. GARROTT. 1990. Analysis of wildlife radiotracking data. Academic Press, San Diego, California.
55. YOUNG, P. J., V. L. GREER, AND S. K. SIX. 2002. Characteristics of bolus nests of red squirrels in the Pinaleño and White mountains of Arizona. Southwestern Naturalist 47:267-275.
56. ZAR, J. H. 1984. Biostatistical analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.