Does maternal condition or predation risk influence small mammal population dynamics?

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 176-184

  Banks, Peter B ^a   Powell, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; MATERNAL EFFECT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES); VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 3042583360     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12679.x     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Bachman, G. C. 1993. The effect of body condition on the trade-off between vigilance and foraging in Belding's ground squirels. - Anim. Behav. 46: 233-244.
2. Banks, P. B., Hume, I. D. and Crowe, O. 1999. Behavioural, morphological and dietary response of rabbits to predation risk from foxes. - Oikos 85: 247-256.
3. Barker, S. C., Singleton, G. R. and Spratt, D. M. 1991. Can the nematode Capillaria hepatica regulate abundance in wild house mice? Results of enclosure experiments in south-eastern Australia. - Parasitology 103: 439-449.
4. Barreto, G. W. and Macdonald, D. W. 1999. The responses of water voles, Arvicola terretris, to the odours of predators. - Anim. Behav. 57: 1107-1112.
5. Bernardo, J. 1996a. Maternal effects in animal ecology. - Am. Zool. 36: 83-105.
6. Bernardo, J. 1996b. The particular maternal effect of propagule size, especially egg size: patterns, models, quality of evidence and interpretations. - Am. Zool. 36: 216-236.
7. Blackwell, G. L., Potter, M. A. and Minot, E. O. 2001. Rodent and predator population dynamics in an eruptive system. - Ecol. Modell. 142: 227-245.
8. Boonstra, R. 1994. Population cycles in microtines: the senescence hypothesis. - Evol. Ecol 8: 196-219.
9. Boonstra, R. and Boag, P. T. 1987. A test of the chitty hypothesis inheritance of life-history traits in meadow voles Microtus pennsylvanicus. - Evolution 41: 929-947.
10. Boonstra, R. and Hochachka, W. M. 1997. Maternal effects and additive genetic inheritance in the collared lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus. - Evol. Ecol. 11: 169-182.
11. Boonstra, R., Krebs, C. J. and Stenseth, N. C. 1998a. Population cycles in small mammals: the problem of explaining the low phase. - Ecology 79: 1479-1488.
12. Boonstra, R., Hik, D., Singleton, G. R. et al. 1998b. The impact of predator-induced stress on the snowshoe hare cycle. - Ecol. Monogr. 68: 371-394.
13. Borowski, Z. 1998. Influence of weasel (Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766) odour on spatial behaviour of root voles (Microtus oeconomus Pallas, 1776). - Can. J. Zool. 76: 1799-1804.
14. Carlsen, M., Lodal, J., Leirs, H. et al. 1999. The effect of predation risk on body weight in the field vole, Microtus agrestis. - Oikos 87: 277-285.
15. Chambers, L. K., Singleton, G. R. and Hinds, L. A. 1999. Fertility control of wild mouse populations: the effects of hormonal competence and an imposed level of sterility. - Wildlife Res. 26: 579-591.
16. Christian, J. J. and Lemunyan, C. D. 1958. Adverse effects of crowding on lactation and reproduction of mice and two generations of their progeny. - Endocrinology 63: 517-529.
17. Clutton-Brock, T. H., Stevenson, I. R., Marrow, P. et al. 1996. Population fluctuations, reproductive costs and life-history tactics in female Soay sheep. - J. Anim. Ecol. 65: 675-689.
18. Coulston, S., Stoddart, D. M. and Crump, D. R. 1993. Use of predator odors to protect chickpeas from predation by laboratory and wild mice. - J. Chem. Ecol. 19: 607-612.
19. Desautels, M. and Dulos, R. A. 1990. Weight gain and brown fat composition of mice selected for high body weight fed a high-fat diet. - Am. J. Physiol. 255: R608-R615.
20. Dickman, C. R. 1992. Predation and habitat shift in the house mouse, Mus domesticus. - Ecology 73: 313-322.
21. Dickman, C. R. and Doncaster, C. P. 1984. Responses of small mammals to red fox (Vulpes vulpes) odour. - J. Zool. Lond. 204: 521-531.
22. Ergon, T., Lambin, X. and Stenseth, N. C. 2001a. Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment. - Nature 411: 1043-1045.
23. Ergon, T., MacKinnon, J. L., Stenseth, N. C. et al. 2001b. Mechanisms for delayed density-dependent reproductive traits in field voles, Microtus agrestis: the importance of inherited environmental effects. - Oikos 95: 185-197.
24. Gregory, R. D., Montgomery, S. S. J. and Montgomery, W. I. 1992. Population biology of Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Nematoda) in the wood mouse. - J. Anim. Ecol. 61: 749-757.
25. Hellstedt, P., Kalske, T. and Hanksi, I. 2002. Indirect effects of least weasel predation on field vole behaviour and demography: a field experiment. - Ann. Zool. Fenn. 39: 257-265.
26. Herrenkohl, L. R. 1979. Prenatal stress reduces fertility and fecundity in female offspring. - Science 206: 1097-1099.
27. Hik, D. S. 1995. Does risk of predation influence population dynamics? Evidence from the cyclic decline of snowshoe hares. - Wildlife Res. 22: 115-129.
28. Hodges, K. E., Stefan, C. I. and Gillis, E. A. 1999. Does body condition affect fecundity in a cyclic population of snowshoe hares? - Can. J. Zool. 77: 1-6.
29. Horton, T. H. and Stetson, M. H. 1992. Maternal transfer of photoperidic information in rodents. - Anim. Reprod. Sci. 30: 29-44.
30. Ims, R. A. 1987. Differential reproductive success in a peak population of the srey-sided vole Clethrionomys rufocanus. - Oikos 50: 103-113.
31. Inchausti, P. and Ginzburg, L. R. 1998. Small mammal cycles in northern Europe: patterns and evidence for a maternal effect hypothesis. - J. Anim. Ecol. 67: 180-194.
32. Jacob, J. and Brown, J. S. 2000. Micohabitat use, giving-up densities and temporal activity as short- and long-term anti-predator behaviors in common voles. - Oikos 91: 131-138.
33. Jones, M. and Dayan, T. 2000. Foraging behavior and microhabitat use by spiny mice, Acomys cahirinus and A. russatus, in the presence of Blandford's fox (Vulpes cana) odor. - J. Chem. Ecol. 26: 455-469.
34. Jonsson, P., Koskela, E. and Mappes, T. 2000. Does risk of predation by mammalian predators affect the spacing behaviour of rodents? Two large-scale experiments. - Oecologia 122: 487-492.
35. Karels, T. J., Byrom, A. E., Boonstra, R. et al. 2000. The interactive effects of food and predators on reproduction and overwinter survival of arctic ground squirrels. - J. Anim. Ecol. 69: 235-247.
36. Kats, L. B. and Dill, L. M. 1998. The scent of death: chemosensory assessment of predation risk by prey animals. - Ecoscience 5: 361-394.
37. Klemola, T., Koivula, M., Korpimäki, E. et al. 2000. Experimental tests of predation and food hypotheses for population cycles of voles. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. 267: 351-356.
38. Klemola, T., Korpimäki, E. and Koivula, M. 2002. Rate of population change in voles from different phases of the population cycle. - Oikos 96: 291-298.
39. Korpimäki, E. and Krebs, C. J. 1996. Predation and population cycles of small mammals. - Bioscience 46: 754-764.
40. Korpimäki, E., Norrdahl, K. and Valkama, J. 1994. Reproductive investment under fluctuating predation risk: microtine rodents and small mustelids. - Evol. Ecol 8: 357-368.
41. Korpimäki, E., Norrdahl, K., Klemola, T. et al. 2002. Dynamic effects of predators on cyclic voles: field experimentation and model extrapolation. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. 269: 991-997.
42. Kotler, B. P., Brown, J. S., Smith, R. J. et al. 1988. The effects of morphology and body size on rates of owl predation on desert rodents. - Oikos 53: 145-152.
43. Krackow, S. 1997. Maternal investment, sex-differential prospects, and the sex ratio in wild house mice. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 41: 435-443.
44. Krebs, C. J. and Singleton, G. R. 1993. Indices of condition for small mammals. - Aust. J. Zool. 41: 317-323.
45. Krebs, C. J., Chitty, D., Singleton, G. et al. 1995. Can changes in social behaviour help to explain house mouse plagues in Australia? - Oikos 73: 429-434.
46. Lima, S. L. 2002. Putting predators back into behavioural predator-prey interactions. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 17: 70-75.
47. Lima, S. L. and Bednekoff, P. A. 1999. Temporal variation in danger drives antipredator behavior: the predation risk allocation hypothesis. - Am. Nat. 153: 649-659.
48. Mappes, T., Koskela, E. and Ylönen, H. 1998. Breeding suppression in voles under predation risk of small mustelids: laboratory or methodological artifact? - Oikos 82: 365-369.
49. McNamara, J. M. and Houston, A. I. 1987. Starvation and predation as factors limiting population size. - Ecology 68: 1515-1519.
50. Mech, D. L., Nelson, M. E. and McRoberts, R. E. 1991. Effects of maternal and grandmaternal nutrition on deer mass and vulnerability to wolf predation. - J. Mammal 72: 146-151.
51. Nelson, R. J. 1991. Maternal diet influences reproductive development in male Prarie vole offspring. - Physiol. Behav. 50: 1063-1066.
52. Nolte, D. L., Mason, J. R., Epple, G. et al. 1994. Why are predator urines aversive to prey? - J. Chem. Ecol. 20: 1505-1516.
53. Norrdahl, K. and Korpimäki, E. 2000. The impact of predation risk from small mustelids on prey populations. - Mammal Rev. 30: 147-156.
54. Peacor, D. and Werner, E. E. 2001. The contribution of trait-mediated indirect effects to the net of a predator. - Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 98: 3904-3908.
55. Perrin, M. R. and Johnson, S. J. 1999. The effect of supplemental food and cover availability on a population of the striped mouse. - S. Afr. Wildlife Res. 29: 15-18.
56. Powell, F. and Banks, P. B. 2004. Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat? - Anim. Behav.
57. Rohner, C. and Krebs, C. J. 1996. Owl predation on snowshoe hares: consequences of antipredator behaviour. - Oecologia 108: 303-310.
58. Rossiter, M. C. 1996. Incidence and consequences of inherited environmental effects. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27: 451-476.
59. Ruscoe, W. A., Goldsmith, R. and Choquenot, D. A. 2001. A comparison of population estimates and abundance indices for house mice inhabiting beech forests in New Zealand. - Wildlife Res. 28: 173-178.
60. Sinclair, A. R. E., Olsen, P. D. and Redhead, T. D. 1990. Can predators regulate small mammal populations? Evidence from house mouse outbreaks in Australia. - Oikos 59: 382-392.
61. Sinclair, A. R. E., Chitty, D., Stefan, C. I. et al. 2003. Mammal population cycles: evidence for intrinsic differences during snowshoe hare cycles. - Can. J. Zool. 81: 216-220.
62. Singleton, G. R. 1989. Population dynamics of an outbreak of house mice Mus domesticus in the mallee wheatlands of Australia hypothesis of plague formation. - J. Zool. Lond. 219: 495-516.
63. Singleton, G. R., Krebs, C. J., Davis, S. et al. 2001. Reproductive changes in fluctuating house mouse populations in south-eastern Australia. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268: 1741-1748.
64. Tanapat, P., Hastings, N. B., Rydel, T. A. et al. 2001. Exposure to fox odor inhibits cell proliferation in the hippocampus of adult rats via and adrenal hormone-dependent mechanism. - J. Comp. Neurol. 437: 496-504.
65. Thorpe, R. S. 1981. The morphometrics of the mouse: a review. - Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. 47: 85-125.
66. Trombulak, S. C. 1991. Maternal influence on juvenile growth rates in Belding's ground squirrel (Spermophilus beldingi). - Can. J. Zool. 69: 2140-2145.
67. Underwood, A. J. 1996. Experiments in ecology. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
68. Welberg, L. A. M. and Seckl, J. R. 2001. Prenatal stress, glucocorticoids and the programming of the brain. - J. Neuroendocrinol. 13: 113-128.
69. Whitten, W. K. 1956. Modification of the oestrous cycle of the mouse by external stimuli associated with the male. - J. Endocrinol. 13: 399-404.
70. Wolff, J. O. and Davis-Born, R. 1997. Response of gray-tailed voles to odours of a mustelid predator: a field test. - Oikos 79: 543-548.
71. Wright, S. L., Crawford, C. B. and Anderson, J. L. 1988. Allocation of reproductive effort in Mus domesticus: responses of offspring sex ratio and quality to social density and food availability. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 23: 357-365.
72. Ylönen, H. 1989. Weasels Mustela nivalis suppress reproduction in cyclic bank voles Clethrionomys glareolus. - Oikos 55: 138-140.
73. Zielinski, W. J., Vandenbergh, J. G. and Montano, M. M. 1991. Effects of social stress and intrauterine position on sexual phenotype in wild-type house mice (Mus musculus). - Physiol. Behav. 49: 117-123.