Cranial variation in the European badger Meles meles (Carnivora, Mustelidae) in Scandinavia

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 433-450

  Abramov, Alexei V ^a   Puzachenko, Andrey Yu ^b   Wiig, Øystein ^c  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Badgers; Europe; Fennoscandia; Geographic variation; Skull

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 70349635818     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00507.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Abramov AV. 2001. Notes on the taxonomy of the Siberian badgers (Mustelidae: Meles). Proceedings of Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Science 288 : 221 233 (in Russian with English summary).
2. Abramov AV. 2002. Variation of the baculum structure of the Palaearctic badger (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Meles). Russian Journal of Theriology 1 : 57 60.
3. Abramov AV. 2003. The head colour pattern of the Eurasian badgers (Mustelidae, Meles). Small Carnivore Conservation 29 : 5 7.
4. Abramov AV, Medvedev SG. 2003. Notes on zoogeography and taxonomy of the badgers (Carnivora: Mustelidae: Meles) and some their fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae: Paraceras). Zoosystematica Rossica 11 : 397 402.
5. Abramov AV, Puzachenko AY. 2005. Sexual dimorphism of craniological characters in Eurasian badgers, Meles spp. (Carnivora, Mustelidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 244 : 11 29.
6. Abramov AV, Puzachenko AY. 2006. Geographical variability of skull and taxonomy of Eurasian badgers (Mustelidae, Meles). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 85 : 641 655 (in Russian with English summary).
7. Baryshnikov GF, Puzachenko AY, Abramov AV. 2003. New analysis of variability of check teeth in Eurasian badgers (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Meles). Russian Journal of Theriology 1 : 133 149.
8. Bevanger K, Lindström ER. 1995. Distributional history of the European badger Meles meles in Scandinavia during the 20th century. Annales Zoologici Fennici 32 : 5 9.
9. Björck S. 1996. Late Weichselian/Early Preboreal development of the Öresund Strait; a key area for northerly mammal migration. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Seria 8 : 123 134.
10. Cattell RB. 1966. The scree test for the number of factors. Multivariate Behavioral Research 1 : 245 276.
11. Clutton-Brock J. 1990. Animal remains from the Neolithic lake village site of Yvonand IV, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Archives des Sciences (Geneva) 43 : 1 97.
12. Davison ML, Jones LE, eds. 1983. Special issue: multidimensional scaling and its applications. Applied Psychological Measurement 7 : 373 514.
13. Degerbøl M. 1933. Danmarks pattedyr i fortiden i sammenligning med recente former. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København 96 : 357 641.
14. Fredga K, Narain Y. 2000. The complex hybrid zone between the Abisko and Sidensjoö chromosome races of Sorex araneus in Sweden. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 70 : 285 307.
15. Grundbacher B, Lüps P, Nussbaumer MA. 1990. Osteometrische Untresuchungen an neolithischen Dachsen (Meles meles) aus Twan (Kanton Bern, Schweiz). In : Schibler J, Sedlmeier J, Spycher H, eds. Festschrift für Hans R. Stampfli: Beiträge zue Archäozoologie, Archäologie, Anthropologie, Geologie und Paläontologie. Basel : Helbing and Lichtenhahn Verlag, 101 113.
16. Hell P, Paule L. 1989. Craniometrical investigations of the European badger (Meles meles) from the Slovak Carpathians. Folia Zoologica 38 : 307 323.
17. Heptner VG, Naumov NP, Yurgenson PB, Sludsky AA, Chirkova AF, Bannikov AG. 1967. Mammals of Soviet Union. Vol. 2. Pt. 1. Sea cows and Carnivora. Moscow : Vysshaya Shkola (in Russian).
18. Hewitt GM. 1993. Postglacial distribution and species substructure: lessons from pollen, insects and hybrid zones. In : Lees DR, Edwards D, eds. Evolutionary patterns and processes. London : Academic Press, 97 123.
19. Hysing-Dahl C. 1954. Den norske grevling Meles meles (L.). Naturvitenskapelig rekke, Bergen 16 : 1 55.
20. Jaarola M, Tegelström H. 1995. Colonization history of north European field voles (Microtus agrestis) revealed by mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Ecology 4 : 299 310.
21. Jaarola M, Tegelström H, Fredga K. 1999. Colonization history in Fennoscandian rodents. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 68 : 113 127.
22. James FC, McCulloch ChE. 1990. Multivariate analysis in ecology and systematics: panacea or Pandora's box? Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21 : 129 166.
23. Jonsson L. 1988. The vertebrate faunal remains from the Late Atlantic settlement Skateholm in Scania, South Sweden. Acta Regiae Societatia Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensia 79 : 56 88.
24. Kaufman L, Rousseeuw PJ. 1990. Finding groups in data: an introduction to cluster analysis. New York : Wiley-Interscience.
25. Kauhala K. 1995. Changes in distribution of the European badger Meles meles in Finland during the rapid colonization of the raccoon dog. Annales Zoologici Fennici 32 : 183 191.
26. Kruskal JB. 1964. Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis. Psychometrika 29 : 1 27.
27. Kupriyanova IF, Puzachenko AY, Agadzanyan AK. 2003. Temporal and spatial patterns of craniological variation in common shrew, Sorex araneus (Insectivora). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 82 : 839 851 (in Russian with English summary).
28. Kurtén B. 1965. The Carnivora of the Palestine caves. Acta Zoologica Fennica 107 : 1 74.
29. Lundqvist J. 1986. Late Weichselian glaciation and deglaciation in Scandinavia. Quaternary Science Reviews 5 : 269 292.
30. Lynch J, O'Corry-Crowe G, Cheeseman CL, Harris S, Duke EJ, Hayden TJ. 1993. Morphometric and genetic variation among badger populations. In : Hayden TJ, ed. The badger. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 94 107.
31. Lynch J, Whelan R, Fituri AI, Hayden TJ. 1997. Craniometric variation in the Eurasian badger, Meles meles. Journal of Zoology (London) 242 : 31 44.
32. Lynch JM. 1994. Morphometric variation in the badger (Meles meles): clinal variation in cranial size and shape across Eurasia. Small Carnivore Conservation 10 : 6 7.
33. Marmi J, Abramov AV, Chashchin PV, Domingo-Roura X. 2005. Filogenia, subespeciación y estructura genética del tejón (Meles meles) en la Península Ibérica y en el mundo. In : Virgós E, Revilla E, Mangas JG, Domingo-Roura X, eds. Ecologia y conservacion del tejón en ecosistemas Mediterráneos. Málaga : Sociedad Española para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM), 13 26.
34. Marmi J, López-Giráldez F, Macdonald DW, Calafell F, Zholnerovskaya E, Domingo-Roura X. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA reveals a strong phylogeographic structure in the badger across Eurasia. Molecular Ecology 15 : 1007 1020.
35. Mayewski PA, Rohling EE, Stager JC, Karlén W, Maasch KA, Meeker LD, Meyerson EA, Gasse F, Kreveld S van, Holmgren K, Lee-Thorp J, Rosqvist G, Rack F, Ml S, Schneider RR, Steig EJ. 2004. Holocene climate variability. Quaternary Research 62 : 243 255.
36. Mayr E. 1969. Principles of systematic zoology. New York : McGraw-Hill.
37. Mayr E, Ashlock PD. 1991. Principles of systematic zoology, 2nd edn. New York : McGraw-Hill.
38. Puzachenko AY. 2001. Skull variability in the common mole rat Spalax microphthalmus (Spalacidae, Rodentia). 1. A method for analysis of data, non-age variability in males. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 80 : 343 357 (in Russian with English summary).
39. Shepard BN. 1962. The analysis of proximities: multidimensional scaling with unknown distance function. Psychometrika 27 : 125 140.
40. Sommer R, Benecke N. 2004. Late- and Post-Glacial history of the Mustelidae in Europe. Mammal Review 34 : 249 284.
41. Taberlet P, Bouvet J. 1994. Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism, phylogeography, and conservation genetics of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 255 : 195 200.
42. Taberlet P, Fumagalli L, Wust-Saucy AG, Cosson JF. 1998. Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in Europe. Molecular Ecology 7 : 453 464.
43. Taberlet P, Swenson JE, Sandegren F, Bjarvall A. 1995. Localization of a contact zone between two highly divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Scandinavia. Conservation Biology 9 : 1255 1261. (Pubitemid 3000869)
44. Tegelström H. 1987. Transfer of mitochondrial DNA from the northern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys rutilus) to the bank vole (C. glareolus). Journal of Molecular Evolution 24 : 218 227.
45. Thurber JM, Peterson RO. 1991. Changes in body size associated with range expansion in the coyote (Canis latrans). Journal of Mammalogy 72 : 750 755.
46. Torgerson WS. 1952. Multidimensional scaling: I. Theory and method. Psychometrika 17 : 401 419.
47. Wiig Ø. 1986. Sexual dimorphism in the skull of minks Mustela vison, badgers Meles meles and otters Lutra lutra. Zoological Journal of Linnean Society 87 : 163 179.
48. Wozencraft WC. 2005. Order carnivora. In : Wilson DE, Reeder DM, eds. Mammals species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference, vol. 1, 3rd edn. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 532 628.
49. Yom-Tov Y, Yom-Tov S, Baagøe H. 2003. Increase of skull size in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and Eurasian badger (Meles meles) in Denmark during the twentieth century: an effect of improved diet? Evolutionary Ecology Research 5 : 1037 1048.