Toe-bud clipping of juvenile small marsupials for ecological field research: No detectable negative effects on growth or survival

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 858-865

  Fisher, D O ^a,b   Blomberg, S P ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antechinus; Growth; Mark recapture; Marking methods; Survival; Toe clipping

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMALIA; ANTECHINUS; ANTECHINUS STUARTII; ANURA; DASYURIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70450249981     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01991.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Ambrose H. W. (1972) Effect of habitat familiarity and toe-clipping on rate of owl predation in Microtus pennsylvaticus. J. Mamm. 53, 909 913.
2. Bloch N. Irschick D. J. (2005) Toe-clipping dramatically decreases clinging performance in a pad-bearing lizard (Anolis carolinensis). J. Herp. 39, 288 293.
3. Borges-Landaez P. A. Shine R. (2003) Influence of toe-clipping on running speed in Eulamprus quoyii, an Australian scincid lizard. J. Herp. 37, 592 595.
4. Braude S. Ciszek D. (1998) Survival of naked mole-rats marked by implantable transponders and toe-clipping. J. Mamm. 79, 360 363.
5. Fairley J. S. (1982) Short-term effects of ringing and toe-clipping on the recapture of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus). J. Zool. 197, 295 297.
6. Fisher D. O. (2005) Population density and presence of the mother are related to natal dispersal decisions in male and female Antechinus stuartii. Aust. J. Zool. 53, 103 110.
7. Fisher D. O. Cockburn A. (2006) The large male advantage in brown antechinuses: female choice, male dominance and delayed male death. Behav. Ecol. 17, 164 171.
8. Fisher D. O., Double M. C. Moore B. D. (2005) Number of mates and timing of mating affect offspring growth in the small marsupial, Antechinus agilis. Anim. Behav. 71, 289 297.
9. Fisher D. O., Double M. C., Blomberg S. P., Jennions M. D. Cockburn A. (2006) Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild. Nature 444, 89 92.
10. Gannon W. L., Sikes R. S. Animal Care and Use Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists (2007) Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research. J. Mamm. 88, 809 823.
11. Gentile R., Finotti R., Rademaker V. Cerqueira R. (2004) Population dynamics of four marsupials and its relation to resource production in the Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil. Mammalia 68, 109 119.
12. Henshaw R. E. (1981) Toe-clipping coyotes for individual identification- a critique. J. Wildl. Manage. 45, 1005 1007.
13. Holleley C. E., Dickman C. R., Crowther M. S. Oldroyd B. P. (2006) Size breeds success: multiple paternity, multivariate selection and male semelparity in a small marsupial, Antechinus stuartii. Mol. Ecol. 15, 3439 3448.
14. Jennings M. L., David D. N. Portier K. M. (1991) Effect of marking techniques on growth and survivorship of hatchling alligators. Wildl. Soc. B19, 204 207.
15. Kinkead K. E., Lanham J. D. Montanucci R. R. (2006) Comparison of anesthesia and marking techniques on stress and behavioral responses in two Desmognathus salamanders. J. Herp. 40, 323 328.
16. Korn H. (1987) Effects of live-trapping and toe-clipping on body weight of European and African rodent species. Oecologia 71, 597 600.
17. Langkilde T. Shine R. (2006) How much stress do researchers inflict on their study animals? A case study using a scincid lizard, Eulamprus heatwolei. J. Exp. Biol. 209, 1035 1043.
18. Lazenby-Cohen K. A. (1991) Communal nesting in Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Aust. J. Zool. 39, 273 284.
19. Leclercq G. C. Rozenfeld F. M. (2001) A permanent marking method to identify individual small rodents from birth to sexual maturity. J. Zool. 254, 203 206.
20. Lee A. K. Cockburn A. (1985) Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
21. Lindner E. Fuelling O. (2002) Marking methods in small mammals: ear-tattoo as an alternative to toe-clipping. J. Zool. 256, 159 163.
22. McCarthy M. A. Parris K. M. (2004) Clarifying the effect of toe clipping on frogs with Bayesian statistics. J. Appl. Ecol. 41, 780 786.
23. May R. M. (2004) Ecology - ethics and amphibians. Nature 431, 403.
24. Mortola J. P., Frappell P. B. Woolley P. A. (1999) Breathing through skin in a newborn mammal. Nature 397, 660.
25. National Health and Medical Research Council Animal Welfare Committee (2007) Guidelines for the generation, breeding, care and use of genetically modified and cloned animals for scientific purposes. Department of Health and Ageing. Australian Government.
26. Ott J. A. Scott D. E. (1999) Effects of toe-clipping and PIT-tagging on growth and survival in metamorphic Ambystoma opacum. J. Herp. 33, 344 348.
27. Parris K. M. McCarthy M. A. (2001) Identifying effects of toe clipping on anuran return rates: the importance of statistical power. Amphib-Reptil. 22, 275 289.
28. Paulissen M. A. Meyer H. A. (2000) The effect of toe-clipping on the gecko Hemidactylus turcicus. J. Herpetol. 34, 282 285.
29. Pavone L. V. Boonstra R. (1985) The effects of toe clipping on the survival of the meadow vole Microtus pennsylvanicus. Can. J. Zool. 63, 499 501.
30. Pestell A. J. L. Petit S. (2007) Methods and ethical considerations of pitfall trapping for the western pygmy possum (Cercartetus concinnus Gould) (Marsupialia: Burramyidae), with observations on capture patterns and nest sites. Wildl. Res. 34, 296 305.
31. Pinheiro J. C. Bates D. M. (2000) Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus. Springer, New York.
32. R Development Core Team (2007) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
33. Selwood L. (1983) Factors influencing pre-natal fertility in the brown marsupial mouse, Antechinus stuartii. J. Reprod. Fertil. 68, 317 324.
34. Soderquist T. R. Dickman C. R. (1988) A technique for marking marsupial pouch young with fluorescent pigment tatoos. Aust. Wildl. Res. 15, 561 563.
35. White G. C. Burnham K. P. (1997) Program Mark-Survival Estimation from Populations of Marked Animals. Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
36. Wood M. D. Slade N. A. (1990) Comparison of ear-tagging and toe-clipping in prairie voles Microtus ochrogaster. J. Mamm. 71, 252 255.