A modified track tube for detecting beach mice

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1154-1159

  Loggins, Ronald E ^a,b   Gore, Jeffery A ^a   Brown, Laurinda L ^a   Slaby, Laura A ^a,c   Leone, Erin H ^a  

^a FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

beach mice; Peromyscus polionotus; small mammal monitoring; track tube

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT QUALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RODENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS POLIONOTUS;

EID: 77953946057     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2009-294     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bider, J. R. 1968. Animal activity in uncontrolled terrestrial communities as determined by a sand transect technique. Ecological Monographs 38:269-308.
2. Blair, F. 1951. Population structure social behavior, and environmental relations in a natural population of the beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus leucocephalus). Contributions from the Laboratory of Vertebrate Biology, University of Michigan 48:1-47.
3. Boonstra, R., M. Kanter, and C. J. Krebs. 1992. A tracking technique to locate small mammals at low densities. Journal of Mammalogy 73:683-685.
4. Bowen, W. W. 1968. Variation and evolution of gulf coast populations of beach mice, Peromyscus polionotus. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum of Natural History 12:1-91.
5. Caughley, G. 1977. Analysis of vertebrate populations. Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, London, United Kingdom.
6. Connors, M. J., E. M. Schauber, A. Forbes, C. G. Jones, B. J. Goodwin, and R. S. Ostfeld. 2005. Use of track plates to quantify predation risk at small spatial scales. Journal of Mammalogy 86:991-996.
7. Drennan, J. E., P. Beier, and N. L. Dodd. 1998. Use of track stations to index abundance of sciurids. Journal of Mammalogy 79:352-359.
8. Glennon, M. J., W. F. Porter, and C. L. Demers. 2002. An alternative field technique for estimating diversity of small-mammal populations. Journal of Mammalogy 83:734-742.
9. Gore, J. A., and T. L. Schaefer. 1993. Distribution and conservation of the Santa Rosa beach mouse. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 47:378-385.
10. Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA.
11. Holler, N. R. 1992. Choctawhatchee beach mouse, Peromyscus polionotus allophyrs, (Cricetidae: Rodentia). Pages 76-86 in S. R. Humphrey, editor. Volume 1. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
12. Johnson, A. F., and M. G. Barbour. 1990. Dunes and maritime forests. Pages 429-480 in R. L. Myers and J. J. Ewel, editors. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando, USA.
13. Justice, K. E. 1961. A new method of measuring home ranges of small mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 42:462-470.
14. Kaufman, G., and D. Kaufman. 1994. Changes in body mass related to capture in the prairie deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Journal of Mammalogy 75:681-691.
15. Lord, R. D., A. M. Vilches, J. I. Maiztegui, and C. A. Soldini. 1970. The tracking board: a relative census technique for studying rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 51:828-829.
16. Mabee, T. J. 1998. A weather-resistant tracking tube for small mammals. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26:571-574.
17. Nams, V. O., and E. A. Gillis. 2003. Changes in responses of small mammals to tracking tubes with time. Journal of Mammalogy 84:1374-1380.
18. O'Farrell, M. J., and D. W. Kaufman. 1975. Aspects of activity for Peromyscus polionotus using a sand-tracking technique. Journal of Mammalogy 56:525-528.
19. Pries, A. J. 2006. Hurricane impacts on coastal dunes and spatial distribution of Santa Rosa beach mice (Peromyscus polionotus leucocephalus) in dune habitats. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
20. Suazo, A., A. Delong, A. Bard, and D. Oddy. 2005. Repeated capture of beach mice (Peromyscus polionotus phasma and P.P. niveiventris) reduces body mass. Journal of Mammalogy 86:520-523.
21. Swilling, W. R., and M. C. Wooten. 2002. Subadult dispersal in a monogamous species, the Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates). Journal of Mammalogy 83:252-259.
22. Van Apeldoorn, R., M. El Daem, K. Hawley, M. Kozakiewciz, G. Merriam, W. Nieuwenhuizen, and J. Wegner. 1993. Footprints of small mammals. A field method of sampling data for different species. Mammalia 57:407-422.
23. Wiewel, A. S., W. R. Clark, and M. A. Sovada. 2007. Assessing small mammal abundance with track-tube indices and mark-recapture population estimates. Journal of Mammalogy 88:250-260.