Age variation in a fluctuating population of the common vole.

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/03:00001564

Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Age variation in a fluctuating population of the common vole.

Original language description

We analysed variation in age in a fluctuating population of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) in southern Moravia to test the assumption of the senescence hypothesis that the age of voles increases with increasing population density. Between 1996 and 1998, we monitored the demographic changes by snap-trapping and live-trapping in a field population passing through the increase, peak and decline phase of the population cycle. We used the eye lens mass method to determine the age of snap-trapped and live-trapped animals. The average age of winter males was higher after the peak phase breeding season than before it. No such phase-dependent shift in age was observed in the female component. Male age continued to increase from autumn to spring over the pre-peak winter, and the highest age was in spring of the peak phase year. After the peak phase breeding season the highest age was achieved in winter, with the decline phase males during the next spring tending to be younger.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2003

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Oecologia

ISSN

0029-8549

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Volume of the periodical

137

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

527-532

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