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The effect of supplementary feeding upon the sizes of the home ranges of woodmice Apodemus sylvaticus living on a system of maritime sand‐dunes
- Source :
- Journal of Zoology. 231:233-237
- Publication Year :
- 1993
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1993.
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Abstract
- The woodmouse is primarily a woodland species but it also occurs on maritime sand-dunes. The home ranges of mice living on the sand-dunes are much larger than those of animals living in woodlands. Here we test the hypothesis that this difference is due to the fact that woodland provides substantially more food than do sand-dunes. Our experimental approach was to provide supplementary food in the form of wheatgrain to a sand-dune population and to compare range sizes with a control population. Range sizes on the supplemented area were significantly smaller than the controls and essentially similar to those of woodmice living in deciduous woodland.
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Ecology
Range (biology)
fungi
Population
Woodland
Biology
biology.organism_classification
Supplementary food
Sand dune stabilization
stomatognathic system
parasitic diseases
Deciduous woodland
Apodemus
Animal Science and Zoology
education
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14697998 and 09528369
- Volume :
- 231
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Zoology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........66c36b4b71c6dd2bac9db989d88cf73e