| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10144-008-0077-5 |
| Can landscape properties predict occurrence of grey-sided voles? | |
| Christensen P; Ecke F; Sandstroem P; Nilsson M; Hoernfeldt B | |
| 发表日期 | 2008 |
| 出处 | Population Ecology 50 (2): 169-179 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There has been a long-term decline in spring and fall numbers of Clethrionomys rufocanus in boreal Sweden in 19712005. Previous studies on permanent sampling plots in the centre of 2.5 x 2.5 km landscapes suggested that habitat fragmentation (sensu destruction) could have contributed to the decline. Therefore, we tested these findings in a field study and compared trapping results on the central sampling plots of landscapes with a low degree of fragmentation (LDF) and of hot spot type with trapping results in managed forest landscapes with a high degree of fragmentation (HDF). We predicted that C. rufocanus would be more common on the LDF plots. We used our permanent plots supplemented with a new sample of plots, mainly of the rare LDF type, inside or just outside the long-term study area. Very few voles were trapped on both plot types, and no difference was found. However, a subsequent pilot study with trapping in a national park with large areas of pristine, unfragmented forest yielded more voles than in the managed, more fragmented, areas. Consequently, the initial field study data and some other recent data were also re-analysed from a local patch quality perspective. This alternative approach revealed the positive importance of large focal patches of forest >60 years old and their content of old-growth (pine) forest (>100 years). Interestingly, at the landscape level, the frequency distribution of patches of forest >60 years old, old-growth (>100 years), and especially of old-growth pine forest (>100 years), relative to the properties of plots with C. rufocanus, suggested that there are few forest patches left that are suitable for C. rufocanus. Our current results suggest that habitat fragmentation cannot be excluded as a contributing cause to the long-term decline of C. rufocanus in boreal Sweden. |
| 主题 | Evolution and Ecology (EEP) |
| 关键词 | Grey-sided vole Habitat fragmentation hypothesis Long-term decline Managed forest landscape Old-growth forest Pristine forest landscape |
| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/8545/ |
| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/128824 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christensen P,Ecke F,Sandstroem P,et al. Can landscape properties predict occurrence of grey-sided voles?. 2008. |
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