Voles Arvicola terrestris

Reports continue to appear dealing with the antiherbivore properties of cyanogenic plants. Eor example. Saucy et al. (1999) demonstrated, using laboratory as well as outdoor enclosure experiments, that voles (Arvicola terrestris) showed clear... 

Saucy, F., Studer, J., Aerni, V. and Schneiter, B. 1999. Preference for acyanogenic white clover Trifolium repens) in the vole Arvicola terrestris I. experiments with two varieties. J. Chem. Ecol. 25 1441-1454. 

Water voles, Arvicola terrestris L., in Western Siberia inhabit wet-lands in summer. The harsh Siberian climate (cold winters) causes the young-of-the-year to move from summer wet habitats to dry sites (meadows), where they winter in underground tunnels. In spring, the voles return to wet habitats again and breed (Panteleyev, 1968). In accordance with Burkey-Stenseth s (1994) model, in which long winters and patchy distribution of resources decrease the stability of populations and cause population crashes, the breeding... 

We used water voles (Arvicola terrestris L.) that were either trapped from a natural population at Lisii Norki, Western Siberia (55oo50 N, 80oo00 E), or were laboratory-bom... 

Evsikov, V.I., Nazarova, G.G. Potapov, M.A. 1997. Genetic-ecological monitoring of a cyclic population of the water vole Arvicola terrestris L.) in the south of West Siberia. Genetika, 33, 1133—1143 (in Russian). See English translation in Russian Journal of Genetics, 33, 963—972, 1997). 

Plusnin, Yu.M. Evsikov, V.I. 1985. Seasonal differences in social structure of demes in the water vole (Arvicola terrestris). Ekologiya, 3, 47—55 (in Russian). 

Potapov, M.A. 1996. The Role of Social Behavior in a Fitness of a Population of the Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris L). Candidate Degree (Ph.D.) Thesis. Novosibirsk Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of Russian Acad, of Sci. (in Russian). 

Stoddart, D.M. 1970. Individual range, dispersion, and dispersal in a population of water voles Arvicola terrestris). J. Anim. Ecol., 39,403—425. 

Bazhan, N. M., Makarova, E. N., Yakoleva, T. V. 1996. Deprivation of food during pregnancy and reproduction in the water vole Arvicola terrestris), J. Mammal., 77 107 -1084. 

Figure 38. Movement of water voles (Arvicola terrestris) as determined with a tag. (a) Water vole trap, (b) A water vole latrine at station n, July 1%8. The sixpenny piece (diameter 19.5 mm) gives an idea of scale. From Stoddart (1970). Courtesy of the British Ecological Society.

Myllymaki, A. 1%9. Trapping experiments on the water vole, Arvicola terrestris (L.), with the aid of the isotope technique, pp. 39-55. In Energy Flow Through Small Mammal Populations (K. Petrusewicz and L. Ryszkowski, eds.). PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw, Poland. 

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