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Description: |
ix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
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General Note: |
Based on papers given at the International Colloquium on Winter Ecology of Small Mammals, held Oct. 14-18, 1981, at Powdermill Nature Reserve. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Proceedings from the International Colloquium on Winter Ecology of Small Mammals held at Powdermill Nature Reserve from 14 to 18 October, 1981. 37 papers. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Snow and small mammals / W.O. Pruitt, Jr. -- Small mammals in winter: the effects of altitude, latitude, and geographic history / Robert S. Hoffmann -- Materials and methods of subnivean sampling / William D. Schmid -- Light extinction under a changing snowcover / Peter J. Marchand -- Light conditions and plant growth under snow / Frank B. Salisbury -- Demography of a subarctic population of Clethrionomys gapperi: can winter mortability be predicted? / William A. Fuller -- Winter success of root voles, Microtus oeconomus, in relation to population density and food conditions at Kilpisjarvi, Finnish Lapland / Johan Tast -- Food habits, grazing activities, and reproductive development of long-tailed voles, Microtus longicaudus (Merriam) in relation to snow cover in the mountains of Colorado / Albert W. Spencer -- Life history profiles of boreal meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) / Steve Mihok -- Winter ecology of small mammals in the Ural Mountains / Vladimir N. Bolshakov -- Stability of overwintering populations of Clethrionomys and Microtus at Kilpisjarvi, Finnish Lapland / Jussi Viitala -- Abundance and survival of Clethrionomys rutilus in relation to snow cover in a forested habitat near College, Alaska / Paul Whitney and Dale Feist -- Plant production and its relation to climatic conditions and small rodent density in Kilpisjarvi region (69ʻ05'N, 20ʻ40'E), Finnish Lapland / Seppo Eurola, Hannu Kyllonen, and Kari Laine -- Metabolic and thermogenic adjustments in winter acclimatization of subarctic Alaskan red-backed voles / Dale D. Feist -- Wintering strategy of voles and shrews in Finland / Heikki Hyvarinen -- Winter tissue changes and regulatory mechanisms in nonhibernating small mammals: a survey and evaluation of adaptive and non-adaptive features / W.B. Quay -- Strategies for, and environmental cueing mechanisms of, seasonal changes in thermoregulatory parameters of small mammals / Bruce A. Wunder -- Climate effects on growth and reproduction potential in Sigmodon hispidus and Peromyscus maniculatus / Warren P. Porter and Polley Ann McClure -- Seasonal changes in brain morphology in small mammals / Vladimir A. Yaskin -- Autumn mass dynamics of red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi) in Colorado in relation to photoperiod cues and temperature / Douglas C. Ure -- Growth patterns and seasonal thermogenesis of Clethrionomys gapperi inhabiting the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains of North America / Joseph F. Merritt -- Reproduction of the montane vole, Microtus montanus, in subnivean populations / Frederick J. Jannett, Jr. -- Winter reproduction of small mammals in relation to food conditions and population dynamics / Lennart Hansson -- Influence of radiation on the litter size of two microtine rodents / Jan Zejda and Jaroslav Pelikan -- Winter breeding of microtine rodents at Kilpisjarvi, Finnish Lapland / Asko Kaikusalo and Johan Tast -- Reproduction and survival of Peromyscus in seasonal environments / John S. Millar -- Group nesting and its ecological and evolutionary significance in overwintering microtine rodents / Dale M. Madison -- Relationship of seasonal change to changes in age structure and body size in Microtus pennsylvanicus / Ronald J. Brooks and A. Bruce Webster -- Population ecology and home range utilizations of two subalpine meadow rodents (Microtus longicaudus and Peromyscus maniculatus) / Jack A. Cranford -- Behavioral strategies of small mammals under winter conditions: solitary or social? / Stephen D. West and Holly T. Dublin -- Overwintering activity of Peromyscus maniculatus, Clethrionomys gapperi, C. rutilus, Eutamias amoenus, and Microtus pennsylvanicus / Lucius L. Stebbins -- Overwintering behavioral strategies in taiga voles (Microtus xanthognathus) / Jerry O. Wolff -- Microtus richardsoni microhabitat and life history / Daniel R. Ludwig -- Dispersion of insular Peromyscus maniculatus in coastal coniferous forest, British Columbia / Thomas B. Herman -- The population dynamics and the influence of winter on the common shrew (Sorex araneus L.) / Kalevi Heikura -- A possible subnivean food chain / C.W. Aitchison -- Subnivean accumulation of CO2 and its effects on winter distribution of small mammals / Cheryl E. Penny and William O. Pruitt, Jr. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Winter ecology of small mammals. Pittsburgh : Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1984 (OCoLC)744494210 |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
https://archive.org/details/winterecologyof101984merr Free eBook from the Internet Archive |
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https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2874979M Additional information and access via Open Library |
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Index - Uncontrolled: |
Mammals Ecology Congresses |
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Index - Genre/Form: |
proceedings (reports) aat |