THE EFFECT OF FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION ONMASTOMYS NATALENSIS(MURIDAE: RODENTIA) IN A SWAZILAND GRASSLAND
作者:
A. Monadjem,
M.R. Perrin,
期刊:
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
(Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 52,
issue 2
页码: 363-375
ISSN:0035-919X
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1080/00359199809520359
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The effects of food supplementation on aMastomys natalensispopulation were experimentally studied in a grassland habitat in Swaziland. Food was added bi-weekly to two 1 ha grids, while a single 1 ha grid served as the control. Mice were trapped monthly over a twelve month period. Food supplemented grids supported more than twice the number of mice than the control grid. This increase was a consequence of high rates of immigration onto the supplemented grids. Food supplementation also extended the breeding season of the females by at least two months, but not of the males. Late in the dry season (August—October) the mean mass of mice was higher on the supplemented grids. Monthly residency rates were higher on the supplemented grids immediately after supplementation (July—August), and during mid-summer (December—February). The presence of extra food, however, did not prevent the spring (October—November) decline.
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