Population Fluctuations of Peromyscus maniculatus and Other Small Mammals as Revealed by the North American Census of Small Mammals

1966 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Richard Terman
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
North American ◽  
Peromyscus Maniculatus ◽  
Population Fluctuations ◽  
The North

Desert-Dwelling Small Mammals as Granivores - Intercontinental Variations

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 543 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIH Kerley ◽  
WG Whitford
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
South African ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Small Mammals ◽  
North American ◽  
Desert Plant ◽  
The North ◽  
Desert Rodents ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
The Impact

Deserts are, by definition, environmentally similar, and this has lead to hypotheses of convergence in the properties of desert biotic communities as well as the components of these communities. There is considerable evidence for convergence in some characteristics of desert biota, ranging from plant growth forms to the well-known bipedal, nocturnal rodents. One area that has received considerable attention has been granivory by desert rodents, largely because of the effort focused on the North American desert heteromyids, and also because the process of granivory has far-reaching ramifications for desert plant communities. Specific tests for convergence in the impact of rodents as granivores, by means of bait-removal experiments, however, have shown that the high levels of seed removal by rodents in the North American deserts differs from that of rodents in the South American, Australian and South African deserts, where ants are the most important seed harvesters. The only studies to measure the impact of rodents on desert seed fluxes confirm these patterns, with rodents consuming up to 86% of seed production in North American deserts, but less than 1% of seed production in South African deserts. A review of dietary data for desert rodents confirms these trends, with little evidence for the presence of granivores in deserts besides those of North America. A variety of hypotheses have attempted to explain these variations in desert rodent granivory. These include recent extinctions of granivores, that seed burial, low soil nutrients and/or limiting seed production prevented the radiation of granivorous small mammals, and that particular deserts are too young or too recently colonised by rodents for granivorous rodents to have evolved. However, none of these hypotheses are supported by available evidence. Alternative hypotheses suggesting that climate variability may have precluded the development of specialised granivores need to be tested. In particular, more data are needed to confirm these patterns of granivory, and gain an understanding of the effects of Pleistocene and recent desert climate variability on seed production. An alternative perspective suggests that the presence of the heteromyid rodents may explain the high levels of granivory by small mammals in North American deserts. The variability in granivory by small mammals between deserts suggests that deserts will also differ in terms of anti-granivore adaptations of plants, seed fluxes and the mechanisms whereby small mammals coexist.

Studies on sylvatic echinococcosis. II. The occurrence of Echinococcus multilocularis Leuck. 1863 in Manitoba

1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Leiby ◽  
G. Lubinsky ◽  
W. Galaugher
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Echinococcus Multilocularis ◽  
Peromyscus Maniculatus ◽  
Deer Mice ◽  
First Report ◽  
The North ◽  
Gravel Pit

Cysts of Echinococcus multilocularis Leuck. 1863 were found in 15 of 99 deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner), from a dolomite quarry and a gravel pit 12 and 20 miles north northeast of Winnipeg respectively, in the Stony Mountain – Argyle area. This is the first report on the occurrence of E. multilocularis in Manitoba rodents. It extends northeast the known area of distribution of this cestode in the North American prairies.

scholarly journals North American Deer Mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, Consuming a Parasitizing Botfly Larva, Diptera: Cuterebridae

2011 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Frances E. C. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
Laboratory Study ◽  
North American ◽  
Peromyscus Maniculatus ◽  
Deer Mouse ◽  
Provincial Park

During a laboratory study in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, I videotaped a female North American Deer Mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus gracilis, consuming a botfly larva, Family Cuterebridae, that had just emerged from her chest. Although botfly parasitism has been widely studied in several species of small mammals, there are no prior reports of the host consuming the emerged botfly parasite.

1588: The Bicalutamide Early Prostate Cancer Program: Findings of the North American Trial at 7.7 Years' Median Follow-Up

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 511-512
Author(s):  
David G. McLeod ◽  
Ira Klimberg ◽  
Donald Gleason ◽  
Gerald Chodak ◽  
Thomas Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
North American ◽  
Early Prostate Cancer ◽  
The North ◽  
Cancer Program
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