Use of space by bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) in a polish farm landscape

✍ Scribed by Michŀ Kozakiewicz; Anna Kozakiewicz; Aleksy Łukowski; Tomasz Gortat

• Book ID: 104633744
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-2973
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00129864

✦ Synopsis

Movements of bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) were studied in a farmland mosaic in Poland. Distances crossed by animals in short-time periods are significantly longer in heterogenous than in homogenous habitats. In long-time and large-spatial scales, a significant portion of the animals in a population travel among habitat elements of the mosaic, reducing the degree of isolation of patch populations and decreasing the probability of local extinction.