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Voles and weasels in the boreal Fennoscandian small mammal community : What happens if the least weasel disappears due to climate change?
2019
Climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats for populations and a challenge for individual behavior, interactions and survival. Predator–prey interactions are modified by climate processes. In the northern latitudes, strong seasonality is changing and the main predicted feature is shortening and instability of winter. Vole populations in the boreal Fennoscandia exhibit multiannual cycles. High amplitude peak numbers of voles and dramatic population lows alternate in 3–5‐year cycles shortening from North to South. One key factor, or driver, promoting the population crash and causing extreme extended lows, is suggested to be predation by the least weasel. We review the ar…
Pre- and Postnatal Predator Cues Shape Offspring Anti-predatory Behavior Similarly in the Bank Vole
2021
Prey animals can assess the risks predators present in different ways. For example, direct cues produced by predators can be used, but also signals produced by prey conspecifics that have engaged in non-lethal predator-prey interactions. These non-lethal interactions can thereby affect the physiology, behavior, and survival of prey individuals, and may affect offspring performance through maternal effects. We investigated how timing of exposure to predation-related cues during early development affects offspring behavior after weaning. Females in the laboratory were exposed during pregnancy or lactation to one of three odor treatments: (1) predator odor (PO) originating from their most comm…
Secondhand horror: effects of direct and indirect predator cues on behavior and reproduction of the bank vole
2019
Risk recognition by prey is of paramount importance within the evolutionary arms race between predator and prey. Prey species are able to detect direct predator cues like odors and adjust their behavior appropriately. The question arises whether an indirect predation cue, such as the odor of scared individuals, can be detected by conspecifics and subsequently affects recipient behavior. Parents may also transfer their experience with predators to their offspring. In two experiments, we assessed how direct and indirect predation cues affect bank vole (Myodes glareolus) foraging behavior, reproduction, and pup fitness. Weasel (Mustela nivalis) odor served as the direct cue, whereas the odor o…
Predation risk shaping individual behaviour, life histories and species interactions in small mammals
2009
Trebatická havaitsi, että Suomen yleisin nisäkäs, metsämyyrä, on erittäin hyvin sopeutunut lyhyen lisääntymiskauden tehokkaaseen käyttöön ja pahimpien petojen välttämiseen. Parempi pedonvälttäminen kuin esimerkiksi toisella yleisellä lajilla, peltomyyrällä, lienee syynä siihen, ettei metsämyyräkanta myyräromahduksen aikana, kuten tänä keväänä Keski-Suomessa, koskaan romahda niin alas kuin peltomyyrällä.Yksi väitöskirjatyön keskeisiä kysymyksiä on pedon, lumikon, vaikutukset saalismyyrien käyttäytymiseen, eli onko säikäytetty myyrä sama kuin kuollut myyrä.Trebatickán tutkimus keskittyi pedon ja petoriskin vaikutukseen saaliin käyttäytymiseen, lisääntymiseen ja fysiologiaan, sekä monilajisen …