scholarly journals Hydraulic Study on Reproductive Condition of Corbicula Japonica in Lake Ogawara.

2002 ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Yasushi TSURUTA ◽  
Tadaharu ISHIKAWA ◽  
Shuzo NISHIDA ◽  
Mai NARITA ◽  
Hirokazu FUJIWARA
Author(s):  
Sosuke OTANI ◽  
Tomoya YASHIKI ◽  
Kenta UEMURA ◽  
Kunihiro TOKUDA ◽  
Kohei FUJISHIMA ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1400-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Faas ◽  
W. W. Bakker ◽  
N. Valkhof ◽  
M.C.L. van der Horst ◽  
G. A. Schuiling

2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
AKIRA KOMARU ◽  
HISAKO HORI ◽  
YASUHIRO YANASE ◽  
KENJI ONOUCHI ◽  
TAKESHI KATO ◽  
...  

1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (8) ◽  
pp. 1004-1011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian N. Turner ◽  
Michael R. Perrin ◽  
Stuart L. Iverson

Beginning in November 1973, numerous meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) moved onto a spruce forest grid occupied by red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi). A resident meadow vole population resulted, the two species coexisting until April 1974, when most meadow voles disappeared from the grid during a relatively short period. Interspecific aggression levels, as determined from voles temporarily removed from the populations and tested in paired encounters in a laboratory arena, were low during the winter, but increased when males of both species entered reproductive condition in the spring. Microtus was generally dominant in early breeding period encounters, but this dominance declined concurrently with the meadow voles' disappearance from the forest. It is argued that meadow voles did not leave the forest to breed, or because the snow cover melted, since this species will live and reproduce in forest in the absence of Clethrionomys. The results are interpreted as support for an earlier hypothesis that competitive habitat exclusion varies seasonally with reproduction-related aggression. Thus, these species apparently may coexist in either of their preferred habitats when interspecific aggression is low (the nonbreeding season), but this relationship terminates when interspecific aggression levels increase with the resumption of breeding in the spring.


1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 939-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary L. MacIsaac

The behaviour of hip glands, as gauged by gland length, in Microtus townsendii is shown to be highly correlated with reproductive condition in both males and females. Breeding voles of both sexes are shown to have larger hip glands than nonbreeding voles. It was shown that the hip glands of male Microtus townsendii are under androgen control. The first known observations of marking behaviour in M. townsendii are described.


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