Chance and change in British Long‐tailed field mice: ( Apodemus sylvaticus)

• Published in: Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Berry, R. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1973
• Subjects: Guernsey; Iceland; North West Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1973.tb01383.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7998.1973.tb01383.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1973.tb01383.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1973.tb01383.x

The Long‐tailed field mouse ( Apodemus sylvaticus (L.)) has undergone a marked degree of racial differentiation on the islands of the north‐west Atlantic (Iceland, Shetland, and the Hebrides). The differences have arisen as a result of the colonization of these islands after the Pleistocene by small...