Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths
Animal personality may affect an animal’s mobility in a given landscape, influencing its propensity to take risks in an unknown environment. We investigated the mobility of translocated common voles in two corridor systems 60 m in length and differing in width (1 m and 3 m). Voles were behaviorally...
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ftdatacite:10.25932/publishup-43577 2023-05-15T17:12:34+02:00 Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths Kowalski, Gabriele Joana Grimm, Volker Herde, Antje Guenther, Anja Eccard, Jana A. 2019 application/zip application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43577 https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/43577 en eng Universität Potsdam Creative Commons - Namensnennung, 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43577 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Animal personality may affect an animal’s mobility in a given landscape, influencing its propensity to take risks in an unknown environment. We investigated the mobility of translocated common voles in two corridor systems 60 m in length and differing in width (1 m and 3 m). Voles were behaviorally phenotyped in repeated open field and barrier tests. Observed behavioral traits were highly repeatable and described by a continuous personality score. Subsequently, animals were tracked via an automated very high frequency (VHF) telemetry radio tracking system to monitor their movement patterns in the corridor system. Although personality did not explain movement patterns, corridor width determined the amount of time spent in the habitat corridor. Voles in the narrow corridor system entered the corridor faster and spent less time in the corridor than animals in the wide corridor. Thus, landscape features seem to affect movement patterns more strongly than personality. Meanwhile, site characteristics, such as corridor width, could prove to be highly important when designing corridors for conservation, with narrow corridors facilitating faster movement through landscapes than wider corridors. : Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 747 Text Microtus arvalis DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) The Corridor ENVELOPE(78.139,78.139,-68.582,-68.582) |
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Animal personality may affect an animal’s mobility in a given landscape, influencing its propensity to take risks in an unknown environment. We investigated the mobility of translocated common voles in two corridor systems 60 m in length and differing in width (1 m and 3 m). Voles were behaviorally phenotyped in repeated open field and barrier tests. Observed behavioral traits were highly repeatable and described by a continuous personality score. Subsequently, animals were tracked via an automated very high frequency (VHF) telemetry radio tracking system to monitor their movement patterns in the corridor system. Although personality did not explain movement patterns, corridor width determined the amount of time spent in the habitat corridor. Voles in the narrow corridor system entered the corridor faster and spent less time in the corridor than animals in the wide corridor. Thus, landscape features seem to affect movement patterns more strongly than personality. Meanwhile, site characteristics, such as corridor width, could prove to be highly important when designing corridors for conservation, with narrow corridors facilitating faster movement through landscapes than wider corridors. : Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 747 |
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Kowalski, Gabriele Joana Grimm, Volker Herde, Antje Guenther, Anja Eccard, Jana A. Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths |
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Kowalski, Gabriele Joana Grimm, Volker Herde, Antje Guenther, Anja Eccard, Jana A. |
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Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths |
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Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths |
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Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths |
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Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths |
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Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths |
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does animal personality affect movement in habitat corridors? : experiments with common voles (microtus arvalis) using different corridor widths |
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