Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? : Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths

• Main Authors: Kowalski, Gabriele Joana, Grimm, Volker, Herde, Antje, Guenther, Anja, Eccard, Jana A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2019
• Subjects: The Corridor; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43577; https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/43577

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...