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

• Published in: Animals
• Main Authors: Gabriele Joanna Kowalski, Volker Grimm, Antje Herde, Anja Guenther, Jana A. Eccard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: activity; animal personality; wildlife corridors; habitat connectivity; individual differences; rodents; Veterinary medicine; SF600-1100; Zoology; QL1-991; The Corridor; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9060291; https://doaj.org/article/82197a1ec26d42f58061d407d2057798

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...