Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) using Different Corridor Widths.
Kowalski GJ, Grimm V, Herde A, Günther A, Eccard JA. Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) using Different Corridor Widths. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI . 2019;9(6): 291. Animal personality may affect an animal...
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ftubbiepub:oai:pub.uni-bielefeld.de:2936093 2023-05-15T17:12:29+02:00 Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) using Different Corridor Widths. Kowalski, Gabriele Joanna Grimm, Volker Herde, Antje Günther, Anja Eccard, Jana A 2019 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2936093 eng eng MDPI AG info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/ani9060291 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2076-2615 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000475348700008 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/31146468 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2936093 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text 2019 ftubbiepub https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9060291 2022-02-08T22:35:28Z Kowalski GJ, Grimm V, Herde A, Günther A, Eccard JA. Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) using Different Corridor Widths. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI . 2019;9(6): 291. 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Microtus arvalis PUB - Publications at Bielefeld University The Corridor ENVELOPE(78.139,78.139,-68.582,-68.582) Animals 9 6 291 |
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Kowalski GJ, Grimm V, Herde A, Günther A, Eccard JA. Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) using Different Corridor Widths. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI . 2019;9(6): 291. 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. |
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Kowalski, Gabriele Joanna Grimm, Volker Herde, Antje Günther, 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 Joanna Grimm, Volker Herde, Antje Günther, Anja Eccard, Jana A |
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Kowalski, Gabriele Joanna |
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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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