Influence of mortality and dispersal on sex ratio of the edible dormouse (Glis glis)

Title:

Influence of mortality and dispersal on sex ratio of the edible dormouse (Glis glis)

Creator:

Koppmann-Rumpf, Bettina, Scherbaum-Heberer, Carina, and Schmidt, Karl-Heinz

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:7b219234-059d-4319-b617-b326e68a26a9
uuid:7b219234-059d-4319-b617-b326e68a26a9

Subject:

individual marking, daily nest box checks, young dormice, biased sex ratio, and sex allocation

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

While most mammal populations show equalized sex ratios in their offspring, some species reveal deviations as a reaction to environmental circumstances. The recent study focuses on mortality, dispersal and biased sex ratio in the offspring of the edible dormouse (Glis glis) and their influence on next year’s subadult population. Between 2002 and 2008 a male biased sex ratio in the offspring but an almost equal sex ratio of next year’s subadult population has been found. Our results reveal that this deviation from the 1:1 sex ratio compensates a higher mortality rate of young males. The data used for this study were obtained from a mark and recapture project of monitoring the population biology of the edible dormouse performed north-east of Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2015 Volume:64 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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