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A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas

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By Edwin Perry Martin
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The study documents the population ecology of the prairie vole in northeastern Kansas, combining systematic live‑trapping, habitat description, movement measures and demographic analyses. Methods examine trap spacing and area estimation; densities fluctuated widely (25.2–145.8 individuals per acre; 847–5,275 grams per acre). Results cover population structure, home range and seasonal reproduction, including litter size, growth rates and life span; autumn‑born individuals showed higher survival into the following year. Food habits, runway and nest construction, activity rhythms, predation pressures and associations with other mammals are described. The author links demographic patterns to habitat seasonality and concludes that vole abundance substantially affects grassland vegetation and local community dynamics.

5. Check-list of the birds of Kansas. By Harrison B. Tordoff. Pp. 307-359, 1 figure in text. March 10, 1956.

6. A population study of the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas. By Edwin P. Martin. Pp. 361-416, 19 figures in text. April 2, 1956.

More numbers will appear in volume 8.

Vol. 9.

1. Speciation of the wandering shrew. By James S. Findley. Pp. 1-68, 18 figures in text. December 10, 1955.

2. Additional records and extensions of ranges of mammals from Utah. By Stephen D. Durrant, M. Raymond Lee, and Richard M. Hansen. Pp. 69-80. December 10, 1955.

3. A new long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis) from northeastern Mexico. By Rollin H. Baker and Howard J. Stains. Pp. 81-84. December 10, 1955.

More numbers will appear in volume 9.

Transcriber's note:

A Table of Contents has been added to this ebook for the reader's convenience.

Some words in this text are found in both hyphenated and non-hyphenated form (for instance: Condylo-basilar/condylobasilar, mid-winter/midwinter). These variations match the text of the original document. A few obvious punctuation errors have been repaired. Spelling has been retained as it appears in the original publication, except as follows:

p. 372, in "A more homogeneous vegetation would tend to pass" homogenous has been changed to homogeneous.

p. 415, "1953. Foods, and dens of the opossum ..." has been changed to "1953. Food and dens of the opossum ..."

In Fig. 11 the bottommost y-axis label in the scale of gms. is probably an error: 45 should be 35.

Some illustrations have been moved from their original locations to paragraph breaks, so as to be nearer to their corresponding text, and for ease of document navigation. Missing page numbers correspond to moved full-page illustrations. References to scale in illustration captions are those of the original publication, and therefore do not correspond to the scale of the images in the HTML version of this ebook.

The list of University of Kansas Publications from the front of the original document has been joined to its mate at the end of this text.

Because the cover of the original document contained text exactly duplicated on the title page, this cover information has been omitted.