ADW: Microtus pennsylvanicus: INFORMATION
Meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) have a wide range that includes most of North America. These rodents are found in Canada, throughout most of Alaska, and across approximately half of the United States. They inhabit areas as far north as the Northwest Territories of Canada, and as far south as Folly Beach, South Carolina.
Microtus - Wikipedia
The genus name refers to the small ears of these animals. They are stout rodents with short ears, legs and tails. They eat green vegetation such as grasses and sedges in summer, and grains, seeds, root and bark at other times. The genus is also called "meadow voles". [1] Microtus skulls (Bailey, 1900) Microtus skull bases (Bailey, 1900)
Eastern meadow vole - Wikipedia
The eastern meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), [2] sometimes called the field mouse or meadow mouse, is a North American vole found in eastern Canada and the United States. Its range extends farther south along the Atlantic coast.
Biometric analysis of the cranial features of common voles
2024年9月20日 · Although cranial bones reliably identify the features of mammals, these traits can be affected by sex, population size and seasonality. This paper biometrically analyses the cranial features of the common vole. The research sample consisted of adult (n = 134), subadult (n = 57), of western Slovakia.
The meadow vole is the most widely-distributed North American Microtus, ranging from the Alaskan and trans-Canadian Arctic south across much of the northern United States (Figure 2). Regionally, the meadow vole occurs throughout Virginia from the Delmarva Peninsula and coastal islands to the Appa-lachians (Jackson et al. 1976, Dueser et al. 1979,
Microtus pennsylvanicus | Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
The meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) makes its burrows along surface runways in grasses or other herbaceous vegetation. It is the most widely distributed small grazing herbivore in North America and is found over most of the northern half of the United States.
precarious future for distinctive peripheral populations of meadow ...
2019年12月28日 · The meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) is widely distributed across North America, including 28 morphologically defined subspecies and numerous isolated populations. Because some subspecies are of high conservation concern, we examined geographic variation across the range of the species to test existing infraspecific taxonomy in terms of ...
meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord 1815), a Nearctic rodent primarily inhabiting grassy meadows, fields, and marshes that often are associated with North American forests
Does Paedomorphosis Contribute to Prairie Vole Monogamy?
We examined skull morphology in prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow voles ( M. pennsylvanicus ), two closely related species with fundamentally different mating systems, to test the hypothesis that paedomorphosis contributes to the evolution of monogamous mating systems.
Island biogeography predicts skull gigantism and shape variation …
2022年1月17日 · We used geometric morphometrics to quantify cranial morphology of 544 meadow vole Microtus pennsylvanicus samples across 11 island and 3 mainland populations from the Outer Lands of New England (Atlantic) and the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska (Pacific). We compared the thermoregulation and endurance (TRE) and ecological release (ER ...