The effect of supplemental food and cover availability on a population of the striped mouse
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Perrin M.R. & Johnson S.J. (1999) The effect of supplemental food and cover availability on a population of the striped mouse. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 29, 15-18.
Published source details Perrin M.R. & Johnson S.J. (1999) The effect of supplemental food and cover availability on a population of the striped mouse. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 29, 15-18.
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Provide supplementary food to increase reproduction/survival
A controlled study in 1995 on a grassland in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Perrin & Johnson 1999) found that providing supplementary food increased striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio density and the proportion of the population that was breeding. Three to six months after feeding began, there were more striped mice in the plot with supplementary food (30) than in the plot with no supplementary food (21). Over the same time period, a higher proportion of adult mice were reproductively active in the plot with supplementary food (85%) than in the plot with no supplementary food (38%). In one of two plots (>60 m apart) 25 trays, each with 1 kg of oat seeds, were filled weekly. The second plot had no supplementary food. In each plot, mice were monitored at 49 stations, in a 7 × 7 grid, at 10-m intervals. Each station was surveyed for two consecutive nights/month with one baited and insulated Elliot or Sherman live trap, from January–June 1995.
(Summarised by: Ricardo Rocha)
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