- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
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Oliver P. Pearson: Scientist, Statesman, Gentleman
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Part 1 : Ecology, Biogeography, Natural History -
Growth Rates of Male California Voles During a Peak Density Year: The Chitty Effect Revisited
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The Relative Importance of Predation, Food, and Interspecific Competition for Growth of Prairie Vole (Microtus Ochrogaster) Populations
-
The Evolution of Energetics in Birds and Mammals
-
Energy Budget in Subterranean Rodents: Insights from the Tuco-Tuco Ctenomys Talarum (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)
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Effects of Biotic Interactions on Spatial Behavior of Small Mammals in a Semiarid Community in North-Central Chile
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Physiological Flexibility in Field Urine Osmolality of Rodents from Semi-Arid Chile
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Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea Culeou) in Southwestern Argentina
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Trophic Relationships within a Highland Rodent Assemblage from Manu National Park, Cusco, Peru
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Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of the Bolivian High Andes: An Initial Comparison of Diversity Patterns in Polylepis Woodlands
1 -
Patterns of Small Mammal Species Richness in Mediterranean and Temperate Chile
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The Bat Fauna of Costa Rica’s Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco and Its Implications for Bat Conservation
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How Well Do Protected Areas Represent the Terrestrial Mammal Fauna of South America?
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Domestication of Guinea Pigs from a Southern Peru-Northern Chile Wild Species and their Middle Pre-Columbian Mummies
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Part 2 : Systematics, Taxonomy, Evolution -
Resolution of Some Problematic Type Localities for Sigmodontine Rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)
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The Wild Mammals of Jujuy Province, Argentina: Systematics and Distribution
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Systematics and Distribution of Marsupials in Argentina: A Review
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The Ecology and Evolutionary History of Oligoryzomys Longicaudatus in Southern South America
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The Octodontidae Revisited
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Morphological and Molecular Variation Within Little Big-Eared Bats of the Genus Micronycteris (Phyllostomidae: Micronycterinae) from San Lorenzo, Ecuador
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A New Species of Thomasomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Central Bolivia
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A New Species of Phyllotis (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmondontinae) from the Upper Montane Forest of the Yungas of Northwestern Argentina
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A Molecular Reappraisal of the Systematics of the Leaf-Eared Mice Phyllotis and their Relatives
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Diversification of South American Grass Mice, Genus Akodon
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Phylogeography of the Tuco-Tuco Ctenomys Pearsoni: MTDNa Variation and its Implication for Chromosomal Differentiation
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Phylogenetic Relationships of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents Using DNA Sequences from Beta Fibrinogen and Cytochrome B
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Nucleolar Activity and Distribution of Ribosomal Genes in Phyllotis Rodent Species and their Laboratory Hybrids
-
Ecological and Phylogenetic Significance of AFLP DNA Diversity in 4 Species of Blind Subterranean Mole Rats (Spalax) in Israel
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Interspecific Scaling and Ontogenetic Growth Patterns of the Skull in Living and Fossil Ctenomyid and Octodontid Rodents (Caviomorpha: Octodontoidea)
- Reviewers
- Contributors
Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea Culeou) in Southwestern Argentina
Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea Culeou) in Southwestern Argentina
Ratada 2001: Una IrrupciÓn De Roedores Siguiendo Al Florecimiento De BambÚ (Chusquea Culeou) En El Suroeste De La Argentina
- Chapter:
- (p.177) Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea Culeou) in Southwestern Argentina
- Source:
- The Quintessential Naturalist
- Author(s):
Richard D. Sage
Oliver P. Pearson
Javier Sanguinetti
Anita K. Pearson
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter observes that in the spring of 2000, Chusquea culeou bamboo, the dominant understory plant in the Valdivian forest habitat in southwestern Argentina, flowered over a latitudinal range of 100km and produced a massive amount of seed. It notes that reproductive activity of rodents in the area continued into the subsequent autumn and winter, when rodent numbers reached peak levels and large numbers of drowned rodents appeared on beaches. The chapter further notes that owls and foxes reached high numbers, and that the mean age in populations of Oligoryzomys longicaudatus and Abrothrix longipilis declined. It also observes that in the following (second) spring, reproduction was delayed or suppressed, and by the following (second) autumn populations had declined to unusually low levels. The chapter notes that by the third year after flowering, rodent numbers had returned to levels characteristic of the population in this area.
Keywords: Chusquea culeou bamboo, Valdivian forest, southwestern Argentina, rodents, owls and foxes, Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, Abrothrix longipilis, reproduction, population
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
-
Oliver P. Pearson: Scientist, Statesman, Gentleman
-
Part 1 : Ecology, Biogeography, Natural History -
Growth Rates of Male California Voles During a Peak Density Year: The Chitty Effect Revisited
-
The Relative Importance of Predation, Food, and Interspecific Competition for Growth of Prairie Vole (Microtus Ochrogaster) Populations
-
The Evolution of Energetics in Birds and Mammals
-
Energy Budget in Subterranean Rodents: Insights from the Tuco-Tuco Ctenomys Talarum (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)
-
Effects of Biotic Interactions on Spatial Behavior of Small Mammals in a Semiarid Community in North-Central Chile
-
Physiological Flexibility in Field Urine Osmolality of Rodents from Semi-Arid Chile
-
Ratada 2001: A Rodent Outbreak Following the Flowering of Bamboo (Chusquea Culeou) in Southwestern Argentina
-
Trophic Relationships within a Highland Rodent Assemblage from Manu National Park, Cusco, Peru
-
Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of the Bolivian High Andes: An Initial Comparison of Diversity Patterns in Polylepis Woodlands
1 -
Patterns of Small Mammal Species Richness in Mediterranean and Temperate Chile
-
The Bat Fauna of Costa Rica’s Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco and Its Implications for Bat Conservation
-
How Well Do Protected Areas Represent the Terrestrial Mammal Fauna of South America?
-
Domestication of Guinea Pigs from a Southern Peru-Northern Chile Wild Species and their Middle Pre-Columbian Mummies
-
Part 2 : Systematics, Taxonomy, Evolution -
Resolution of Some Problematic Type Localities for Sigmodontine Rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)
-
The Wild Mammals of Jujuy Province, Argentina: Systematics and Distribution
-
Systematics and Distribution of Marsupials in Argentina: A Review
-
The Ecology and Evolutionary History of Oligoryzomys Longicaudatus in Southern South America
-
The Octodontidae Revisited
-
Morphological and Molecular Variation Within Little Big-Eared Bats of the Genus Micronycteris (Phyllostomidae: Micronycterinae) from San Lorenzo, Ecuador
-
A New Species of Thomasomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from Central Bolivia
-
A New Species of Phyllotis (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmondontinae) from the Upper Montane Forest of the Yungas of Northwestern Argentina
-
A Molecular Reappraisal of the Systematics of the Leaf-Eared Mice Phyllotis and their Relatives
-
Molecular Phylogenetics and Diversification of South American Grass Mice, Genus Akodon
-
Phylogeography of the Tuco-Tuco Ctenomys Pearsoni: MTDNa Variation and its Implication for Chromosomal Differentiation
-
Phylogenetic Relationships of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents Using DNA Sequences from Beta Fibrinogen and Cytochrome B
-
Nucleolar Activity and Distribution of Ribosomal Genes in Phyllotis Rodent Species and their Laboratory Hybrids
-
Ecological and Phylogenetic Significance of AFLP DNA Diversity in 4 Species of Blind Subterranean Mole Rats (Spalax) in Israel
-
Interspecific Scaling and Ontogenetic Growth Patterns of the Skull in Living and Fossil Ctenomyid and Octodontid Rodents (Caviomorpha: Octodontoidea)
- Reviewers
- Contributors