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Vole Acknowledgments

Last Updated: February 19, 2008 Related resource areas: Wildlife Damage Management

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Pine vole, Microtus pinetorum (left), and prairie vole, M. ochrogaster (right).
Pine vole, Microtus pinetorum (left), and prairie vole, M. ochrogaster (right).

Askham, L. E. 1988. A two-year study of the physical and economic impact of voles (Microtus montanus) on mixed maturity apple (Malus spp.) orchards in the Pacific northwestern United States. Proc. Vertebr. Pest. Conf. 13:151-155.

Burt, W. H., and R. P. Grossenheider. 1976. A field guide to the mammals, 3d ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 189 pp.

Byers, R. E. 1985. Management and control. Pages 621-646 in R. A. Tamarin, ed. Biology of new world Microtus. Am. Soc. Mammal. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

Byers, R. E., and M. H. Merson 1982. Current improvements in baiting pine and meadow voles. Proc. Vertebr. Pest Conf. 10:139-142.

Clark, J. P. 1986. Vertebrate pest control handbook. California Dep.Food Agric. Sacramento, California 610 pp.

Cole, R., and G. O. Batzli. 1979. Nutrition and population dynamics of the prairie vole Microtus ochrogaster in central Illinois. Appl. Ecol. 48:455-470.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America, Vol. 2, 2d ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York, Pp. 601-1181.

Jameson, E. W. 1947. Natural history of the prairie vole. Univ. Kansas Publ. Museum Nat. Hist. 1(7):125-151.

Johnson, E. W.. 1958. Consumption of alfalfa and wild oats by Microtus californicus. J. Wildl. Manag. 22:433-435.

Johnson, M. L., and S. Johnson. 1982. Voles. Pages 326-354 in J. A. Chapman and G. A. Feldhammer, eds. Wild mammals of North America: biology, management and economics. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, Maryland.

Libby, J. L., and J. I. Abrams. 1966. Anticoagulant rodenticide in paper tubes for control of meadow mice. J. Wildl. Manage. 30:512-518.

Marsh, R. E., R. E. Cole, and W. E. Howard. 1967. Laboratory tests on the effectiveness of prolin mouse tubes. J. Wildl. Manage. 31:342 344. Pearce, J. 1947. Identifying injury by wildlife to trees and shrubs in northeast forests. US Dep. Inter. Fish Wildl. Serv., Washington, DC. Res. Rep. 13. 29 pp.

Pearson, O. P. 1985. Predation. Pages 535-566 in R. A. Tamarin, ed. Biology of new world Microtus. Amer. Soc. Mammal. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

Radvanyi, A. 1980. Control of small mammal damage in the Alberta oil sands reclamation and afforestation program. For. Sci. 26:687 702.

Reich, L. M. 1981. Microtus pennsylvanicus. Mammal. Species 159:1-8. Richmond, M. E., C. G. Forshey, L. A. Mahoffy, and P. N. Miller. 1987.

Effects of differential pine vole populations on growth and yield of McIntosh apple trees. Proc. Eastern Wildl. Damage ControlConf. 3:296-304.

Schwartz, C. W., and E. R. Schwartz. 1981. The wild mammals of Missouri, rev. ed. Univ. Missouri Press, Columbia. 356 pp.

Smolen, M. J. 1981. Microtus pinetorum. Mammal. Species 147:1-7.

Smolen, M. J., and B. L. Keller. 1987. Microtus longicaudus. Mammal. Species. 27 1:1-7.

Taitt, M. J., and C. J. Krebs. 1985. Population dynamics and cycles. Pages 567-620 in R.A.

Tamarin, ed., Biology of new world Microtus. Amer. Soc. Mammal. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

White, L. 1965. Biological and ecological considerations in meadow mouse population management. Bull. California Dep. Agric. 54:161-171.

Images and Illustrations

Figures 1 and 5 from Schwartz and Schwartz (1981).

Figures 2 through 4 adapted from Johnson and Johnson (1982) by Dave Thornhill, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.


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