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- Title
Natural History of the Eastern Harvest Mouse in Southeastern Virginia.
- Authors
Rose, Robert K.
- Abstract
The Eastern Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys humulis, has been studied extensively in southeastern Virginia since 1979, using a combination of live and pitfall trapping methods. This smallest rodent of eastern North America also is one of most versatile, occupying a range of habitats in southeastern Virginia from old fields in different stages of succession, brushy edges, and forests of different types. As with other species of Reithrodontomys, R. humulis often is associated with the Hispid Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus, with both reaching modest densities in old fields. Two capture-mark-release studies of small mammal communities in southern Chesapeake lasting eight and nine years revealed that the Eastern Harvest Mouse was third in total abundance, behind Hispid Cotton Rat and Meadow Vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus, as old fields transitioned into forests. Multiple field studies using pitfall traps in a range of habitats in southeastern Virginia also indicated that harvest mice often arrive early in succession and stay later than other rodents.
- Subjects
REITHRODONTOMYS; ZOOLOGY; COASTAL plains; HABITAT selection; RODENT ecology; MAMMAL ecology; ANIMAL species
- Publication
Banisteria, 2019, Issue 53, p3
- ISSN
1066-0712
- Publication type
Article