Eastern chimpunks (Tamias striatus) in deciduous forests of eastern townships

Multidisciplinary and collaborative project on chipmunk population dynamic, genetic, behaviour, physiology, and habitat selection under natural resource variations.
Field sites close to Mansonville, in Ruiter Valley and Montagnes Vertes area.
Field sites in mature, open, hardwood forest dominated by American beech and sugar maple trees.
Multi-year trapping records.
Hardwood trees and herbaceous plants sampling.
Seed production sampling.
Soil temperature sampling.

Personne(s) ayant accès aux données

Personne(s) ayant collecté les données

Source(s) de financement

FQRNT NSERC

Format du jeu de données

Excel and Access databases

Nombre de sites

4

Description du site

Mature open forest dominated by American beech and sugar maple trees with trout lilies and claytonias as the most common herbaceous plants. Sites are located in similar forested habitats within a 5-km radius, where exploratory trapping showed sufficient chipmunk abundance.

Habitat

Mature open forest dominated by American beech and sugar maple trees with trout lilies and claytonias as the most common herbaceous plants interspersed with small creeks.

Environnement

Terrestre

Taxa étudiés

Tamias striatus; Fagus grandifolia; Acer saccharum; Acer rubrum

Information taxonomique

Mammifères, Plante vasculaire

Détails taxonomiques

Nom latin	Nom anglais	Nom français
Tamias striatus	Eastern Chipmunk	tamia rayé
Fagus grandifolia	American beech
Acer saccharum	sugar maple
Acer rubrum	red maple

Approche expérimentale

Complete population census by systematic and targeted trapping from May to August. Systematic seed production, hardwood trees, herbaceous plants, and soil temperature sampling.

Statut de l'étude

En cours

Stratégie d'echantillonnage

Observation visuelle directe (e.g. travail de terrain), Échantillonnage passif (e.g. trappe à insecte ou à animal)

Objectifs de l'étude

Niveau de l'individu (e.g. comportement, physiologie, autécologie)., Niveau de la communauté (e.g. richesse, distribution, composition), Niveau de la population ou de l'espèce (e.g. étude systématique), Inventaire exhaustif, Inventaire partiel, Un seule espèces

Fréquence d'échantillonnage

On going data collection.

Première année de collecte de données

2005

Dernière année de collecte de données

2012

Complete Publication List in peer reviewed journals (ordered alphabetically by first author’s last name):
Bergeron, P., Réale, D., Humphries, M.M. & Garant, D. 2011. Anticipation and tracking of pulsed resources drive population dynamics in eastern chipmunks. Ecology, 92 (11): 2027-2034.

Bergeron, P., Careau, V., Humphries, M.M., Réale, D., Speakman, J.R. & Garant, D. 2011. The energetic and oxidative costs of reproduction in a free-ranging rodent. Functional Ecology, 25: 1063-1071.

Bergeron, P., Réale, D., Humphries, M.M. & Garant, D. 2011. Evidence of multiple paternity and selection for inbreeding avoidance in wild eastern chipmunks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24: 1685-1694.

Bergeron, P., Baeta, R., Pelletier, F., Réale, D. & Garant, D. 2011. Individual quality: tautology or biological reality? Journal of Animal Ecology, 80: 361-364.

Careau V, Réale D, Garant D, Speakman, JR & Humphries. In press. Stress-induced rise in body temperature is repeatable in free-ranging Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B.

Careau V., D. Réale, D. Garant, and M.M. Humphries. In press. Free-ranging eastern chipmunks infected with bot fly larvae have higher resting but lower maximum metabolism. Canadian Journal of Zoology.

Careau V, Thomas D, Pelletier F, Turki L, Landry F, Garant D & D Réale. 2011. Genetic correlation between resting metabolic rate and exploratory behaviour in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, doi : 10.1111/ j . 1 4 20-9101 . 2 01 1 . 0 2344. x

Careau, V., D. Réale, M.M. Humphries, D.W. Thomas. 2010. The pace of life under artificial selection: personality, energy expenditure, and longevity are correlated in domestic dogs. American Naturalist, 175:753-758.

Careau V, Thomas D & MM Humphries. 2010. Energetic cost of bot fly parasitism in free-ranging eastern chipmunks. Oecologia, 162:303-312.

Careau V, Bininda-Edmonds ORP, Thomas D, Réale D & MM Humphries. 2009. Exploration strategies map along fast-slow metabolic and life-history continua in muroid rodents. Functional Ecology, 23:150-156.

Careau V, Thomas D, Humphries, MM & D Réale. 2008. Energy Metabolism and Animal Personality. Oikos, 117: 641-653.

Chambers, J.L. and D. Garant. 2010. Determinants of population genetic structure in eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus): the role of landscape barriers and sex-biased dispersal. Journal of Heredity, 101: 413-422.

Landry-Cuerrier M., D. Munro, D.W. Thomas and M.M. Humphries. 2008. Climate and resource determinants of fundamental and realized metabolic niches of hibernating chipmunks. Ecology, 89:3306-3316.

LaZerte, S.E. and D.L. Kramer. 2011. Using thermosensitive radiotelemetry to document rest and activity in a semifossorial rodent. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 35: 481–488.

Montiglio P.-O., F. Pelletier, D. Garant, R. Palme, D. Réale and R. Boonstra. In press. Non-invasive monitoring of fecal cortisol metabolites in the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus): validation and comparison of two enzyme immunoassays. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Montiglio P.-O., D. Garant, D.W. Thomas and D. Réale. 2010. Individual variation in temporal activity patterns in open-field tests. Animal Behaviour, 80: 905-912.

Réale, D., D. Garant, M.M. Humphries, P. Bergeron, V. Careau, P.O. Montiglio, D.W. Thomas. 2010. Personality and the emergence of a pace-of-life syndrome at the level of the population. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 365:4051-4063.