Alien Mink Predation and Colonisation Processes of Rodent Prey on Small Islands of the Baltic Sea: Does Prey Naïveté Matter?

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center" colspan="2">Beginning of experiment</td><td align="center" colspan="2">End of experiment</td></tr><tr><td align="left"></td><td align="center">Mink free islands</td><td align="center">Mink islands</td><td align="center">Mink free islands</td><td align="center">Mink islands</td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Experienced voles</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">2</td><td align="center">0</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Inexperienced voles</td><td align="center">6</td><td align="center">6</td><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">1</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="5"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

 Number of voles released at the beginning of the experiment and survivors at the end of the experiment.

International Journal of Ecology

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Table 1: Alien Mink Predation and Colonisation Processes of Rodent Prey on Small Islands of the Baltic Sea: Does Prey Naïveté Matter? 