Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Migrations of Rodents in the Zone of Local Radioactive Contamination at Different Phases of Population Dynamics and Their Consequences

  • Ecology
  • Published:
Biology Bulletin Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Migrations of rodents in the zone of local radioactive contamination (East Urals Radioactive Trace, Southern Urals) at different phases of population dynamics are analyzed for the first time. The absence of any isolation of the rodents in the zone of this radioactive trace is convincingly demonstrated and the migration distances are estimated. As is shown, migration decreases the probability for transfer and fixation of adaptations in the chain of generations in vagile rodent species and increases the within-population genetic diversity of animals in adjacent regions. The need to consider the migration factor in a wide range of studies on assessment of biological effects in the zones of local technogenic contamination is confirmed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Alerstam, A., Hedenstrom, A., and Akesson, S., Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants, Oikos, 2003, vol. 103, pp. 247–260.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Altukhov, Yu.P., Geneticheskie protsessy v populyatsiyakh (Genetic Processes in Populations), Moscow: Akademkniga, 2003.

    Google Scholar 

  • Atlas Vostochno-Ural’skogo i Karachaevskogo radioaktivnykh sledov, vklyuchaya prognoz do 2047 goda (Atlas of the East Ural and Karachai Radioactive Traces Including Forecasts up to 2047), Moscow: IGKE Rosgidrometa i RAN, 2013.

  • Blanquart, F. and Gandon, S., On the evolution of migration in heterogeneous environments, Evolution, 2014, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 1617–1628.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bol’shakov, V.N. and Bazhenov, A.V., Radionuklidnye metody mecheniya v populyatsionnoi ekologii mlekopitayushchikh (Radionuclide Labeling Methods in Population Ecology of Mammals), Moscow: Nauka, 1988.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bol’shakov, V.N., Boikov, V.N., and Boikova, F.I., Influence of local extermination on the abundance and structure of populations of rodents of forest biocenoses, Ekologiya, 1973, no. 6, pp. 57–65.

    Google Scholar 

  • Corridor Ecology. The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation, Hilty, J.A., Lidicker, W.Z., Jr., and Merenlender, A.M., Eds., Washington: Island Press, 2006.

  • Evdokimov, N.G., Populyatsionnaya ekologiya obyknovennoi slepushonki (Population Ecology of Mole Vole), Yekaterinburg: Ekaterinburg, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  • Flint, V.E., Prostranstvennaya struktura populyatsii melkikh mlekopitayushchikh (The Spatial Structure of Populations of Small Mammals), Moscow: Nauka, 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gileva, E.A., Chromosomal instability in rodents from the EURT territory: interspecies comparison, Radiats. Biol. Radioekol., 2002, no. 6, pp. 665–668.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gileva, E.A., Lyubashevskii, M.N., Starichenko, V.I., Romanov, G.N., and Chibiryak, M.V., Hereditary chromosome instability in common vole (Microtus arvalis) from the region of the Kyshtym nuclear meltdown: fact or hypothesis?, Russ. J. Genet., 1996, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 99–104.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Grigorkina, E.B., Low-dose radiation effects: adaptive response in rodents (Ellobius talpinus Pall.) inhabiting radionuclide-contaminated environment, Dokl. Biol. Sci., 2010, vol. 430, pp. 42–44.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Grigorkina, E.B. and Olenev, G.V., Radioadaptation of rodents in the zone of local radioactive contamination (Kyshtim Accident, Russia): 50 years on, Radioprotection, 2009, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 129–134.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grigorkina, E.B. and Olenev, G.V., Migration of rodents in the Eastern Urals Radioactive Trace zone (radiobiological aspect), Radiats. Biol. Radioekol., 2013, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 76–83.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Grigorkina, E.B. and Pashnina, I.A., On the problem of radioadaptation in small mammals (ecological specialization of species, radioresistance, hemopoiesis, immunity), Radiats. Biol. Radioekol., 2007, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 371–378.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Il’enko, A.I., The study of migrations in populations of rodents by radiolabeling, in Radioekologiya pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh (Radioecology of Vertebrates), Moscow: Nauka, 1978, pp. 224–234.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kaidanov, L.Z., Genetika populyatsii (Genetics of Populations), Moscow: Vyssh. Shk., 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  • Klevezal’, G.A. and Mina, M.V., Methods of group labeling of rodents using tetracycline and the possibility of its use in ecological studies, Zool. Zh., 1980, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 937–941.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krylov, D.G., Mobility and pathways of migrations of animals in the forest populations of voles and Ural field mouse, Ekologiya, 1992, no. 1, pp. 65–72.

    Google Scholar 

  • Li, Y., Korol, A.B., Fahima, T., Beiles, A., and Nevo, E., Microsatellites: genomic distribution, putative functions, and mutational mechanisms: a review, Mol. Ecol., 2002, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 2453–2465.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lidicker, W.Z., Jr., Dispersal, Amer. Soc. Mammal. Special Publ., 1985, no. 8, pp. 420–454.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lobkov, V.A., Experience of group labeling of young speckled ground squirrels (Citellus suslicus) with tetracycline for the study of their dispersal, Zool. Zh., 1984, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 309–311.

    Google Scholar 

  • Luk’yanov, O.A., Phenomenology and analysis of migrations in populations of small mammals, Extended Abstract of Doctoral (Biol.) Dissertation, Yekaterinburg: IERiZh UrO RAN, 1997.

    Google Scholar 

  • Luk’yanov, O.A. and Luk’yanova, L.E., Phenomenology and analysis of migrations in populations of small mammals, Zool. Zh., 2002, vol. 81, no. 9, pp. 1107–1134.

    Google Scholar 

  • Milch, R.A., Rall, D.P., and Tobie, J.E., Fluorescence of tetracycline antibiotic in bone, J. Bone Joitn. Surg., 1958, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 897–910.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Molchanova, I., Pozolotina, V., Karavaeva, E., Michaylovskaya, L., Antonova, E., and Antonov, K., Radioactive inventories within the East Ural radioactive state reserve on the Southern Urals, Radioprotection, 2009, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 747–757.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Olenev, G.V. and Grigorkina, E.B., Evolutionary ecological analysis of adaptation strategies of rodent populations under extreme conditions, Russ. J. Ecol., 2016, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 486–492.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rakitin, S.B., Grigorkina, E.B., and Olenev, G.V., Analysis of microsatellite DNA in rodents from Eastern Urals radioactive trace zone and contiguous territories, Russ. J. Genet., 2016, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 398–404.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ronce, O., How does it feel to be like a rolling stone? Ten questions about dispersal evolution, Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2007, no. 38, pp. 231–253.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shchipanov, N.A., Some aspects of the population sustainability of small mammals, Usp. Sovrem. Biol., 2000, vol. 120, pp. 73–87.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shchipanov, N.A., Population as a unit of species existence. Small mammals, Zool. Zh., 2003, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 450–469.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shchipanov, N.A., The functional structure of a population and species diversity. Small mammals, Sb. Tr. Zool. Muzeya MGU im. M.V. Lomonosova, 2016, vol. 54, pp. 478–513.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shchipanov, N.A., Shilova, S.A., and Smirin, Yu.M., The structure and functions of various settlements of the Ural field mouse (Apodemus uralensis), Usp. Sovrem. Biol., 1997, vol. 117, no. 5, pp. 624–639.

    Google Scholar 

  • Slatkin, M., Rare alleles as indicators of gene flow, Evolution, 1985, vol. 39, pp. 53–65.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Tarakhtii, E.A. and Mukhacheva, S.V., The response of the blood system of forest voles to stress against the background of chronic chemical environmental pollution, Usp. Sovrem. Biol., 2011, vol. 131, no. 6, pp. 613–621.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Theodarakis, C.W., Bickham, J.W., Lamb, T., Medica, P.A., and Lyne, T.B., Integration of genotoxicity and population genetic analyses in kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) exposed to radionuclide contamination at the Nevada Test Site, USA, Envir. Toxicol. Chem., 2001, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 317–326.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tolkachev, O.V., The dispersal of Urals field mouse (Sylvaemus uralensis Pallas, 1811) and the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus Schreber, 1780) in a fragmented landscape, Sib. Ekol. Zh., 2016a, no. 1, pp. 137–147.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tolkachev, O.V., A study on the migrations of murine rodents in urban environments, Russ. J. Ecol., 2016b, vol. 2016, no. 47, pp. 4–399.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yalkovskaya, L.E., Grigorkina, E.B., and Tarasov, O.V., The cytogenetic consequences of chronic irradiation in rodent populations inhabiting the Eastern Urals Radioactive Trace zone, Radiats. Biol. Radioekol., 2010, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 466–471.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia

    E. B. Grigorkina & G. V. Olenev

Authors
  1. E. B. Grigorkina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. G. V. Olenev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to E. B. Grigorkina.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © E.B. Grigorkina, G.V. Olenev, 2018, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2018, No. 1, pp. 123–132.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Grigorkina, E.B., Olenev, G.V. Migrations of Rodents in the Zone of Local Radioactive Contamination at Different Phases of Population Dynamics and Their Consequences. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 45, 110–118 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018010041

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018010041

Search

Navigation