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Vinony's link graph records 259 inbound references to tundra vole, and connects out to Arvicolinae, long-clawed mole vole and Wood Lemming.
It sits within the topics Alexandromys, Arctic land animals and Fauna of the Holarctic realm.
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Species
Least ConcernObservations: Voles, in general, are short-lived and show seasonal population crashes, probably due to lack of food. These animals are estimated to live up to 1.8 years (Bernhard Grzimek 1990), but without further studies their maximum longevity cannot be determined.
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Wikidata facts
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- VOLE, TUNDRA (microtus oeconomus) (9-4-08) gambell, ak -2 (2834490753).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Microtus oeconomus
- Commons category
- Microtus oeconomus
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- Microtus oeconomus
- taxon common name
- fjellmarkmus
- habitat
- forest
- diel cycle
- cathemeral
- short name
- M. oeconomus
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Encyclopedic overview
The tundra vole (Alexandromys oeconomus) or root vole is a medium-sized vole found in Northern and Central Europe, Asia, and northwestern North America, including Alaska and northwestern Canada. In the western part of the Netherlands, the tundra vole is a relict from the ice age and has developed into the subspecies A. o. arenicola.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tundra vole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.