Beacham Terry D
Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Place, V6T 1W5, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Oecologia. 1979 Jan;42(1):11-21. doi: 10.1007/BF00347614.
In increasing and peak populations of the vole Microtus townsendii, littermates, whether they did or did not disperse, tended to have similar lifespans. Identifiable families tended to survive or disperse as a unit. Tendency to disperse from peak populations was non-randomly distributed among litters, and littermates dispersed at the same age.