Responses of litter‐dwelling arthropods and house mice to beech seeding in the Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand

摘要: This study investigates further the possibility that eruptions of house mice in forests southern beech (Nothofagus spp) New Zealand after mast seedings are triggered by increases populations some arthropods, especially Lepidoptera larvae and spiders common foods mice, rather than seed It reports on a 5‐year arthropods forest floor hard silver Orongorongo Valley, near Wellington, relation to (1) litter seedfall, (2) numbers diet Litter‐feeding both fermentation layers feed fallen male flowers beech, most species were more heavy flowering beeches A few (including Miturga sp , main spider eaten mice) also abundant seeding Analysis long‐term records seeding, adults moth Gymnobathra tholodella ...