The Montane Vole is a compact, gray-brown vole of high-elevation mountain meadows and sagebrush habitats across western North America. It is one of the dominant small herbivores in mountain meadow ecosystems and shows pronounced population cycles tied to food availability and predator pressure. Meadow areas may be honeycombed with its surface runway systems.
Habitat
Mountain meadows, sagebrush, and alpine grasslands
Diet
Grasses, sedges, roots, and bark
How common
Common
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