Habitat
Colonies are found in vegetation of moist, relatively well-drained lowlands, at lower elevations on mountain slopes, beach ridges where rye grass grows, and lower slopes of islands. Burrow systems often near rocky outrops and small streams (Cook and Klein 1999, Rausch and Rausch 1968). They were not found in dry lowlands or areas with much standing water (Rausch and Rausch 1968).
References
Cook, J. A. and D. R. Klein. 1999. Insular vole, Microtus abbreviatus. Pp. 623-624, in The Smithsonian book of North American mammals (D. E. Wilson and S. Ruff, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., in association with the American Society of Mammalogists.
Rausch, R. L. and V. R. Rausch. 1968. On the biology and systematic position of Microtus abbreviatus Miller, a vole endemic to the St. Mathew Islands, Bering Sea. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 33: 65-99.
