Communities of small mammals in six biotopes of northern Italy

Abstract

; present in all biotopes and was, numerically, the dominant species; the bank vole was the second most abundant species. Habitat preferences were similar to those reported for northern Europe bu: the bank vole was also present in habitats other than ancient woodlands. Community diversity md richness were positively correlated with habitat structural diversity. The species selected rricro-habitats that were significantly different from those available; ground cover at arboreil aid grass level and litter structure were generally the most important variables. There were jignficant differences in microhabitat use among dominant species; the intensity of segregitioi was higher in mature woodland and alder grove than in the other biotopes, which may reflect their different management.

Habitat and food preferences in a guild of insectivorous mammals in the Western Pyrenees

“…Therefore, it would be possible to suggest that the ground surface microhabitat does not clearly differentiate shrew species. This agrees with Gurnell's (1985) and Canova and Fasola's (1991) results from surface sampling. However, not only are these species active on the ground surface, Sorex coronatus is thought to use underground burrows a lot of the time in a similar way to Sorex araneus (Castien and Gosalbez 1995b), whereas Sorex minutus uses the surface to a greater extent (Croin Michielsen 1966, Ellenbroek andHamburger 1991).…”

Distribution and habitat preference of small mammals in a biotope of the north Italian plain

“…This result supports the general belief that community diversity and richness depend on the structural complexity of the habitat and agrees with data from another study (Canova & Fasola, 1991).…”

“…The yellow-necked mouse, a species widespread in northern and central Europe (Corbet & Harris, 1991) was not trapped, even in wooded habitats; this result, which agrees with the data from extensive trapping researches made in other biotopes (Canova & Fasola, 1991), confirms the scarcity, or a real lack of this species in the lowland of its southern European range.…”

Non-volant small mammals of the Western Ghats of Coorg District, southern India

“…Similarly, in light of lack of detailed taxonomic work on the endemic Suncus of the Western Ghats, the original description of Suncus niger is recognized and the synonymy of this taxon under Suncus montanus, a highland shrew of Sri Lanka, is ignored (Molur 2009). In all the other cases the taxonomy is after Trapping methods: Small mammals can be trapped using different methods such as snap traps (Prakash et al 1995), pitfall traps (Canova & Fasola 1991), multi traps (Laurance 1994), and Sherman traps (Chandrashekhar-Rao & Sunquist 1996; Shanker 1998; Prabhakar 1998; Kumar et al 2002;Venkatraman et al 2005). For the needs of this study, we decided not to use snap traps as it is a violent method and not useful for mark-recapture techniques; the wire mesh multi traps are too cumbersome and difficult to transport; and pitfall traps are labour intensive and time consuming.…”