Diets of Sympatric Populations of American Martens (Martes Americana) and Fishers (Martes Pennanti) in California

Zielinski, William J.; Duncan, Neil

doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2004)085<0470:dospoa>2.0.co;2

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“…We hypothesize that female fishers may select den trees in areas with more structurally diverse forests because those habitats support more abundant prey needed to support the energetic costs of lactation. Fishers in the region encompassing our study area consume tree squirrels, small rodents, birds, and small lizards (Zielinski et al, 1999;Zielinski and Duncan, 2004). Data on availability of these types of prey are not known for our study area, but would be very useful for understanding where fishers choose to den on the forest landscape.…”

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Characterizing habitats associated with fisher den structures in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California using discrete return lidar

Zhao

Sweitzer

Guo

et al. 2012

Forest Ecology and Management

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Characterizing habitats associated with fisher den structures in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California using discrete return lidar

Zhao

Sweitzer

Guo

et al. 2012

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Zielinski 1986; Jędrzejewska and Jędrzejewski 1998) make it possible to assess biomass consumed from the dry weight of prey remains, we agree with Zielinski and Duncan (2004) on the difficulty of separating the undigested remains effectively. As a consequence, the contribution of each food item in terms of volume was assessed according to Kruuk and Parish's (1981) method, which provides for quantifications of food volumes as reliable as those obtained by the analysis of stomach contents (Balestrieri et al 2010a).…”

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Food habits of genetically identified pine marten (Martes martes) expanding in agricultural lowlands (NW Italy)

et al. 2011

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We assessed the diet of pine marten (Martes martes) expanding in the heavily human-altered agricultural plain of the River Po, northern Italy. Between February 2008 and November 2009, surveys were carried out twice a week during seasonal sampling sessions of three to four consecutive weeks. To distinguish the faecal samples from those of sympatric carnivores, a polymerase chain reactionrestriction fragment length polymorphism method was applied. The availability of small mammals was assessed by the analysis of 59 barn owl (Tyto alba) pellets. A total of 109 pine marten faeces were analysed. Its diet consisted of fruit, rodents, lagomorphs and birds. Seasonal variation occurred for fruit, which prevailed in summer, and rodents, which were more preyed upon in autumn. In winter, the diet of the pine marten was almost totally based on vertebrates, and lagomorphs were the main source of protein in summer. Use of small mammals differed significantly from their availability, voles, particularly bank vole Myodes glareolus, being preferred to mice (Apodemus sp.) and rats (Rattus sp.). Medium-size mammals formed about 18% of pine marten diet, a value generally reported for high-latitude habitats. In agricultural areas, the pine marten proved to be an opportunistic predator, able to face the reduced availability of small mammals by preying upon medium-size prey and fruit.

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“…In particular, these studies revealed beech martens to concentrate to a larger extent than pine martens on rapidly renewing resources, as is the case of insects and certain fruits. Differences in the use of micro-habitat and the circadian activity have been considered to lie behind the sympatry between the species of the Genus Martes (Zielinski and Duncan, 2004). These results bear important implications in the context of our research.…”

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“…The complementary activity patterns found in our study are significantly different between the two species (Exact Probability Fisher test pvalue < 0.0001) and what seems clear is that the beech marten is a far more nocturnal animal when compared to the pine marten. We believe this diachrony in the activity patterns of the two species facilitates their coexistence under conditions of syntopy (Kronfeld-Schor and Dayan, 2003;Zielinski and Duncan, 2004).…”

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Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia: The pine marten (Martes martes Linnaeus, 1758) and beech marten (Martes foina Erxleben, 1777) from Cova Fosca (Spain)

Rodríguez

Nores-Quesada

López‐Sáez

et al. 2016

Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tZooarchaeological and palaeontological records indicate that whereas the pine marten (Martes martes, L.) constitutes a genuine element of the European fauna, the beech marten (Martes foina E.) is a recent colonizer whose invasion was fostered by the spread of the Neolithic economies. In this paper: (1) we provide the first direct radiocarbon date for the appearance of the beech marten in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe, (2) assess the evolution of the abundances of the two species in the eastern Iberian site of Cova Fosca (13,360e4522 cal BC), and (3) explore the causes that may have played a role in the expansion of the beech marten and the retreat of the pine marten to the northern fringe of the Iberian Peninsula. Our study suggests that whereas the beech marten might have benefited from landscape transformations that the Neolithic agropastoral communities fostered, hunting pressure along with a combination of natural and anthropic landscape changes that took place in eastern Iberia after the onset of the Neolithic (ca. 5600 cal BC onwards) may have sealed the fate of the pine marten in the region.

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Diets of Sympatric Populations of American Martens (Martes Americana) and Fishers (Martes Pennanti) in California

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Characterizing habitats associated with fisher den structures in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California using discrete return lidar

Characterizing habitats associated with fisher den structures in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California using discrete return lidar

Food habits of genetically identified pine marten (Martes martes) expanding in agricultural lowlands (NW Italy)

Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia: The pine marten (Martes martes Linnaeus, 1758) and beech marten (Martes foina Erxleben, 1777) from Cova Fosca (Spain)

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