Small mammal
Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus shiquicus in a small mammal community on the eastern Tibetan Plateau: host species composition, molecular prevalence, and epidemiological implications
... dominant small mammal species ...that small mam- mal species and dogs together comprise a wildlife and peri-domestic ecosystem for transmission of ...
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Changes in small mammal assemblage structure across a rain forest/open forest ecotone
... The productivity theory of diversity suggests that diversity should increase with productivity (Connell & Orians 1964). However, many recent studies have found that diversity is highest at intermediate levels of ...
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Small mammal foraging and population responses to northern conifer mast
... Preferential consumption of seeds by rodents can dramatically alter overall plant- community structure (Abbott 1962; Davidson 1993). Field and laboratory studies have shown that deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) consume ...
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Giving Up Densities of Small Mammal Granivores and Their Foraging Behaviors
... 15 small seed trays and 15 large seed ...either small seeds consisting of thistles and millet seed or large seeds containing black oil sunflower ...the small mammal granivores found in the ...
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Small Mammal Habitat Use within Restored Riparian Habitats Adjacent to Channelized Streams in Mississippi
... We used a two factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) coupled with the Student-Neuman-Keuls (SNK) test to examine if differences in community (species richness, evenness, Shannon Diversity Index, abundance) and popu- lation ...
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Avian ecosystem functions are influenced by small mammal ecosystem engineering
... and small mammals often play different ecological ...and small mammals in habitats al- tered by small mammal activity could result in a coupling between different ecosystem processes at a ...
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COMMENSAL SMALL MAMMAL SPECIES AND BAIT PREFERENCES IN URBAN AREAS OF PENANG ISLAND
... The most dominant species at commercial areas was Norway rats while the dominant species caught at residential areas in Penang Island was the lesser bandicoot rat. Overall, in terms of individual numbers caught, Norway ...
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Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus shiquicus in a small mammal community on the eastern Tibetan Plateau : host species composition, molecular prevalence, and epidemiological implications
... Small mammal host species community composition Although all the six small mammal species reported in this study have been recorded previously on the Tibetan Plateau, information about ...
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Chew-track-cards: a multiple-species small mammal detection device
... sympatric small-mammal pests, DQGIRUFKHDSO\DQGFRPSUHKHQVLYHO\PDSSLQJWKHGLVWULEXWLRQRIWKHVHSHVWVRYHUODUJHUHPRWHDUHDV7KH&7& is an interference device that can record both tooth impressions and the ...
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Seasonal fluctuations of small mammal and flea communities in a Ugandan plague focus: evidence to implicate Arvicanthis niloticus and Crocidura spp as key hosts in Yersinia pestis transmission
... sylvatic small mammal species are essential for maintaining ...how small mammal and flea populations would respond during epi- zootic ...which small mammal species and their ...
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The small mammal fauna from the Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1 (Greece).
... large mammal and therefore included in the larger mammal study (Konidaris et ...the small mammal material; the femur of area B is of light coloration, possibly depicting an element of ...
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Landscape genetics of highly disturbed arable systems : insights gained from investigating a small mammal species
... of small mammal species, vegetative cover and food availability have been suggested to be important (Macdonald et ...in small mammal abundance, with wood mice and bank voles being included ...
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Organic farms as refuges for small mammal biodiversity in agro ecosystems
... structuring small mammal communities, but when fragmentation sets in and creates dispersal barriers the species composition of small mammal species may become under ...
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The genetic consequences of demography and disturbance in small mammal populations
... This suggests that fire extent can have an impact on the recovery mechanisms of female pale field-rats. While male dispersal may have remained relatively constant regardless of disturbance, female dispersal may vary in ...
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Influence of Human Disturbance to the Small Mammal Communities in the Forests
... of small mammals in the forests was widely researched, and most studies indicated that both species composition and abundance of small mammals changed with forest age (Kirkland, 1990; Ferreira & Van ...
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Effect of Rock Cover on Small Mammal Abundance in a Montana Grassland - Intermountain Journal of Sciences
... We hypothesized that in a specific type of Northern Great Plain grassland, deer mice are more abundant, with a greater number of individuals and prevalence of SNV antibodies in the population, in sites with similar ...
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New records for Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in small mammal species
... Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA was previously detected in several small mammal species such as A. agrarius, A. flavicollis, A. uralensis, A. sylvaticus, M. musculus, M. agrestis, M. arvalis, M. oeconomus, ...
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Effect of landscape features on the relationship between Ixodes ricinus ticks and their small mammal hosts
... of small mammal hosts are influenced by landscape fea- tures [27, 28], which can therefore have consequences on the tick populations and the transmission of tick- borne pathogens [12, 23, ...32]. ...
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Habitat Parameters and Small Mammal Associations of the Gaspe Shrew, Sorex gaspensis , in the Eastern Gaspé Peninsula, Québec
... diverse small mammal community with ten other species cap- tured (nine from this study; one specimen of Pygmy Shrew, Sorex hoyi, was also captured in 2002, Pro - novost et ...of small mam- mals, ...
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Small mammal community response to early meadow–forest succession
... influences small mammal species composition, diversity, abundance and ...the small mammal community change in the early-successional forest ecosystems, starting with the pre-forest habitat and ...
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