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Dorigo L, Boscutti F, Sigura M. Landscape and microhabitat features determine small mammal abundance in forest patches in agricultural landscapes. PeerJ 2021; 9:e12306. [PMID: 34820165 PMCID: PMC8603830 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Intensification of agricultural landscapes represent a major threat for biodiversity conservation also affecting several ecosystem services. The natural and semi-natural remnants, available in the agricultural matrix, represent important sites for small mammals and rodents, which are fundamental for sustaining various ecosystem functions and trophic chains. We studied the populations of two small mammals (Apodemus agrarius, A. sylvaticus) to evaluate the effects of landscape and habitat features on species abundance along a gradient of agricultural landscape intensification. The study was performed in Friuli Venezia Giulia (north-eastern Italy) during 19 months, in 19 wood remnants. Species abundance was determined using Capture-Mark-Recapture (CMR) techniques. In the same plots, main ecological parameters of the habitat (at microhabitat and patch scale) and landscape were considered. Abundance of A. agrarius increased in landscapes with high extent of permanent crops (i.e., orchards and poplar plantations) and low content of undecomposed litter in the wood understory. Instead, A. sylvaticus, a more generalist species, showed an opposite, albeit less strong, relationship with the same variables. Both species were not affected by any landscape structural feature (e.g., patch shape, isolation). Our findings showed that microhabitat features and landscape composition rather than wood and landscape structure affect populations’ abundance and species interaction. The opposite response of the two study species was probably because of their specific ecological requirements. In this light, conservation management of agricultural landscapes should consider the ecological needs of species at both landscape and habitat levels, by rebalancing composition patterns in the context of ecological intensification, and promoting a sustainable forest patch management.
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- Luca Dorigo
- Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, Italy
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- Di4A - Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Di4A - Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy
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Cartledge EL, Baker M, White I, Powell A, Gregory B, Varley M, Hurst JL, Stockley P. Applying remotely sensed habitat descriptors to assist reintroduction programs: A case study in the hazel dormouse. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/csp2.544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Emma L. Cartledge
- Mammalian Behaviour and Evolution Group Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool Leahurst Campus Neston UK
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- Mammalian Behaviour and Evolution Group Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool Leahurst Campus Neston UK
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- People's Trust for Endangered Species London UK
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- Mammalian Behaviour and Evolution Group Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool Leahurst Campus Neston UK
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- Mammalian Behaviour and Evolution Group Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool Leahurst Campus Neston UK
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Viñals-Domingo A, Bertolino S, López-Iborra G, Gil-Delgado JA. Seasonal survival in a non-hibernating Mediterranean garden dormouse population. Mamm Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s42991-020-00067-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Casagrande AF, Santos-Filho MD. Use of forest remnants and teak (Tectona grandis) plantations by small mammals in Mato Grosso, Brazil. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2019.1656520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Alexandre Faustino Casagrande
- Centro de Pesquisa em Limnologia, Biodiversidade e Etnobiologia do Pantanal, Laboratório de Mastozoologia, Universidade do Estado de Mato Groso - UNEMAT, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Centro de Pesquisa em Limnologia, Biodiversidade e Etnobiologia do Pantanal, Laboratório de Mastozoologia, Universidade do Estado de Mato Groso - UNEMAT, Cáceres, Brazil
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Friebe K, Steffens T, Schulz B, Valqui J, Reck H, Hartl G. The significance of major roads as barriers and their roadside habitats as potential corridors for hazel dormouse migration – a population genetic study. FOLIA ZOOLOGICA 2018. [DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v67.i2.a10.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Kathrin Friebe
- University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Olshausenstrasse 75, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein D-24118, Germany
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- University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Olshausenstrasse 75, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein D-24118, Germany
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- Stiftung Naturschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Eschenbrook 4, Molfsee D-24113, Germany
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- University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Olshausenstrasse 75, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein D-24118, Germany
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- University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Olshausenstrasse 75, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein D-24118, Germany
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- University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Olshausenstrasse 75, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein D-24118, Germany
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Landscape determinants of genetic differentiation, inbreeding and genetic drift in the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius). CONSERV GENET 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-017-0999-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Coexistence between Javan Slow Lorises (Nycticebus javanicus) and Humans in a Dynamic Agroforestry Landscape in West Java, Indonesia. INT J PRIMATOL 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10764-017-9960-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Whisker touch guides canopy exploration in a nocturnal, arboreal rodent, the Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius). J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2017; 203:133-142. [DOI: 10.1007/s00359-017-1146-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Revised: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Bani L, Orioli V, Pisa G, Fagiani S, Dondina O, Fabbri E, Randi E, Sozio G, Mortelliti A. Population genetic structure and sex-biased dispersal of the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) in a continuous and in a fragmented landscape in central Italy. CONSERV GENET 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-016-0898-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Sozio G, Iannarilli F, Melcore I, Boschetti M, Fipaldini D, Luciani M, Roviani D, Schiavano A, Mortelliti A. Forest management affects individual and population parameters of the hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius. Mamm Biol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2014.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Encarnação JA, Becker NI. Stealthy at the roadside: Connecting role of roadside hedges and copse for silvicolous, small mammal populations. J Nat Conserv 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2015.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Becker NI, Encarnação JA. Silvicolous on a small scale: possibilities and limitations of habitat suitability models for small, elusive mammals in conservation management and landscape planning. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120562. [PMID: 25781894 PMCID: PMC4363376 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Species distribution and endangerment can be assessed by habitat-suitability modelling. This study addresses methodical aspects of habitat suitability modelling and includes an application example in actual species conservation and landscape planning. Models using species presence-absence data are preferable to presence-only models. In contrast to species presence data, absences are rarely recorded. Therefore, many studies generate pseudo-absence data for modelling. However, in this study model quality was higher with null samples collected in the field. Next to species data the choice of landscape data is crucial for suitability modelling. Landscape data with high resolution and ecological relevance for the study species improve model reliability and quality for small elusive mammals like Muscardinus avellanarius. For large scale assessment of species distribution, models with low-detailed data are sufficient. For regional site-specific conservation issues like a conflict-free site for new wind turbines, high-detailed regional models are needed. Even though the overlap with optimally suitable habitat for M. avellanarius was low, the installation of wind plants can pose a threat due to habitat loss and fragmentation. To conclude, modellers should clearly state the purpose of their models and choose the according level of detail for species and environmental data.
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- Nina I. Becker
- Mammalian Ecology Group, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Mammalian Ecology Group, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Mortelliti A, Sozio G, Driscoll DA, Bani L, Boitani L, Lindenmayer DB. Population and individual-scale responses to patch size, isolation and quality in the hazel dormouse. Ecosphere 2014. [DOI: 10.1890/es14-00115.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ancillotto L, Sozio G, Mortelliti A, Russo D. Ultrasonic communication in Gliridae (Rodentia): the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) as a case study. BIOACOUSTICS 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2013.838146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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