Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method
The present paper summarizes accumulated information on pellet method exploitation in the theriological surveys and also shows a possibility of employment this method in monitoring of small mammals populations. It is demonstrated that data obtained by the pellet method is more informative with respe...
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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. National Museum of Natural History
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| description | The present paper summarizes accumulated information on pellet method exploitation in the theriological surveys and also shows a possibility of employment this method in monitoring of small mammals populations. It is demonstrated that data obtained by the pellet method is more informative with respect to rarity objects, but the composition of majority of small mammals species in pellets is considerably differ from nature communities one owing to owls diet selectivity. The basic factors of such selectivity on interspecific and intraspecific level are reported. The last one allows to conduct biomonitoring of populations of separate micromammals species. This paper emphasizes on necessity to create common database on owls diet, based on pellets contain analysis for conducting monitoring of small mammals on the territory of Ukraine. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d890f3dfbac434ca299dada995f57512022-12-21T22:33:50ZengNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. National Museum of Natural HistoryПраці Теріологічної школи2312-27492074-22742010-12-0110283910.15407/ptt2010.10.028Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet methodSergey Zaika0National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)The present paper summarizes accumulated information on pellet method exploitation in the theriological surveys and also shows a possibility of employment this method in monitoring of small mammals populations. It is demonstrated that data obtained by the pellet method is more informative with respect to rarity objects, but the composition of majority of small mammals species in pellets is considerably differ from nature communities one owing to owls diet selectivity. The basic factors of such selectivity on interspecific and intraspecific level are reported. The last one allows to conduct biomonitoring of populations of separate micromammals species. This paper emphasizes on necessity to create common database on owls diet, based on pellets contain analysis for conducting monitoring of small mammals on the territory of Ukraine.http://terioshkola.org.ua/library/pts10-species/pts10-13-zaika-pellets-monitoring.pdfmonitoringbirds-of-preypelletsfaunasmall mammalsowls |
| spellingShingle | Sergey Zaika Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method Праці Теріологічної школи monitoring birds-of-prey pellets fauna small mammals owls |
| title | Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method |
| title_full | Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method |
| title_fullStr | Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method |
| title_short | Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method |
| title_sort | monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method |
| topic | monitoring birds-of-prey pellets fauna small mammals owls |
| url | http://terioshkola.org.ua/library/pts10-species/pts10-13-zaika-pellets-monitoring.pdf |
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