Dietary Shift in a Barn Owl (<i>Tyto alba</i>) Population Following Partial Abandonment of Cultivated Fields (Central Apennine Hills, Italy)

Dietary Shift in a Barn Owl (<i>Tyto alba</i>) Population Following Partial Abandonment of Cultivated Fields (Central Apennine Hills, Italy)

While most studies focused on the impact of intensive agriculture on the barn owl’s diet, little is known about the effect of cropland abandonment. We compared the taxon composition/evenness and feeding guild structure of small mammal prey identified in pellets collected before (2004) and after (201...

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Main Authors: Gabriele Achille, Dan Gafta, Csaba Szabó, Fadia Canzian, Nazzareno Polini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-09-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
abandoned fields
barn owl
diet similarity
pellets
prey feeding guilds
prey taxon evenness
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/17/2562

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