Landscape Characteristics Affecting Small Mammal Occurrence in Heterogeneous Olive Grove Agro-Ecosystems by Isabel Barão, João Queirós, Hélia Vale-Gonçalves, Joana Paupério, Ricardo Pita

“…Based on SM genetic non-invasive sampling in 51 olive groves and surrounding habitats, we identified seven rodent species and one insectivore. Occupancy modelling indicated that SM were generally less detected within olive groves than in surrounding habitats. …”
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Hyperostotic tympanic bone spicules in domestic and wild animal species by A. Heitmann, B. Parzefall, M. Zollner, A. Bruhschwein, W. Hermanns, A. Blutke

“…In contrast, HTBS were not present in domestic cats (more than to 200 cases), small carnivorous species such as mustelids, nor in any primate, ungulate, ruminant, pig, insectivore, or rodent species. The detectability of HTBS by CT of the tympanic bullae of large felids was demonstrated in an African lion. …”
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Changes in the functional diversity of birds due to habitat loss in the Brazil Atlantic Forest by Eduardo Mariano-Neto, Eduardo Mariano-Neto, Rafael A. S. Santos, Rafael A. S. Santos

“…In the present work, we evaluated how habitat loss at a landscape scale influences the functional diversity of different bird communities (total community, frugivorous, and insectivorous birds) in landscapes of 5–60% of forest cover in the Bahia Atlantic Forest. …”
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Diversity and feeding guilds of fish populations in Pengkalan Gawi-Pulau Dula section of Tasik Kenyir Terengganu, Malaysia by Kamaruddin, Izharuddin Shah

“…The Aquatic insect food item was abundant in the stomach of H. nemurus thus it was categorized as insectivore fish species. Four other species comprising B. schwanenfeldii, Notopterus sp., H macrolepidota and P. faciatus consumed on balance dietary component mostly Aquatic insect, Fish food item, Plant materials and Phytoplankton. …”
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Effects of urban forest fragmentation on native mammals in Selangor, Malaysia by Tee, Sze Ling

“…A total number of 19 mammal species comprising 11 omnivores, four herbivores, three carnivores and one insectivore from 120 sampling points were recorded. …”
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Enriching captivity conditions with natural elements does not prevent the loss of wild‐like gut microbiota but shapes its compositional variation in two small mammals by Adam Koziol, Iñaki Odriozola, Lasse Nyholm, Aoife Leonard, Carlos San José, Joana Pauperio, Clara Ferreira, Anders J. Hansen, Ostaizka Aizpurua, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Antton Alberdi

“…In this study, we assessed how the gut microbiota of two wild‐caught small mammals, namely Crocidura russula (Eulipotyphla, insectivore) and Apodemus sylvaticus (Rodentia, omnivore), changed when bringing them into captivity. …”
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Pervasive exposure of wild small mammals to legacy and currently used pesticide mixtures in arable landscapes by Clémentine Fritsch, Brice Appenzeller, Louisiane Burkart, Michael Coeurdassier, Renaud Scheifler, Francis Raoul, Vincent Driget, Thibaut Powolny, Candice Gagnaison, Dominique Rieffel, Eve Afonso, Anne-Claude Goydadin, Emilie M. Hardy, Paul Palazzi, Charline Schaeffer, Sabrina Gaba, Vincent Bretagnolle, Colette Bertrand, Céline Pelosi

“…Apodemus mice (omnivore) and Crocidura shrews (insectivore) were sampled over two French agricultural landscapes (n = 93). …”
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Concentrations and biomagnification of multiple metals/metalloids are higher in rice than in sugarcane agroecosystems of southern China by Wambura M. Mtemi, Shilong Liu, Kangmei Liu, Lini Wei, Xueli Wang, Aiwu Jiang, Eben Goodale

“…When quantitatively rating the patterns of biomagnification using post-hoc multiple comparisons among species’ bioaccumulation factors (BAFs), rice paddies had stronger patterns of biomagnification (3 strong relationships [e.g., all insectivores had higher or as high BAFs compared to all other species], 7 medium relationships [e.g., one of the insectivores had the highest BAFs, but another had an intermediary value, similar to an herbivore], 6 weak [e.g., one insectivore had the highest BAFs, but the other was as low as a primary producer], and 3 no relationships [e.g., no significant differences among species in BAFs]) than sugarcane ecosystems (1 strong, 2 medium, 8 weak, and 9 no relationships; Repeated measures t-test, P-value = 0.0023) across 6 metals (Cr, Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn). …”
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Infection of the Asian gray shrew Crocidura attenuata (Insectivora: Soricidae) with Sarcocystis attenuati n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) in China by Junjie Hu, Jun Sun, Yanmei Guo, Hongxia Zeng, Yunzhi Zhang, Jianping Tao

“…Abstract Background Data on the genus Sarcocystis in insectivores are limited. The Asian gray shrew Crocidura attenuata is one of the most common species of the insectivore family Soricidae in South Asia and Southeast Asia. …”
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Biologia populacional de Imparfinis minutus (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae) na microbacia do Ribeirão Grande, serra da Mantiqueira oriental, Estado de São Paulo = Populational biolog... by Mariana Bissoli de Moraes, Francisco Manoel de Souza Braga

“…Imparfinis minutus is an aquatic insectivore opportunist species, consuming Diptera and Trichoptera larvae as secondary items. …”
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Assessment of diurnal bird species distribution based on microclimate factors in fragmented forest in Selangor, Malaysia by Mudani, Amin Bakri

“…The species of insectivores and frugivores birds are higher in the study area. …”
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Mercury accumulation in bats near hydroelectric reservoirs in Peninsular Malaysia by Syaripuddin, Khairunnisa, Sing, Kong-Wah, Halim, Muhammad-Rasul A, Nursyereen, Muhammad-Nasir, Wilson, John-James, Halim, Muhammad-Rasul Abdullah, Kumar, Anjali

“…We found significantly higher concentrations of total mercury in the fur of insectivorous bats. Mercury concentrations also differed significantly between insectivorous bats sampled at the two sites, with bats from Kenyir Lake, the younger reservoir, showing higher mercury concentrations, and between the insectivorous genera, with Hipposideros bats showing higher mercury concentrations. …”
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An Assessment on Bat Diversity in Curitiba, Paraná State, Subtropical Brazil by Gledson Vigiano Bianconi, Michel Miretzki

“…The results indicate 29 species (five of them threatened with extinction) from four families: Phyllostomidae, Noctilionidae, Molossidae and Vespertilionidae. Insectivorous bats (Molossidae and Vespertilionidae) represent 62.1% of the species recorded; and the primarily frugivorous (Phyllostomidae) 24.1%, followed by nectarivorous/polinivorous species (6.9%), insectivorous/frugivorous (ca. 3.4%) and piscivorous/insectivorous (ca. 3.4%). …”
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Diet and trophic guilds of fish assemblages in two streams with different anthropic impacts in the northwest of Paraná, Brazil by Karine Orlandi Bonato, Rosilene Luciana Delariva, Jislaine Cristina da Silva

“…In the Morangueiro stream, three trophic guilds were found: detritivorous, detritivorous/aquatic insectivorous, and aquatic insectivorous. In Queçaba stream, six trophic guilds were present: detritivorous, benthophagous, aquatic insectivorous, terrestrial insectivorous, herbivorous and carnivorous. …”
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Advances in Diversity and Conservation of Terrestrial Small Mammals by Linas Balčiauskas, Ana Maria Benedek

“…Rodents and insectivores are key components in terrestrial ecosystems [...]…”
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Emergence phenology of the giant salmonfly and responses by birds in Idaho river networks by McKenna M. Adams, Colden V. Baxter, David J. Delehanty

“…Such spatiotemporal variation may have consequences for terrestrial insectivores that rely on aquatic-derived prey resources. …”
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Does Age, Residency, or Feeding Guild Coupled with a Drought Index Predict Avian Health during Fall Migration? by Jenna E. Stanek, Brent E. Thompson, Sarah E. Milligan, Keegan A. Tranquillo, Stephen M. Fettig, Charles D. Hathcock

“…We found that the probability of positive fat scores decreased as drought severity increased for younger, insectivorous, migratory birds. Insectivores had a higher probability of receiving a fat score greater than zero relative to local drought conditions, which is important, since many North American insectivores are in steep decline. …”
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Studies of Reservoir Hosts for Marburg Virus by Robert Swanepoel, Sheilagh B. Smit, Pierre E. Rollin, Pierre Formenty, Patricia A. Leman, Alan Kemp, Felicity J. Burt, Antoinette A. Grobbelaar, Janice Croft, Daniel G. Bausch, Hervé Zeller, Herwig Leirs, L.E.O. Braack, Modeste L. Libande, Sherif Zaki, Stuart T. Nichol, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Janusz T. Paweska

“…We found MARV nucleic acid in 12 bats, comprising 3.0%–3.6% of 2 species of insectivorous bat and 1 species of fruit bat. We found antibody to the virus in the serum of 9.7% of 1 of the insectivorous species and in 20.5% of the fruit bat species, but attempts to isolate virus were unsuccessful.…”
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Road induced edge effects on a forest bird community in tropical Asia by Daphawan Khamcha, Richard T. Corlett, Larkin A. Powell, Tommaso Savini, Antony J. Lynam, George A. Gale

“…Results We found a strongly negative response to the forest edge for bark-gleaning, sallying, terrestrial, and understory insectivores and a weakly negative response for arboreal frugivore-insectivores, foliage gleaning insectivores, and raptors. …”
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Habitat use and food partitioning of the fishes in a coastal stream of Atlantic Forest, Brazil by J. M. R. Aranha, D. F. Takeuti, T. M. Yoshimura

“…Diet similarity suggested seven trophic guilds: Microglanis sp. and Pimelodella pappenheimi: omnivorous/carnivorous guild; Corydoras barbatus: omnivorous/insectivorous guild; Characidium lanei: aquatic insectivorous guild, mainly aquatic insects; Mimagoniates microlepis: terrestrial insectivorous guild, mainly terrestrial insects; Deuterodon langei and Astyanax sp.: omnivorous/herbivorous guild; Rineloricaria kronei, Kronichthys subteres, Schizolecis guntheri, Hisonotus leucofrenatus and Pseudotothyris obtusa: herbivorous guild; and Phalloceros caudimaculatus: algivorous guild. …”
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