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Proceedings of the Theriological School

ISSN 2312–2749 (print) • ISSN 2074-2274 (online)

2010 • Vol. 10 • Contents of volume >>>


download pdfZaika, S. Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method. Proceedings of the Theriological School. 2010. Vol. 10: 28–39. [In Ukrainian]


 

title

Monitoring of small mammals populations by the pellet method

author(s)

Sergey Zaika

affiliation

National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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Proceedings of the Theriological School. 2010. Vol. 10: 28–39.

DOI

http://doi.org/10.15407/ptt2010.10.028

   

language

Ukrainian, with English summary, titles of tables, captures to figs

abstract

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.

keywords

monitoring, birds-of-prey, pellets, fauna, small mammals, owls.

   

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