<strong>Abstract</strong> Over the last decades, dramatic changes in agricultural practices have led to important modifications of land-use, as well as landscape structure, and to a general biodiversity loss in agro-ecosystems. During 2008 we investigated the small mammal communities of Short Rotation Forestry (SRF) stands in Northern Italy. We live-trapped small mammals, during summer and autumn, in different types of SRF stands and surrounding habitats and compared capture rates. We evaluated the influence on small mammals abundance of the distance between the stands and other habitats offering woody or bushy cover. Our results showed that SRF plantations are widely exploited by small mammals, especially in autumn and that cap...
Background: With farmland afforestation becoming common policy in many European Union countries, we ...
Small mammals (Rodentia, Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha) play a crucial ecological role for their d...
[eng] The main objectives of this thesis were to analyse the relative roles of food availability and...
ABSTRACT- Over the last decades, dramatic changes in agricultural practices have led to important mo...
Intensification of agricultural landscapes represent a major threat for biodiversity conservation al...
We surveyed occurrence and activity of large and medium-sized mammals on three experimental short-ro...
The small mammal community composition was studied in relation to the length of rotation cycle in a ...
In order to investigate diversity patterns and similarities in the small mammal communities of an ag...
Spatial relationships and microhabitat selection were studied in syntopic populations of small mamma...
Acquiring knowledge on the spatial behaviour of rodents is crucial to understand their key ecologica...
Agricultural landscapes are affected by continuous stresses that leads to changes in the structure a...
Small mammals have been seldom used as indicators of biodiversity responses to environmental changes...
Forestry plantations, and particularly those of exotic Eucalyptus, are important man-made systems in...
Habitat loss and fragmentation are key drivers of global species loss. In fragmented landscapes spec...
Agricultural intensification has been widespread worldwide over the last decades and has lead to a l...
Background: With farmland afforestation becoming common policy in many European Union countries, we ...
Small mammals (Rodentia, Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha) play a crucial ecological role for their d...
[eng] The main objectives of this thesis were to analyse the relative roles of food availability and...
ABSTRACT- Over the last decades, dramatic changes in agricultural practices have led to important mo...
Intensification of agricultural landscapes represent a major threat for biodiversity conservation al...
We surveyed occurrence and activity of large and medium-sized mammals on three experimental short-ro...
The small mammal community composition was studied in relation to the length of rotation cycle in a ...
In order to investigate diversity patterns and similarities in the small mammal communities of an ag...
Spatial relationships and microhabitat selection were studied in syntopic populations of small mamma...
Acquiring knowledge on the spatial behaviour of rodents is crucial to understand their key ecologica...
Agricultural landscapes are affected by continuous stresses that leads to changes in the structure a...
Small mammals have been seldom used as indicators of biodiversity responses to environmental changes...
Forestry plantations, and particularly those of exotic Eucalyptus, are important man-made systems in...
Habitat loss and fragmentation are key drivers of global species loss. In fragmented landscapes spec...
Agricultural intensification has been widespread worldwide over the last decades and has lead to a l...
Background: With farmland afforestation becoming common policy in many European Union countries, we ...
Small mammals (Rodentia, Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha) play a crucial ecological role for their d...
[eng] The main objectives of this thesis were to analyse the relative roles of food availability and...