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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Small Mammal Communities"”.
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Small mammal communities on a reclaimed mountaintop mine/valley fill landscape in southern West Virginia
… form of strip mining whose effects on small mammals had not previously been examined. Small mammals were captured by Sherman trap and drift fence array (pitfall and funnel traps) on 3 treatments representing the mined landscape and intact forests representing the unmined condition. …
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THE EFFECTS OF LARGE HERBIVORES ON SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES, PLANTS AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA
… experiment to determine the effects of elk on small mammal communities, plants, and ecosystem processes.</p> <p>I found that five years of elk exclusion led to noticeable changes in small mammal communities; some small mammals increased in the exclosure while others declined on controls. These …
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THE EFFECTS OF LARGE HERBIVORES ON SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES, PLANTS AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA
… experiment to determine the effects of elk on small mammal communities, plants, and ecosystem processes.</p> <p>I found that five years of elk exclusion led to noticeable changes in small mammal communities; some small mammals increased in the exclosure while others declined on controls. These …
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Ecological Gradients in Diversity and Abundance: A Search for Patterns and Processes in Small Mammal Communities
… gradients in diversity and abundance of small mammals. The unimodal distribution of diversity in North American desert rodents was highly consistent with the mid-domain effect—a spatial constraint null model incorporating the overlap of variably sized ranges within a bounded region. …
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Effects of connectivity and regional dynamics on restoration trajectories for small mammal communities on Midwestern grasslands
… for high priority wildlife species. Because small mammals can be important indicators of ecosystem function, I sampled small mammal communities to evaluate restoration efforts under the SAFE program in Illinois. I livetrapped small mammals during 3 summers (2009-2011) on plots that were …
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Spatial variation in small mammal communities across the Karoo Shale Gas Development Area of South Africa
This study details results of small mammal surveys at 24 sites in four biomes (Nama- and Succulent Karoo, Albany Thicket, Grassland) as part of the Karoo BioGaps project to augment baseline biodiversity information needed to guide proposed fracking activities in the Shale Gas Development Area …
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Small mammal communities in restored prairies: comparing monitoring methods and assessing occupancy responses to local and landscape-scale variables
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Effects of edge and coarse woody debris on small mammal communities in riparian and upland habitats in northern West Virginia
The effects on biological communities of human-induced disturbances such as road construction for logging and military activities are a topic of much controversy in modern society. Furthermore, the response of small mammal communities to edge and coarse woody debris (CWD) volume in riparian and …
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EVALUATION OF A FOREST RESTORATION STRATEGY ON SMALL MAMMALS IN SOUTHERN PINE ECOSYSTEMS
… function. Understanding disturbance-sensitive small mammal communities from restoration strategies (retention) can help achieve long-term management goals for ecosystem conservation across larger scales. I utilized bucket camera traps (Hunt Trap) to detect small mammal communities and assess …
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Small Mammals in Prairie Wetlands: Habitat Use and the Effects of Wetland Modifications
Although well documented for other habitat types, small mammal habitat use patterns in prairie wetlands are poorly understood. The distribution of the mammal fauna of South Dakota is also not well known. Because of the lack of information in these areas, evaluation of the impacts of wetland …
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Examination of small mammal diversity in the riparian areas of Walden, Tennessee
Vanderbilt, Forrest B. Examination of Small Mammal Diversity in the Riparian Areas of Walden, Tennessee Thesis under the direction of Robert D. Keller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology It has been hypothesized that riparian zones are prime conservation habitats and can be used as indicators of …
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Smulkiųjų žinduolių bendrijos pokyčiai Zarasų rajone /
There are lots of investigations of small mammal communities not only in Lithuania, but in other countries as well. But that is to say, majority of these researches are made in vegetative season of the year and winter data on small mammal communities are lacking. The aim of this investigation was …
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A Descriptive analysis of the various sources of portfolio risk on the Namibian Stock Market
We conducted a study on the terrestrial small mammal communities (< 1kg) in the Volcanoes National Park (VNP), Rwanda, to determine species diversity and altitudinal/habitat associations. Data on environmental variables (habitat cover, temperature, wind speed and rainfall) were incorporated into …
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Spatial modelling of small mammal distributions in relation to parasite transmission in western China
… investigates the spatial distributions of small mammal species which actas intermediate host vectors for the parasitic tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, whichcauses a significant burden of human disease in western China. Small mammal distributionsare modelled in relation to landscape …
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Causes and consequences of the postfire increase in deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) abundance
… in burned forest. I documented a shift in small mammal communities away from more specialized species such as red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi) and shrews (Sorex spp.) and towards greater abundance of generalist deer mice after a wildfire in montane forest. I conducted a meta-analysis of …
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Causes and consequences of the postfire increase in deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) abundance
… in burned forest. I documented a shift in small mammal communities away from more specialized species such as red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi) and shrews (Sorex spp.) and towards greater abundance of generalist deer mice after a wildfire in montane forest. I conducted a meta-analysis of …
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Biogeography of Montane Mammals on the Colorado Plateau and Adjacent Regions
… the biogeographic factors that structure small mammal communities on mountains of the Colorado Plateau and adjacent regions. Forty six isolated ranges were characterized across a 5-state study area encompassing the Colorado Plateau, including the central high plateaus of Utah and the Basin …
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Population Ecology of Rhabdomys dilectus dilectus in the Western Soutpansberg Mountains
… factors, and the composition of the small mammal community. Results indicate that R.d. dilectus was the most abundant species across all study sites, with the highest population density observed in the Wetland due to its mesic conditions. Rainfall significantly influenced trapping …
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Understanding the role of fragmentation in informing small mammal diversity and abundance in Rûens Renosterveld
… of habitat fragmentation through the lens of small mammals within a highly fragmented landscape in the Overberg, South Africa. The study explores habitat features in fragments of Eastern Rûens Shale Renosterveld associated with small mammal diversity and abundance and explores the potential …