Distribution of Small Mammals (Eulipotyphla, Rodentia) in the Gradient Direction Urban–Suburban–Rural of Central Slovakia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Distribution of Small Mammals (Eulipotyphla, Rodentia) in the Gradient Direction Urban–Suburban–Rural of Central Slovakia

Published:2021-06-01 Issue:2 Volume:40 Page:145-153
ISSN:1337-947X
Container-title:Ekológia (Bratislava)
language:en
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Author:

Langraf Vladimír¹,Krumpálová Zuzana²,Petrovičová Kornélia³,Poláčiková Zuzana¹,Ambros Michal⁴,Schlarmannová Janka²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra , Tr. A. Hlinku 1, Nitra, Slovak Republic

2. Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences , Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra , Tr. A. Hlinku 1, Nitra, Slovak Republic

3. Department of Environment and Zoology , Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra , Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic

4. State Nature Protection of the Slovak Republic, Administration of the Protected Landscape Area of Ponitrie , Samova 3, 949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Abstract

Abstract Changes in the structure of small mammals’ communities (Eulipotyphla, Rodentia) along urban–rural gradient indicate the environmental state of stability or instability. Since small mammals are important with regard to the transmission of diseases to man and domestic animals, therefore knowledge of their association with the landscape structure is needed in land use planning. In course of the period from 2015 to 2017, there were recorded 109 individuals belonging to 15 species at 9 study sites (3 rural, 3 suburban, and 3 urban). We recorded a decrease in the average number of species in the direction of the suburban–urban–rural gradient. The number of individuals decreased in the rural–urban–suburban gradient. Eudominant species Clethrionomys glareolus (D = 20.2%), Microtus arvalis (13.8%), and Sorex araneus (19.3%) preferred the close links between the terms of the rural landscape, while Apodemus agrarius (D = 11.9%) and Sorex minutus (D = 11.0%) preferred the close links between the terms of the urban landscape.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Ecology

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/eko-2021-0017

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