Small mammal diversity changes in a Baltic country, 1975–2021: A review

L Balčiauskas, L Balčiauskienė - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Mediated through functional and numerical responses, the community
structure and diversity of small mammal communities over the long term may show the …

[HTML][HTML] Raptors at risk: Attributes of mortality within an anthropogenic landscape in the Mid-Hills region of Nepal

B Adhikari, S Bhandari, K Baral, S Lamichhane… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centers offer important insights regarding the threats and
attributes associated with raptor casualties. We utilized a data set on raptors admitted to a …

[HTML][HTML] Barn Owls as a Nature-Based Solution for Pest Control: A Multinational Initiative Around the Mediterranean and Other Regions

V Bontzorlos, S Cain, Y Leshem, O Spiegel, Y Motro… - Conservation, 2024 - mdpi.com
Pest rodents cause extensive damage to crops worldwide. Up to 40% of global crop
production is lost annually to pests and diseases, with rodents accounting for 15–30% of this …

Crop-land simplification impacts differently on small mammal communities: evidence from diversity/dominance plots using Barn Owl (Tyto alba) pellets

I Pelosi, G Dodaro, C Battisti, M Scalici - Community Ecology, 2024 - Springer
The land transformation of traditional agro-mosaics into progressively more anthropized
crops can trigger changes in small mammal communities. Here, we reported data about a …

Geographic variation in body size and plumage colour according to diet composition in a nocturnal raptor

A Romano, R Séchaud, A Roulin - Journal of Avian Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predator–prey interactions are amongst the strongest selective forces that promote the
evolution of local phenotypes in both predators and prey. However, intraspecific spatial …

[PDF][PDF] Difference in small mammal assemblages in the diet of the Common Barn-owl Tyto alba between two landscapes

A Horváth, A Morvai, GF Horváth - ACTA ZOOLOGICA ACADEMIAE …, 2022 - real.mtak.hu
As an opportunistic predator, the Common Barn-owl (Tyto alba) proved to be an appropriate
model organism to survey the composition of small mammal assemblages. This study …

Collection methods of wild barn owl pellets at low environmental contamination and proposals of microbiological and ecological investigations

C Caprari, A Bucci, F Divino, S Giovacchini… - Annals of …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The barn owl Tyto alba is a medium-sized nocturnal raptor, predator of
small mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects, distributed all over the world. Environmentally …

[HTML][HTML] Striped Field Mouse Invading Human-Modified Environments of Lithuania during Last Five Decades

L Balčiauskas, L Balčiauskienė - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
The striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) is expanding in several European countries,
but the details of this process are not always documented due to a lack of long-term studies …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary Shift in a Barn Owl (Tyto alba) Population Following Partial Abandonment of Cultivated Fields (Central Apennine Hills, Italy)

G Achille, D Gafta, C Szabó, F Canzian, N Polini - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Here, we aimed to detect differences in the composition, abundance
distribution, and feeding group proportion of micromammal prey identified in barn owl pellets …

[HTML][HTML] The Long-Term Dynamics of Shrew Communities: Is There a Downward Trend?

L Balčiauskas, L Balčiauskienė - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Compared to other small mammals, shrews are understudied due to their limited impact on
agriculture, lower biomedical importance, and difficulty to study. Based on trapping data from …