Compared with the rapid expansion across Europe, the golden jackal colonization of Italy is
still limited and slow. No study focused on the habitat selection or landscape connectivity for …

Rodent biogeographic studies are disproportionately scarce in Iran, however, they are an
ideal system to understand drivers of biodiversity distributions in the country. The aims of the …

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 …

Plastic pollution in terrestrial and freshwater environments and its accumulation along food
chains has been poorly studied in birds. The Barn owl (Tyto alba) is an opportunistic and …

Shrew communities play a crucial role in a diverse range of natural, urban, and agricultural
ecosystems. We used Barn owl diet analysis as the ideal proxy to assess small-mammal …

Rodent and shrew populations are key components of many animal communities around the
world. However, their population dynamics and the factors influencing their abundance are …

In order to investigate diversity patterns and similarities in the small mammal communities of
an agroforestry landscape in western central Italy (Maremma of Lazio), we analyzed, in a …

The diet of the Common Barn-owl in a forest-and shrub-dominated hunting area in the
Strandzha Mountains, southern Bulgaria, was identified from 516 prey specimens. Shrews …

One component of integrated rat management in rice fields is barn owl as biological control.
The study was conducted to evaluate the occupancy rate of barn owl nest boxes, the local …

In the field of research are small mammal species in mountain areas still rather unexplored,
especially the distribution over the different elevation gradients. This study did not only aim …