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dc.contributor.authorFerrari, Giulia
dc.contributor.authorScaravelli, Dino
dc.contributor.authorMustoni, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorArmanini, Marco
dc.contributor.authorZibordi, Filippo
dc.contributor.authorDevineau, Olivier
dc.contributor.authorCagnacci, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorGrasso, Donato
dc.contributor.authorOssi, Federico
dc.coverage.spatialItaly, Alpsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-29T12:32:54Z
dc.date.available2023-09-29T12:32:54Z
dc.date.created2023-04-23T07:09:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.issn2076-2615
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3093148
dc.description.abstractHuman-induced environmental alterations in the Alps may importantly affect small mammal species, but evidence in this sense is limited. We live-trapped small rodents in the Central Eastern Italian Alps in three close-by habitat types (rocky scree, alpine grassland, and heath) at 2100 m a.s.l. during summer-fall, in 1997 and 2016. We compared small rodent assemblages through a Redundancy Detrended Analysis (RDA). In both surveys, we detected two specialist species, i.e., the common vole (Microtus arvalis) and the snow vole (Chionomys nivalis), and, unexpectedly, the forest generalist bank vole (Myodes glareolus). In 1997, grassland was mainly occupied by the common vole, while the bank vole and the snow vole were sympatric in the other habitats. In 2016, the snow vole was detected only in the scree, while other species did not show distribution changes. We discuss a series of hypotheses that might have driven the differences observed across decades, among which is a species-specific response to abiotic and biotic environmental alterations, with the alpine habitat specialist moving out of sub-optimal habitats. We encourage further research on this topic, e.g., via long-term longitudinal studies.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectassemblage compositionen_US
dc.subjectbank voleen_US
dc.subjectCentral-Eastern Italian Alpsen_US
dc.subjectrange limitsen_US
dc.subjectsmall rodentsen_US
dc.subjectsnow voleen_US
dc.titleA Comparison of Small Rodent Assemblages after a 20 Year Interval in the Alpsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488en_US
dc.source.volume13en_US
dc.source.journalAnimalsen_US
dc.source.issue8en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ani13081407
dc.identifier.cristin2142640
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
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