@misc{Lesiński_Grzegorz_Community_2024,
 author={Lesiński, Grzegorz and Hayatli, Fatima and Organiściak-Kwiatkowska, Paulina},
 volume={67},
 number={1},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license},
 address={Warszawa},
 journal={FRAGMENTA FAUNISTICA 67 (1): 47–52, 2024},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 language={eng},
 language={eng},
 abstract={The study was conducted between 2016 and 2021 in the urban park of Warsaw agglomeration (Poland). Data on small mammals were obtained from analyses of Strix aluco pellets. Long-term changes in species composition and percentage of each species of prey in owls’ diet were determined by comparing our data with data published so far for the years 1975–1977 and 2003–2006. In total, owls captured 16 species: 1 – Erinaceomorpha, 2 – Soricomorpha, 8 – Rodentia and 5 – Chiroptera (0, 1, 6 and 4 in the years 2016–2021, respectively). Mammal community of this area was not stable – populations of many species showed remarkable changes in abundance. Decreasing trends were recorded in Apodemus agrarius, Microtus subterraneus, Eptesicus serotinus and Mus musculus, while increasing trends – in Apodemus flavicollis and Nyctalus noctula. In particular, A. flavicollis showed rapid population increase – in the recent six years it became a second abundant rodent in this park. These results indicate that urban mammal communities can undergo important changes throughout only one or two decades.},
 type={Text},
 title={Community of small mammals in the urban park revealed in the diet of Strix aluco – what changes were noted in recent decades?},
 URL={http://rcin.org.pl./Content/243033/WA058_279998_P256_FF.pdf},
 keywords={mammalia, rodents, bats, urban wooded area, synurbization, owl pellets, Central Europe},
}