Title:

Community of small mammals in the urban park revealed in the diet of Strix aluco – what changes were noted in recent decades?

Subtitle:

Small mammals in the urban park revealed in the diet of Strix aluco ; Zgrupowanie małych ssaków w parku miejskim określone na podstawie diety puszczyka Strix aluco – jakie zmiany zanotowano w ostatnich dekadach?

Creator:

Lesiński, Grzegorz ; Hayatli, Fatima ; Organiściak-Kwiatkowska, Paulina

Publisher:

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2024

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

mammalia ; rodents ; bats ; urban wooded area ; synurbization ; owl pellets ; Central Europe

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.

Relation:

FRAGMENTA FAUNISTICA 67 (1): 47–52, 2024

Volume:

67

Issue:

1

Start page:

47

End page:

52

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Resource Identifier:

10.3161/00159301FF2024.67.1.047

Source:

MiIZ PAN, call no. P.256 ; MiIZ PAN, call no. P.4664

Language:

eng ; eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open