Subtitle:

Energy balance and food requirements of...

Contributor:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Ekologii

Publisher:

Polish Scientific Publishers

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

Pages 195-211 : illustrations ; 24 cm ; Bibliographical references (pages 210-211) ; Abstract in Polish

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

In the diet of vipers rodents predominate. The bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus (Schreb.) is the most common prey animal. Also frog are rathter frequently consumed. The calculated consumption is 349.8 kcal per adult individual per year, or 25 rodents, 6 frogs and few animals from other systematic groups. As the density of vipers in the study area was one individual per hectar, the impact of this predator on rodent population seems to be insignificant.

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Relation:

Ekologia Polska

Volume:

22

Issue:

1

Start page:

195

End page:

211

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:73383

Source:

MiIZ PAN, call no. P.2840 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

pol

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 3.0 PL license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 3.0 PL] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 3.0 PL 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

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget.

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Open