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The Natural History of Shrews
Characteristics of shrews the life history of shrews social organization communication and orientation food and foraging behaviour energetics of shrews community structure and habitat preferences…
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Food Availability and the Diet of the Common Shrew, Sorex araneus, in Britain
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The decrease in population density and body weight of shrews in winter was not accompanied by a decrease in biomass or numbers of invertebrate prey, and an increase in abundance of adult coleopterans was accompanied by an increased in predation by shrews.
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Diets and coexistence in Neomys and Sorex shrews in Białowieża forest, eastern Poland
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The results support the prediction that microhabitat selection among these species indicates differentiation in foraging mode, and suggest that the most important promoter of resource partitioning was body size, indicating different foraging modes.
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Food niche overlap and ecological separation in a multi‐species community of shrews in the Siberian taiga
An investigation of the feeding habits and prey availability in a community of seven species of shrew (Insectivora: Soricidae) inhabiting the taiga of Central Siberia was carried out with the aim of…
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Food resources and foraging habits of the common shrew, Sorex araneus: does winter food shortage explain Dehnel's phenomenon?
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Feeding habits of common shrews, Sorex araneus, and abundance and biomass of their prey in winters and summers in northeastern Poland are compared using scat analysis combined with pitfall and ground core sampling for invertebrates to test the hypothesis that winter at higher latitudes is a period of food shortage for small homeotherms.
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Geographical distribution and habitat occurrence of the Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens) in the Weald of South‐East England
A survey of 96 sites in a range of riparian habitats in the catchments of five rivers during June-August 1998 used the bait tube method to investigate the geographical distribution and habitat…
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Food niche overlap and ecological separation amongst six species of coexisting forest shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae) in the Russian Far East
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Investigation of the feeding habits and foraging modes of six species of shrew coexisting in the forests of the Russian Far East confirms that body size has an important role in effecting ecological separation in multi-species communities where a high degree of morphological and ecological similarity occurs between members.
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The effects of small mammal predators on grassland invertebrates, investigated by field exclosure experiment
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There was no evidence of differences in guild structure or species composition in either large or small invertebrate prey populations as a result of mammal predation, but numbers of large invertebrates were consistently and significantly smaller in the presence of mammals.
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Winter Reduction in Body Mass in a Very Small, Nonhibernating Mammal: Consequences for Heat Loss and Metabolic Rates
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Investigation of common shrews in northeastern Poland indicates that, despite their small body size, shrews effectively decrease their costs of thermoregulation, which should translate to food requirements that are substantially lower than would be the case if shrews did not undergo seasonal decrease in body mass.
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The trophic impact of small mammals in successional grasslands
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The habitat use and diets of small mammals inhabiting grassland plots of different successional ages were investigated by live-trapping and faecal analysis over a period of 16 months and the combined predatory impact of the grassland small mammal community on insect populations alone was estimated to average 0.01% per day.
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