<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ascensão, Fernando</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Clevenger, Anthony P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grilo, Clara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Filipe, Joel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Santos-Reis, Margarida</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Highway verges as habitat providers for small mammals in agrosilvopastoral environments</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biodiversity and Conservation</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Apodemus sylvaticus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Capture–mark–recapture</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crocidura russula</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Iberia Peninsula</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Montado woodlands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mus spretus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Road ecology</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s10531-012-0390-3http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10531-012-0390-3</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3681 - 3697</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Mediterranean Basin has an important conservation value given its high biodiversity and high number of endemic species, which have co-existed with human traditional practices for centuries. However, northern areas as the Iberian Peninsula have experienced intensiﬁcation in livestock production in recent past, with consequent reduction in habitat quality. In this study we assessed the importance of fenced highway verges as habitat for small mammals in Mediterranean agrosilvopastoral landscapes. More speciﬁcally, we compared small mammal abundance between highway verges and the adjacent two main land uses (‘‘montado’’ and open areas); compared the vegetative structure among these land were captured: 157 wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus), 95 western Mediterranean mice (Mus spretus) and 99 greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula). Capture–mark– recapture analyses were performed to estimate population size. Our data suggests that fenced highway verges promote better vegetative structure conditions which in turn favor a higher animal abundance therein. We suggest the adoption of management practices to increase the height and cover of herbaceous and shrub layers in road verges, together with creating grazing controlled areas in highway vicinity, particularly in ‘‘montado’’ patches, linked by vegetated linear features. This would increase habitat and refuge for a large numbers of species, including small mammals, and thus beneﬁting the trophic chain and the whole agrosilvopastoral system. uses; and addressed how vegetation structure inﬂuences species occupancy. Thirty-six sites were sampled in agrosilvopastoral system areas in southern Portugal (sampling effort 8,840 trap-nights). A total of 351 individuals from target species</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fons, R</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grabulosa, I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marchand, B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miquel, J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feliu, C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mas-Coma, S</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mammals and fire in mediterranean ecosystems Ecological responses from the shrew Crocidura russula (Insectivora Soricidae) and the rodent Eliomys quercinus (Gliridae) in burned cork oak forest</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">VIE ET MILIEU-LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cork Oak Forest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crocidura russula</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ELIOMYS QUERCINUS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mammals</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OBSERVATOIRE OCEANOLOGIQUE BANYULS</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LABORATOIRE ARAGO, BP 44, 66651 BANYULS-SUR-MER CEDEX, FRANCE</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">46</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">313-318</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mammals and fire in mediterranean ecosystems. Ecological responses from the shrew Crocidura russula (Insectivora - Soricidae) and the rodent Eliomys quercinus (Gliridae) in burned crock oak forest. In the present work we report the ecological responses of two small mammals to fire. During a six-year post-fire period, both species were studied by the capture-mark-recapture on a 9 ha quadrate established in a recently burned cork oak forest. The white-toothed-shrew, Crocidura russula, was the least resistant species to fire, disappearing completely during the first two years. Reappearing on the third year, the population maintained a low effective with the same fluctuation similar to that observed within the control. Although faster than on other studied mediterranean ecosystems, its allochthonous ristablishment on the burned cork oak forest, seems to be dependent on the litter reconstitution. Due to its rupicolous habits, its biotope specialization, highly favored by the presence of rocks on the capture quadrate, and some physiological apects (hibernation), the dormouse Eliomys quercinus, showed a better pre-adaptive response to the post-fire stress. The survival of a nucleus of autochtonous individuals insured, from the first year, a slow, but progressive recovery of the population.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fons, R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grabulosa, I.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marchand, B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miquel, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feliu, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mas-Coma, S.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mammals and fire in mediterranean ecosystems Ecological responses from the shrew Crocidura russula (Insectivora Soricidae) and the rodent Eliomys quercinus (Gliridae) in burned cork oak forest</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">VIE ET MILIEU-LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cork Oak Forest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crocidura russula</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ELIOMYS QUERCINUS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fire</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mammals</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">46</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">313 - 318</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mammals and fire in mediterranean ecosystems. Ecological responses from the shrew Crocidura russula (Insectivora - Soricidae) and the rodent Eliomys quercinus (Gliridae) in burned crock oak forest. In the present work we report the ecological responses of two small mammals to fire. During a six-year post-fire period, both species were studied by the capture-mark-recapture on a 9 ha quadrate established in a recently burned cork oak forest. The white-toothed-shrew, Crocidura russula, was the least resistant species to fire, disappearing completely during the first two years. Reappearing on the third year, the population maintained a low effective with the same fluctuation similar to that observed within the control. Although faster than on other studied mediterranean ecosystems, its allochthonous ristablishment on the burned cork oak forest, seems to be dependent on the litter reconstitution. Due to its rupicolous habits, its biotope specialization, highly favored by the presence of rocks on the capture quadrate, and some physiological apects (hibernation), the dormouse Eliomys quercinus, showed a better pre-adaptive response to the post-fire stress. The survival of a nucleus of autochtonous individuals insured, from the first year, a slow, but progressive recovery of the population.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3-4</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;pub-location: LABORATOIRE ARAGO, BP 44, 66651 BANYULS-SUR-MER CEDEX, FRANCE&lt;br/&gt;publisher: OBSERVATOIRE OCEANOLOGIQUE BANYULS</style></notes></record></records></xml>