<?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%">Cassaing, Jacques</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de la Riviere, Bettina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Donno, Fabrice</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martinez-Garcia, Esteban</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thomas, Camille</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Interactions between 2 Mediterranean rodent species: Habitat overlap and use of heterospecific cues</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ECOSCIENCE</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">habitat overlap</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">habitat preference</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">heterospecific</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">137 - 147</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Familiarity with its habitat is vital for any individual, enabling it to meet its requirements for food, shelter, and reproduction. The questions of how optimal habitat is found and is shared with a competitor species remain problematic for rodents. Study of the habitat preferences and selection of 2 murinae from the south of France, the short-tailed mouse Mus spretus and the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus, found a large overlap in habitat and only small differences in preferences. Although both species live in almost every garrigue habitat and are more abundant in transitory human-disturbed areas, A. sylvaticus was higher in abundance in holm oak coppices, while M. spretus was more abundant in low scrubland with shrub oaks or thorny broom thickets. The high level of habitat overlap resulted in many co-occurrences, with A. sylvaticus always more abundant than the short-tailed mouse. When wood mice were experimentally introduced as an attractor in a low-suitability habitat, they surprisingly attracted many short-tailed mice, but fewer wood mice than were attracted by bait-only traps. Encounters arranged in situ between the attractor and the attracted mice showed predominantly amicable or neutral behaviours and very few instances of agonistic behaviour. We hypothesize that the demographic dominance of wood mice and the abundance of resources during a large part of the year resulted in a non-competitive cohabitation, which may be beneficial to short-tailed mice using wood mice cues as ``public information{''} indicating resource abundance.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;pub-location: PAVILLON CHARLES-EUGENE MARCHAND, LOCAL 0166, ST FOY, QUEBEC G1K 7P4, CANADA&lt;br/&gt;publisher: UNIVERSITE LAVAL</style></notes></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%">Gómez-Sal, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodríguez, M a.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miguel, J M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matter transfer and land use by cattle in a dehesa ecosystem of Central Spain</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vegetatio</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cattle behaviour</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dehesa pastureland</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">distribution of dung</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">habitat preference</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1992</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">99-100</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">345-354</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The transfer of matter by cattle in a 'dehesa' patureland in Central Spain has been quantified by map- ping the distribution of dung and different types of cattle behaviour in several areas distinguished by their geomorphological position, vegetation structure and management regime. Cattle show a clear preference for feeding and dung depositing in the low parts of the estate. This leads to an increase in the productivity and a rapid recycling of nutrients in the pasture communities of these areas. Comparing the relative importance of both processes in each vegetational unit, dung accumula- tion is greater in the higher zones, while in the lower areas biomass consumption is more important. This means that movement of matter by cattle tends to favour the higher ground, in a contrary direction to the downward leaching of nutrients and related processes. In the studied dehesa, this phenomena rep- resents an 'exploitation' factor of the lowland areas, which maintains productive pasture communities more immature in successional terms, by the higher woodland areas, less grazed and with low turnover. This result supports claims made in other studies that animal activity - assessed in our case by the relative impacts of herbivory and dung depositions - connect adjacent ecosystems and thus tends to improve the net energy balance of the more successionally mature part of the system. Livestock movements differ in their spatial pattern during different periods of the year: dispersing in spring and becoming more concentrated and predictable during winter. The clear seasonal differences of herbaceous production in Mediterranean climates and the management activities (basically plough- ing, tree pruning and fodder supply) are the main causes of this pattern.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>