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Association of sympatric small mammal species under contrasting environmental conditions

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The transformation of microenvironmental conditions in habitats of small mammals and related changes in their spatial structure, manifested in changing levels of interspecific contacts, have been studied in microhabitats of plots affected by anemogenic (windfall) and pyrogenic influence in a protected area of the Middle Urals. The association of the dominant species (the bank vole) and other species of the community (grey red-backed vole, northern red-backed vole, and common shrew) increases in environments disturbed by disastrous natural factors. Association of species is less pronounced in the pyrogenic area, compared to the anemogenic area. The type of association between species differs between stages of progressive succession depending on conditions in particular microhabitats and specific features of functional organization in populations of small mammal species.

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Original Russian Text © L.E. Lukyanova, 2013, published in Ekologiya, 2013, No. 1, pp. 65–72.

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Lukyanova, L.E. Association of sympatric small mammal species under contrasting environmental conditions. Russ J Ecol 44, 60–67 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413613010098

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