Food habits of genetically identified pine marten (Martes martes) expanding in agricultural lowlands (NW Italy)

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 199-207

  Balestrieri, Alessandro ^a   Remonti, Luigi ^a   Ruiz González, Aritz ^b   Vergara, Maria ^b   Capelli, Enrica ^a   Gómez Moliner, Benjamín J ^b   Prigioni, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diet analysis; Non invasive sampling; PCR RFLP method; Range expansion; Rodent availability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARNIVORE; DIET; FECAL PELLET; FOOD INTAKE; LAGOMORPH; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MUSTELID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RANGE EXPANSION; RAPTOR; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYMPATRY;

ITALY; PO RIVER;

APODEMUS; AVES; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; MARTES MARTES; MURIDAE; MUS; RATTUS; RATTUS SP.; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958194839     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: 21903743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13364-010-0015-8     Document Type: Article

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