We analyzed the responses of small mammals to clear-cutting in temperate and boreal
forests in Europe. We conducted a meta-analysis of published research on most often …

Riparian wildlife is as important as vegetation in maintaining watercourse ecological
integrity, yet present riparian buffer guidelines often fail to maintain sufficient terrestrial …

Over the last decades, profound changes in agricultural practices in the world have led to
modifications of land-use as well as landscape structure and composition. Major changes …

The relationship between the body condition of different small mammal species and the
habitat they occupy is poorly analyzed. We analyzed the body condition index, BCI, of 18 …

Prey selection, food niche overlap and resource partitioning were investigated in semi‐
aquatic Neomys fodiens and Neomys anomalus and terrestrial Sorex araneus and Sorex …

Shrews (genus Sorex, small insectivorous mammals) are well known for their extremely high
basal metabolic rates (BMRs) even when corrected for their small body size. We measured …

Abstract The Eurasian Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens) is one of the largest shrew (Soricidae)
species in Eurasia. In Western Europe, this semiaquatic species often occurs in riparian and …

Muridae such as rats and mice are important hosts of (zoonotic) pathogens in urbanized
environments. Controlling their population size is an important component of public health …

Ecosystem engineers, such as the Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber, transform habitats, thereby
creating favourable conditions for other species and increasing biodiversity. Multiple studies …

Environmental factors and competition in closely related sympatric species may result in
character displacement or phenotypic convergence. We studied the effects of sympatry on …