How often does a strictly arboreal mmal voluntarily cross roads? New insights into the behaviour of the hazel dormouse in the roadside habitats

Title:

How often does a strictly arboreal mmal voluntarily cross roads? New insights into the behaviour of the hazel dormouse in the roadside habitats

Creator:

Kelm, Juliane , Lange, Annika, Schulz, Björn, Göttsche, Matthias, Steffens, Thomas, and Reck, Heinrich

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:67bc1002-d4ad-4d7c-9b43-c574aac9e415
uuid:67bc1002-d4ad-4d7c-9b43-c574aac9e415

Subject:

Muscardinus avellanarius, road ecology, barrier effect, and motorway

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Roads are a threat to biological diversity. Especially the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) can be badly influenced by fragmentation due to its strictly arboreal activity. In this study a Northern German dormouse population living in roadside habitats and on road islands at crossroads was investigated to find out if road crossing is an exceptional behaviour or if it happens regularly. With capture-mark-recapture-method 30 crossings (mostly across a federal highway, three of them across a federal motorway) and via telemetry 27 crossings over federal highway and smaller streets were observed. Our study gives evidence, that road crossing can be a relatively frequent behaviour, as 18 % of the mark-recaptured and 60 % of the radio marked animals crossed roads, but it remains unclear, under which circumstances road crossing takes place.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Folia zoologica | 2015 Volume:64 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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