Range expansion in unfavorable environments through behavioral responses to microclimatic conditions: Moose (Alces americanus) as the model
Publication date: Available online 26 May 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): David W. Wattles, Katherine A. Zeller, Stephen DeStefanoAbstractWildlife populations occurring at the edge of their range boundaries are thought to be the most sensitive to climate change due to temperatures being at or near the limit of a species’ thermal envelope. Moose (Alces americanus) are a cold adapted species that are showing population declines in some portions of the southern edge of their range. However, other moose populations are actively expanding southward into thermally stressful areas. The direct effects of temperature on m...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
The first record of mitochondrial haplotypes of Gazella marica (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in wild populations in Iran
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Davoud Fadakar, Masoumeh Mirzakhah, Saeid Naderi, Eva V. Bärmann, Maryam Naseri Nasari, Fasiheh Mohammadi Gorji, Hamid Reza RezaeiAbstractIran with its highly structured landscape, such as the Zagros Mountain Range that stretches across the country from East to West, is home to at least three different gazelle species. For some of them, intraspecific genetic patterning is to be expected, as different populations show different pelage coloration or body sizes, e.g., in the Persian gazelle (G. subgutturosa). This species is especially interest...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Thermal forest zone explains regional variations in the diet composition of the Japanese marten (Martes melampus)
Publication date: Available online 15 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Masumi Hisano, Chris Newman, Shota Deguchi, Yayoi KanekoAbstractExamining biogeographical variations in species’ diet is important for linking key ecological traits between consumers and their environment. While the trophic ecology of the Holarctic martens has been globally synthesised, systematic information on the feeding ecology of martens (Martes spp.) in Asia is still deficient compared to species in Europe and North America. Here we conduct a meta-analysis based on literature describing regional and seasonal variation in diet composi...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Is nocturnal activity compensatory in chamois? A study of activity in a cathemeral ungulate
In conclusion, our findings denote chamois as a cathemeral species able to adapt its behavioural patterns to match varying environmental conditions. (Source: Mammalian Biology)
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Foot postures and grasping of free-ranging Sunda colugos (Galeopterus variegatus) in West Java, Indonesia
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Dionisios Youlatos, Kanthi Arum Widayati, Yamato TsujiAbstractColugos (order Dermoptera) are medium-sized nocturnal arboreal eutherian euarchontan mammals, which glide, climb vertically and hang from different arboreal substrates in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Their close phylogenetic position to either Primates (as Primatomorpha) or Scandentia (as Sundatheria) renders them significant for understanding evolutionary-adaptive trends of key features within the Euarchonta (primates, scandentia, dermoptera, and plesiadapiformes). In this ...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Water vole Arvicola amphibius population under the impact of the American mink Neovison vison: Are small midfield ponds safe refuges against this invasive predator?
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Marcin Brzeziński, Tomasz Borowik, Patrycja Chibowska, Andrzej Zalewski, Ewa KomarAbstractThe American mink Neovison vison is an invasive carnivore which may significantly affect populations of the water vole Arvicola amphibius. However, its impact on this rodent species depends on the abundance, dispersion and configuration of the habitats suitable for water voles and their accessibility for the mink. Using live-trapping, we studied the water vole and American mink populations inhabiting midfield ponds located in the vicinity of a large la...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Mitochondrial sequences retrieve an ancient lineage of Bicolored shrew in the Hyrcanian refugium
In this study we analysed mitochondrial cytochrome b genes (1137 bp) of nine shrews from the Caspian region in Iran. Phylogenetic trees obtained in Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian analyses retrieved a sister position of our Iranian haplotypes (Iranian lineage) against all the remaining C. leucodon samples from Europe, Turkey and Georgia (Euro-Asian lineage). Identical topology was also evident from the unrooted phylogenetic network. The Euro-Asian and the Iranian lineages were separated by a K2P genetic distance of 7.5 ± 0.9 and diverged 1.14 Mya (95% CI: 0.841-1.616). The geographic range of the Iranian lineage is ev...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Toward assembling a taxonomic puzzle: case study of Iranian gray voles of the subgenus Microtus (Rodentia, Cricetidae)
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): F.N. Golenishchev, V.G. Malikov, S. Yu Bodrov, T.V. Petrova, N.I. AbramsonAbstractThe voles of the subgenus Microtus, which includes six species of the so-called “arvalis” group, have always been problematic for classification. Some group members differ in chromosome number and karyotype structure and yet appear morphologically indistinguishable, while others have very similar karyotypes despite exhibiting significant morphological differences. Two “arvalis” voles from Iran, M. kermanensis and M. mystacinus, are among the least studi...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Acoustic detection of radiotracked foraging bats in temperate lowland forests
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Laurent Tillon, Michel Barataud, Sylvie Giosa, Stéphane AulagnierAbstractDuring the recent years studies of bat activity are predominantly based on ultrasound detection. However this method suffers from several biases such as different species call ranges, temporal and habitat-related variability. In order to test the bias linked to the detection of whispering gleaning bats in temperate lowland forests, we equipped several individuals of Myotis bechsteinii and Plecotus auritus with transmitters and followed them on their foraging grounds wh...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Who nose the borzoi? Turbinal skeleton in a dolichocephalic dog breed (Canis lupus familiaris)
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Franziska Wagner, Irina Ruf,AbstractThe domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) shows a high intraspecific morphological diversity in its facial shape with a less well-known effect of different snout length types on the intranasal structures, i.e. the turbinal skeleton. Sighthounds are supposed to have a less developed sense of smell in favor of their visual abilities. It has been proposed that within the small space of a sighthound’s slender snout the turbinals are less in number and reduced. In a recent ethological study the English greyho...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Chemical compounds in Neotropical fruit bat-plant interactions
Publication date: Available online 30 June 2018Source: Mammalian BiologyAuthor(s): Lays Cherobim Parolin, Fabricio Augusto Hansel, Gledson Vigiano Bianconi, Sandra Bos MikichAbstractFruit-eating bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests. Olfaction seems to be the main sense used by these bats to locate and select food. Previous studies have demonstrated that they identify and select volatile organic compounds, being able to track essential oils of their preferred fruits. However, the specific role played by different compounds in this attraction is largely unknown. Here, we used chromatographic analysis and at...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: July 2018Source: Mammalian Biology, Volume 91Author(s): (Source: Mammalian Biology)
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Bats of the Philippine Islands—A review of research directions and relevance to national-level priorities and targets
Publication date: July 2018Source: Mammalian Biology, Volume 91Author(s): Krizler Cejuela Tanalgo, Alice Catherine HughesAbstractEffective science-based conservation priorities and policies are crucially important to effectively maintain biodiversity into the future. For many threatened species and systems, insufficient information exists to generate priorities, or the mechanisms needed to effectively conserve species into the future, and this is especially important in megadiversity countries like the Philippines, threatened by rapid rates of development and with few overarching strategies to maintain their biodiversity. ...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Habitat occupancy by Artibeus planirostris bats in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil
In this study, we ask whether vegetation structure determines the occupancy by and detectability of the fruit-eating bat Artibeus planirostris among habitats in the Pantanal wetland. We mistnetted bats in the wet and dry seasons, and measured vegetation structures in 36 sites systematically established each 1 km. The probability of occupancy was negatively influenced by the mean distance between trees, with a pronounced decrease in sites with less than about 16 trees per hectare, and the detectability was negatively influenced by moonlight. Artibeus planirostris tended to widely occupy the available vegetation gradient, ...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Pleistocene diversification of Afghan pikas Ochotona rufescens (Gray, 1842) (Lagomorpha; Ochotonidae) in Western Asia
Publication date: July 2018Source: Mammalian Biology, Volume 91Author(s): Zeinolabedin Mohammadi, Jamshid Darvish, Mansour Aliabadian, Faezeh Yazdani Moghaddam, Andrey A. Lissovsky, Urban OlssonAbstractPhylogeography and taxonomy of Afghan pikas Ochotona rufescens in Western Asia were investigated based on a combination of mitochondrial cyt b gene sequences and morphometric analyses. We measured 200 specimens from the whole range of O. rufescens in Western Asia, including the holotypes of O. r. regina, O. r. shukurovi, O. r. vulturna, O. r. vizier and samples from vicinity of the type locality of O. r. rufescens. Principal...
Source: Mammalian Biology - July 5, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
