L. S. Thomas, Edna Teich, K. Dausmann, S. Reher, James M. Turner
{"title":"Degree of urbanisation affects Eurasian red squirrel activity patterns","authors":"L. S. Thomas, Edna Teich, K. Dausmann, S. Reher, James M. Turner","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00065-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00065-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements Wiebke Schütt and Julian Glos contributed valuable statistical advice. Lisa Warnecke’s generous assistance benefitted initial project planning and Kay Michaelis helped in the field. We are grateful for Deanna Du y at the Spatial Data Analysis Network of Charles Sturt University, who analysed vegetation cover and produced the site maps. We thank the Hamburg Cemeteries Institute of Public Law and Ohlsdorf Cemetery grounds sta for site access. Animal ethics and research conduct permissions were granted by the City of Hamburg Board of Health and Consumer Protection (permit no. 76/13) and the City of Hamburg Board of Urban Development and Environment. The project was supported by grants awarded to JMT by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85743128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new sampling method to detect the Pyrenean desman ( Galemys pyrenaicus )","authors":"J. González‐esteban, A. Esnaola, J. Aihartza","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00078-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00078-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements This work was funded by the EU project LIFE IREKIBAI (LIFE14 NAT/ES/000186) and the Basque Government. Amaiur Esnaola enjoyed a predoctoral grant by the Basque Government. Authors are very thankful for Arturo Elosegi and Aitor Arrizabalaga for their assistance in making this work possible, and also for technical and human support provided by Secuencing and Genotyping Unit – Genomic Facilities – SGIker (UPV/EHU/ERDF, EU). Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77387425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Ruiz-Olmo, César Pinyol, Damià Sánchez, À. Such-Sanz
{"title":"Breeding pattern of wildcat Felis silvestris (Schreber, 1777) studied in captivity in the iberian peninsula","authors":"J. Ruiz-Olmo, César Pinyol, Damià Sánchez, À. Such-Sanz","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00056-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00056-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements Acknowledgement should be addressed to some persons for its participation during the project, specially José (Pepe) Guillén, Xavier Marco, Julián Sánchez Bravo, Fernando Martínez, Yolanda Llop (Yoli), Lluis Culleré García, Silverio Cerradelo, Rocío del Carmen Muñoz Ruiz, José Luis Santiago Fidalgo, Antonio López Fernández, David García del Busto Cano, Verónica Herrero Redondo, Fernando Gallardo Cruz, Israel Sáez, Francesc Arrébola, and Jordi Arnau Moliner. Also acknowledgement to Paula Such Borrás by their english revision. Two anonymous referees provided interesting comments on earlier drafts which greatly improved the final version of the manuscript. Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87109351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manjari Malviya, Vinod Kumar, D. Mandal, M. Sarkar, P. Nigam, R. Gopal, K. Sankar, G. Umapathy, K. Ramesh
{"title":"Correlates of physiological stress and habitat factors in reintroduction-based recovery of tiger ( Panthera tigris ) populations","authors":"Manjari Malviya, Vinod Kumar, D. Mandal, M. Sarkar, P. Nigam, R. Gopal, K. Sankar, G. Umapathy, K. Ramesh","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00063-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00063-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Government of India [NTCA Order No. 1-3/93-PT (Vol. II)]. We thank Wildlife Institute of India (P.R. Sinha and V.B. Mathur), the State Forest Departments of Madhya Pradesh (H.S. Pabla, N. Kumar, D. Shukla, S. Kumar and R.S. Murthy) and Rajasthan (V.K. Melhotra, R.S. Shekhawat and M. Parashar); colleagues (J.A. Johnson, S. Sen, Q.Qureshi, S. Bhattacharya, P. Chaurasia, D. Chatterjee, S.K. Bhardwaj, M. Naveen and S. Roamin) and field sta for providing support and facilitating field data collection. We are grateful to the reviewers and especially the editor of the manuscript for valuable inputs. These tiger reintroductions were implemented as per the protocol issued by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), which is the supreme authority in India, as far as tiger management is concerned. In this protocol, NTCA has incorporated IUCN reintroduction specialist groups’ guidelines. In term of field execution, the chief Wildlife Warden is empowered to carry out such management interventions, but because India is signatory to IUCN, the guidelines laid down by IUCN are generally followed and in this specific context has been incorporated through NTCA protocols. Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91128819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Geiger, A. Taucher, S. Gloor, D. Hegglin, F. Bontadina
{"title":"In the footsteps of city foxes: evidence for a rise of urban badger populations in Switzerland","authors":"M. Geiger, A. Taucher, S. Gloor, D. Hegglin, F. Bontadina","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00069-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00069-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Single observations of badgers in urban areas have been interpreted as relicts of formerly rural populations that have merely survived urban encroachment. However, decades after the rise of urban fox populations in continental Europe, there is evidence from Switzerland which suggests that badgers may be following a similar trend. We present long-term traffic casualty data, a comparison over time of camera trap studies, and incidental observations collected in a Swiss citizen science project which indicate both an increase of badgers at the national scale as well as a range expansion into urban areas. Their rather delayed and slow increase, compared to foxes, might be based on slower reproduction and less flexible behavioural adaptations. Our data, however, suggest that badgers are recovering delayed from a population depression following the rabies epizootic of the 1960s and 70s and may be starting to expand their range through the colonisation of urban habitats, similar as foxes did during the 20th century.","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78516545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From exploration to establishment: Activity changes of the first collared peccary ( Pecari tajacu ) group reintroduced in South America","authors":"C. Hurtado, H. Beck, Paporn Thebpanya","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00058-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00058-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements Funding was provided by the Conservation Land Trust (CLT), the Phoenix Zoo, and Towson University Graduate Student Association. We thank the CLT sta and volunteers, especially I. Jimenez, S. Di Martino, E. Galetto, N. Insaurralde, J. Peña, A. Garcia and A. Lema. We also thank M. Altrichter and R. Swaisgood for their help during this project. We also thank C. Burton, E. Tattersall, J. van Bommel and the anonymous reviewers for their comments on the manuscript. Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78688559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual dimorphism, allometry, and interspecific variation in the cranial morphology of seven Meriones species (Gerbillinae, Rodentia)","authors":"F. T. Yazdi, B. H. Alhajeri","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00018-2017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00018-2017","url":null,"abstract":"Jirds (Meriones) are a mostly desert-adapted genus of gerbils, with a wide geographic range, through which it encounters various climatic conditions, which may influence their morphology. In this study, we quantified cranial morphometric variation both within and among seven jird species (M. meridianus, M. hurrianae, M. crassus, M. tristrami, M. persicus, M. libycus and M. vinogradovi), based on a two-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometric analysis of 972 specimens, covering their entire geographic distribution. The aforementioned analysis was used to compare sexual dimorphism in size and shape within each species, as well as the relationship between size and shape (i.e. allometry) for each species. Despite greatly overlapping in morphospace (when examined visually), statistical analysis indicates significant differences in both size and shape among the seven examined jird species. UPGMA and CVA both show two main species clusters. Deformation grids indicate that these two clusters differ mostly in the relative size of the tympanic bulla, along with differences in the extent of nasal elongation, and the broadness of the zygomatic arch. Allometric changes in shape were analyzed in all species that show an allometric relationship. Sexual dimorphism in shape and size was detected in only three of the seven jird species. A visual inspection of the data indicates high overlap in shape space, and that male skulls are significantly larger than female skulls. When specimens were divided by sex, we found significant allometry in six of the seven species (for both sexes). A factorial multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) indicated that even when taking size variation into account, the residual shape variation was also significantly different among the sexes of the examined species. The outcome of this study confirms the presence of cranial variation in the examined jirds, and that the patterns of sexual dimorphism and allometry vary considerably among jird species.","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76744856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessio Iannucci, C. Natali, C. Ciofi, P. Sposimo, S. Fratini
{"title":"Population genetic analysis of invasive black rats: Defining eradication units in the Tuscan Archipelago National Park","authors":"Alessio Iannucci, C. Natali, C. Ciofi, P. Sposimo, S. Fratini","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00006-2017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00006-2017","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledgements We are grateful to Giulia Cutuli for assistance with genetic analysis of Montecristo black rat samples. This research was funded by the European Commission LIFE projects LIFE08 NAT/IT/000353 – “Montecristo 2010: Eradication of invasive alien plants and animals and protection of native species and habitats in the Tuscan Archipelago” and LIFE13 NAT/IT/000471 – RESTO CON LIFE “Island conservation in Tuscany, restoring habitat not only for birds”. Genetic analysis was supported by a University of Florence grant to Stefano Cannicci. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Abstract","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77326307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Khalatbari, G. Yusefi, F. Martínez‐Freiría, H. Jowkar, J. Brito
{"title":"Availability of prey and natural habitats are related with temporal dynamics in range and habitat suitability for Asiatic Cheetah","authors":"L. Khalatbari, G. Yusefi, F. Martínez‐Freiría, H. Jowkar, J. Brito","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00080-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00080-2018","url":null,"abstract":"1CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, R. Padre Armando Quintas, 4485–661 Vairão, Portugal 2Departamento de Biologia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal 3Mohitban Society, No. 91, Moghaddas Ardebili str., 19859-14747 Tehran, Iran 4Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project, I.R. Iran Department of Environment, Pardisan Park, Hemmat Highway, 11369 Tehran, Iran","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77115972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting the daily rhythms of a semiaquatic carnivore in a Mediterranean environment","authors":"L. Quaglietta, A. Mira, L. Boitani","doi":"10.4404/HYSTRIX-00022-2017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4404/HYSTRIX-00022-2017","url":null,"abstract":"1Dipartimento di Biologia “Charles Darwin”, Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Viale dell’Università 32, 00185 Roma, Italy 2Current address: CIBIO/InBio – Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos da Universidade do Porto, Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal CEABN/InBIO, Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Prof Baeta Neves”, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal 3ICAAM — Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Institute — University of Évora, Portugal 4Current address: CIBIO – Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research Center – Pólo de Évora, University of Évora, Portugal","PeriodicalId":55036,"journal":{"name":"Hystrix-Italian Journal of Mammalogy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81645099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}