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Rodent community of dry African savanna : population study

Rodent community of dry African savanna : population study by Joanna GLIWICZ Agricultural University of Warsaw, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Wildlife Management, Rakowiecka st. 26/30, 02-528 Warsaw, Poland Summary. -- Small mammal community was studied for one year in arid savanna near Cabora Bassa, Mozambique. Information is given on species composition and abundance. For four most common rodent species data on population density, age composition, reproductive period and litter size, as well as taxonomic measurements, are presented. It is suggested that the study site was a dry-season refugium for rodents, and that the revealed pattern of seasonal variation in rodent density resulted from their seasonal dispersal onto the vast areas during the more favorable rainy period. Resume. -- L'etude d'une communaute de petits mammiferes pendant une annee dans une savane aride du Mozambique permet de donner des informations sur les especes qui la constituaient et sur leur abondance. Des donnees sont presentees sur la densite de population, les classes d'äge, la periode de reproduction et Pimportance des portees, ainsi que des mensurations concernant les 4 especes de rongeurs les plus communes. Le milieu etudie parait etre un refuge pour les rongeurs pendant la saison seche. La variation saisonniere de la densite des rongeurs parait resulter de http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mammalia - International Journal of the Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammals de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
ISSN
0025-1461
eISSN
1864-1547
DOI
10.1515/mamm.1985.49.4.509
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Abstract

by Joanna GLIWICZ Agricultural University of Warsaw, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Wildlife Management, Rakowiecka st. 26/30, 02-528 Warsaw, Poland Summary. -- Small mammal community was studied for one year in arid savanna near Cabora Bassa, Mozambique. Information is given on species composition and abundance. For four most common rodent species data on population density, age composition, reproductive period and litter size, as well as taxonomic measurements, are presented. It is suggested that the study site was a dry-season refugium for rodents, and that the revealed pattern of seasonal variation in rodent density resulted from their seasonal dispersal onto the vast areas during the more favorable rainy period. Resume. -- L'etude d'une communaute de petits mammiferes pendant une annee dans une savane aride du Mozambique permet de donner des informations sur les especes qui la constituaient et sur leur abondance. Des donnees sont presentees sur la densite de population, les classes d'äge, la periode de reproduction et Pimportance des portees, ainsi que des mensurations concernant les 4 especes de rongeurs les plus communes. Le milieu etudie parait etre un refuge pour les rongeurs pendant la saison seche. La variation saisonniere de la densite des rongeurs parait resulter de

Journal

Mammalia - International Journal of the Systematics, Biology and Ecology of Mammalsde Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1985

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