Localities of three rare mammal species in central and northeastern Poland
Grzegorz Lesiński, Jakub Gryz
2008
Fragmenta Faunistica
Fr a g m e n t a Fa u n is t ic a 51 (1): 6 3 -6 9 , 2008 P L IS S N 0015-9301 © M u s e u m a n d In s t it u A b stra ct: A nalyses o f 6 9 co llectio n s o f the taw n y o w ls ' p ellets (2 8 containing over 100 prey item s) revealed the pres ence o f three rare m am m al sp ecies on several localities in central and northeastern Poland: Muscardinus avellanarius (11 localities), Sicista betulina (3 ), and Crocidura leucodon (2). The obtained results supplem ented data on their distri bution
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