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Title:Species richness and distribution of non-volant small mammals along an elevational gradient on a Mediterranean mountain
Authors:ID Kryštufek, Boris (Author)
ID Režek Donev, Nataša (Author)
ID Skok, Janko (Author)
Files:URL http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/MAMM.2010.060
 
Language:English
Work type:Not categorized
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:UPR - University of Primorska
Abstract:We explored the alpha and gamma patterns in species richness of non-volant small mammals on Mt. Snežnik (sea level: 1796 m) on the northern edge of the Mediterranean Basin. A total of 2871 individuals were sampled belonging to 23 different species of rodents and soricomorphs. Two estimates of true species richness (sample-based rarefaction and abundance-based coverage estimator of species richness, ACE) yielded very similar values to empirical data. The empirical number of species varied between 4 and 11 per station in alpha-richness and between 5 and 17 per 200 m elevational interval in gamma-richness. The 95% confidence intervals for ACE overlapped between elevations in both data sets, hence not a single sampling site or elevational interval emerged statistically richest or poorest in the number of species. The two patterns responded to elevation in a very different way but any of the curves was decidedly humped. The mid-domain effect predictions failed to reproduce the pattern of observed or estimated species richness, and hence the ranges were located non-randomly along the elevational gradient. The pattern of distribution and diversity is supposedly generated by the environmental variables correlated to the elevation, which vary in a non-random manner with elevation
Year of publishing:2011
Number of pages:str. 3-11
Numbering:Vol. 75, iss. 1
PID:20.500.12556/RUP-1397 This link opens in a new window
ISSN:0025-1461
UDC:591.9:599.32/.36(497.4Snežnik)
COBISS.SI-ID:1952723 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUP:15.10.2013
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KRYŠTUFEK, Boris, REŽEK DONEV, Nataša and SKOK, Janko, 2011, Species richness and distribution of non-volant small mammals along an elevational gradient on a Mediterranean mountain. [online]. 2011. Vol. 75, no. 1, p. 3–11. [Accessed 5 April 2025]. Retrieved from: http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/MAMM.2010.060
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