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176 SUMMARY population increase in autumn and is due to several factors. The proportion of breeding adult females is the most important factor determining reproductive success in popu- lations of M. avellanarius. Some young-of- the-year females usually …
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ris et. al. 1990; Woods 1996). According to Vaughan (2001), 13 out of 18 nests were still occupied by M. avellanarius on 22 Novem- ber 1995, and seven of the occupied nests still contained litters of young. The last dor- mice seen that year were two …
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48 3. ECOLOGY OF M. AVELLANARIUS and the second in November-December, nestboxes are deserted only during August, ive. in the dry hot season (Sara et al. 2001). Until now, nobody has _ investigated through side-by side experiments which type of wooden …
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In an experiment in Lithuania with both ordinary wooden bird nestboxes and ce- ramic ones established at the same height in the same tree (n = 100), M. avellanarius showed a particular preference for wooden ones (29% and 2% respectively; x’, = 27.8, p < …
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50 3. ECOLOGY OF M. AVELLANARIUS Table 3. Use of nestboxes set up at different heights by M. avellanarius and A. flavicollis in Lithuania at site B in autumn 1985-1987 Use of nestboxes by ae ’ ES peo M. avellanarius A. flavicollis n % n % 1 105 7 6.7 19 …
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3.3. USE OF NESTBOXES 51 Table 4. Regional peculiarities in nest material used by M. avellanarius in nestboxes Tula region, Russia (Likhachev 1967a) Moscow region, Russia (Likhachev 1967a) Moldova (Lozan 1970) Moldova (Airapetyants 1983) The West …
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3. ECOLOGY OF M. AVELLANARIUS Fig. 27. Preference of green leaves of different trees and shrubs as nest material shown by M. avellanarius in nestboxes in mixed coniferous-deciduous forest in Lithuania. was not valid in the case of black alder Al- nus …
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3.4. ACTIVITY PATTERNS 3.4. Activity patterns in M. avellanarius 3.4.1. Seasonal activity and hibernation Data on the seasonal activity of M. avel- lanarius are usually obtained from monitor- ing nestboxes, and they show dependence on geographical …
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54 3. ECOLOGY OF M. AVELLANARIUS tions, they continue to be active during the first week of October or they may start to hi- bernate (Juskaitis & Biichner 2013). The moulting process is a seasonal phe- nomenon, which has been very little investi- gated in …
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October, but not in spring and early summer (Juskaitis 2008a). According to this indica- tion, the timing of moulting is different in separate demographic groups. In Lithuania, juveniles born in June moult in late July - August, i.e. earlier than adult …