Lunar illumination shapes small mammal activity in lowland agricultural landscapes
The behavioural patterns of small mammalian prey species have been shown to be widely impacted by predator avoidance. Cues to avoid predation may come from the predator itself or environmental cues, such as moonlight and available vegetative cover. We investigated how the activity of the bank vole...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2021-07-01
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Series: | European Journal of Ecology |
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Online Access: | https://journals.ku.edu/EuroJEcol/article/view/14753 |