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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Main Author: Carl Soulsbury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-07-01
Series:European Journal of Ecology
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Online Access:https://journals.ku.edu/EuroJEcol/article/view/14753