Low Biodiversity of Small Mammals in Soybean Fields in the Northern Flint Hills, Kansas
| Autor: | Donald W. Kaufman, Glennis A. Kaufman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
010506 paleontology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Peromyscus biology Ecology animal diseases fungi 010607 zoology Biodiversity food and beverages Woodland biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Crop Agronomy Habitat parasitic diseases Reithrodontomys megalotis medicine Deer mouse medicine.vector_of_disease 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Riparian zone |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 120:175-182 |
| ISSN: | 1938-5420 0022-8443 |
| Popis: | We studied small mammals in lowland soybean fields along Kings Creek on Konza Prairie during autumn 1981 and spring 1982 to assess the composition of the small mammal community in this particular cropland habitat. We also compared species composition and other community characteristics in these crop fields to those observed in native prairie, planted brome grasslands and riparian woodlands. The small mammal community in the soybean fields was dominated by seed-eating rodents as we recorded 100% deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) during autumn and primarily deer mice (92%) with a low proportion (8%) of white-footed mice (P. leucopus) during spring. In upland tallgrass prairie comprised primarily of warm-season grasses, the small mammal community was dominated by deer mice (32%), western harvest mice (30%; Reithrodontomys megalotis) and by white-footed mice (8%) in autumn and then by deer mice (35%), white-footed mice (22%) and harvest mice (21%) in spring. The community of small mammals in soybean fields w... |
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