[Landscape-biotopic distinctions in habitat carrying capacity of small mammals and predators, their consumers, at transzonal forest complexes]
2003
Solovej, I.A. | Sidorovich, V.E. | Adamovich, S.G. | Tikhomirova, L.L. (Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk (Belarus))
The forest community consisting of small mammals and their consumer guild was studied in the Poozer'e region, northern Belarus. The pronounced landscape-related differences in the habitat carrying capacity initially based on feeding conditions of the prey were found. A soil type, which has been formed on either sandy or clay deposits of the last glaciation, substantially affects the feeding conditions for small mammals. This determines the habitat carrying capacity for the small mammals, and in turn, for micromammalian consumers. Much higher density of the predators was revealed in the "clay" landscape compared to the "sandy" landscape
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