Findings of overground nests of rodents in the Ukrainian Beskids (upper course of the Dnister)
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Materials are collected and generalised on the overground nesting activity of 4 rodent species under conditions of the north Carpathian taiga: the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), the edible dormouse (Glis glis), the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), and the harvest mouse (Micromys minutus). The locality is characterised by a combination various habitats. Common and unique variants of nests of these species are described, particularly the arrangement by the hazel dormouse of its own nests in nests of the Eurasian wren and song thrush, an unusual nest of the red squirrel, and the nesting of the edible dormouse in an abandoned dress.
2000 ◽
Vol 170
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pp. 511-521
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2021 ◽
Vol 57
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pp. 886-895
2010 ◽
Vol 55
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pp. 279-288
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