The impact of the striped field mouse's range expansion on communities of native small mammals.

ABSTRACT: Understanding species expansion as an element of the dispersal process is crucial to gaining a better comprehension of the functioning of the populations and the communities. Populations of the same species that are native in one area could be considered nonindigenous, naturalised or invasive somewhere else. The striped field mouse has been expanding its range in south-western Slovakia since 2010, although the origin of the spread has still not been clarified. In light of the striped field mouse's life history, the recent range expansion is considered to be the expansion of a native species. This study analyses the impact of the striped field mouse's expansion on the native population and small mammal communities and confronts the documented stages of striped field mouse expansion with the

SUBMITTER: Tulis F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840622 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature