{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Riegert J"],"funding":["Grantová Agentura České Republiky","Czech University of Life Sciences Prague"],"pagination":["4985"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7970837"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["11(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Due to mainly opportunistic hunting behaviour of Barn owl can be its diet composition used for assessing local structure of small-mammal community. We evaluated the structure of small-mammal communities in the Mediterranean region by analysing Barn owl diet using own pellets and literature data (85 localities comprising 182,343 prey individuals). Contrary to widely accepted macroecological theory, we found a latitudinal increase of small-mammal alpha diversity, a less distinct west-east increase and lower diversity on islands. The mean prey weight decreased with increasing latitude, while on islands it decreased with increasing island area. The mean prey weight on islands was further negatively affected by mean land modification by human and positively affected by its range. The diet diver"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pubmed_title":["Large-scale spatial patterns of small-mammal communities in the Mediterranean region revealed by Barn owl diet."],"pmcid":["PMC7970837"],"funding_grant_id":["20174203","206/93/0531"],"pubmed_authors":["Sindelar J","Riegert J","Zarybnicka M","Horacek I"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Large-scale spatial patterns of small-mammal communities in the Mediterranean region revealed by Barn owl diet.","description":"Due to mainly opportunistic hunting behaviour of Barn owl can be its diet composition used for assessing local structure of small-mammal community. We evaluated the structure of small-mammal communities in the Mediterranean region by analysing Barn owl diet using own pellets and literature data (85 localities comprising 182,343 prey individuals). Contrary to widely accepted macroecological theory, we found a latitudinal increase of small-mammal alpha diversity, a less distinct west-east increase and lower diversity on islands. The mean prey weight decreased with increasing latitude, while on islands it decreased with increasing island area. The mean prey weight on islands was further negatively affected by mean land modification by human and positively affected by its range. The diet diver","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Mar","modification":"2025-04-20T02:27:28.552Z","creation":"2025-04-20T02:27:28.552Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7970837","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33654215"],"doi":["10.1038/s41598-021-84683-y"]}}