Landscape settlement and parameters of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) home ranges in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-022-01624-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-022-01624-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01624-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10344-022-01624-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Landscape settlement and parameters of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) home ranges in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Over the last few decades, the beaver has settled most of the European continent including the Czech Republic. Until recently, it was a species typically found in lowland floodplain forests. However, as the population grew, it began to spread into the agricultural landscape, where it has less favorable living conditions. In the Czech Republic, beavers were known to concentrate especially in large forest complexes; little information is so far available about their settlement of the agricultural landscape. At the same time, beaver management in the Czech Republic is applied according to zones with different levels of protection for this species; therefore, the assessment of beaver populations in different environmental conditions is essential. The article focuses on beaver population density, home range length, distribution, and dispersion in the four main types of environments, as well as on differences in food selection. Beaver population density is the highest in forest localities with small streams; the beaver finds the most suitable living conditions there. On average, the agricultural landscape is less populated. While population density in large rivers in the agricultural landscape is comparable to that in large rivers in the forest due to environmental conditions that can be similar, small streams in the agricultural landscape are inhabited 3.3 times less than small streams in forests because they are generally unsuitable environments with limited resources. The lengths of home ranges depend on the environment, the density of beavers, and especially on the availability of food resources. Likewise, the distances that beavers search for food differ, thus affecting their spatial activity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Wildlife Research

ISSN

1439-0574

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000901041000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85144327630