Population status, habitat associations, and distribution of the steppe polecat Mustela eversmanii in Europe

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023272:_____/13:N0000001

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13364-013-0134-0" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13364-013-0134-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13364-013-0134-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13364-013-0134-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Population status, habitat associations, and distribution of the steppe polecat Mustela eversmanii in Europe

Original language description

The steppe polecat Mustela eversmanii is a medium-sized mustelid species whose European population has significantly declined over the past century. However, due to the lack of systematic surveys, little is known about its status and distribution. In this paper, we review the current distribution, habitat associations, and population trends of steppe polecats in Europe and assess the main factors associated with these trends. Our results reveal ongoing population declines in most of the studied countries, which led to fragmentation and local population extinctions at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The species was assessed as rapidly declining in Austria, Czech Republic, Moldova, Slovakia, and Ukraine; declining in Bulgaria; and stable in Hungary. Due to insufficient data, its status was not evaluated for Romania, Poland, and Serbia. M. eversmanii naturally occurs in steppe habitats, but recently seems to have adopted open agricultural landscapes consisting of a mosaic of gr

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Acta Theriologica

ISSN

0001-7051

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

233-244

UT code for WoS article

000320330900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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