Microhabitat partitioning of Apodemus flavicollis and Myodes glareolus in the sub-montane Alps: a preliminary assessment

摘要: Interspecific competition can cause partitioning in habitat use by sympatric species. This study gives a preliminary contribution to the understanding of microhabitat Apodemus flavicollis and Myodes glareolus sub-montane habitats. A total 1000 trap nights subalpine forest Austrian Otscher mountain showed that high- low-tree cover, high-shrub plot location or out forest, distance from edge were variables which discriminated sites capture two A. seemed be more associated with than M. , which, contrast, preferred areas well within high tree shrub cover. Our results suggest species show some level according structure.