Insectivora, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia and Carnivora of the Gran Paradiso National Park: checklist and preliminary ecological characterization

摘要: Between 1992 and 1996 a survey was carried out in the Gran Paradiso National Park (Western Italian Alps) order to draw up species list collect ecological information on different taxa of orders Insectivora, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Rodentia Carnivora, excluding marmot fox. Data were obtained from sources, among which: sighting, trapping, inspection discarded bottles, pellet analysis visit potential bat roost sites. With exception data pellets, records are reported with regard seven habitat types: human settlements, deciduous woods, mixed coniferous ecotones (stream edges grassland close woods), green alder shrubwoods alpine open habitats far woodland. At more detailed level composition communities woodland Insectivores Rodents is described. In forests most frequently trapped Clethrionomys glareolus, Apodemus sp. Sorex araneus; woods dominant glareolus Eliomys quercinus.