The food of the stone marten (Martes foina) was studied in synantrophic enviroment in four localities. Localities were choosen with the aim to follow an urbanization gradient from the center of the city, through its periphery to small villages. The composition of a diet was studied by non-invasive method, by analysis of faeces. Macroscopic remains of the food were divided into eleven categories (mammals, birds, bird eggs, fish, unidentified vertebrates, invertebrates, fruits, vegetative plant parts, anthropogenic material, stones and unidentified remains). 104 different animal and plant taxa were identified. There was often found anthropogenic material. Differences in the diet according the type of enviroment as well as seasonal changes were investigated by comparing of frequency of occurrence and procentual weight of remains. There were found differences between marten's food in urban and rural enviroment, especially as concerned the categories mammals, birds and fruits. Consumption of mammals follows the urbanization gradient, in urban enviroment it is the lowest, in rural localities it is higher. On the contrary, bird frequence was higher in urban environment, in rural enviroment it was lower. Weight of fruit remains was higher in rural localities than in urban ones. There were also seasonal...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:337595 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Nováková, Lucie |
| Contributors | Vohralík, Vladimír, Červený, Jaroslav |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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