%0 Journal Article
%T Small mammals found in discarded bottles in alpine and pre-alpine areas of NW-Italy
%A Paolo Debernardi
%A Elena Patriarca
%A Aurelio Perrone
%A Marco Cantini
%J Hystrix : the Italian Journal of Mammalogy
%D 1997
%I Associazione Teriologica Italiana
%R 10.4404/hystrix-9.1-2-4109
%X 189 bottles and 6 cans, containing the remains of 904 small mammals were collected in alpine and pre-alpine areas of Piedmont, Aosta Valley and Lombardy. The following taxa were recorded: Sorex alpinus, Sorex araneus, Sorex minutus, Neomys fodiens, Crocidura leucodon, Crocidura suaveolens, Eliomys quercinus, Clethrionomys glareolus, Microtus arvalis, Microtus multiplex/subterraneus, Microtus savii, Chionomys nivalis, Apodemus spp., Mus domesticus, Soricidae was the best represented family in the sample (73.5% of the specimens found), with a different occurrence of Crocidurinae and Soricinae in xerothermic and non-xerothermic areas.
%K Discarded bottles/cans
%K Small mammals
%U http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/article/view/4109