Dataset : Diet of the Barn Owl and variations of small mammal population relative densities

General metadata

Identifiers :

local : FR-18008901306731-2016-02-15-20 external : doi:10.25666/DATAUBFC-2016-02-15-20

Description :

Dietary response of the Barn Owl was monitored in three church towers situated at 2.5, 2 and 1.5 km, 2 and 1.5 km to the small mammal sampling area. Small mammals were monitored in habitats type generally foraged by the Barn Owl (grassland, hedges)

Disciplines :

biodiversity conservation (applied biology - ecology), ecology (applied biology - ecology), ornithology (applied biology - ecology)

Keywords :

bird of prey, Jura mountains, monitoring, small mammals

Dates :

Data acquisition : from Apr 1987 to Apr 1995

Data provision : 31 Jul 2022

Metadata record : Creation : 15 Feb 2016 Update : 16 Aug 2022

Language : French (fra)

Access to data

Rights

Quotation

Dominique Michelat, Pierre Delattre, Jean-Pierre Quéré, Patrick Giraudoux (2022): Diet of the Barn Owl and variations of small mammal population relative densities. Chrono-environnement. doi:10.25666/DATAUBFC-2016-02-15-20

Coverages

Spatial coverage :

Latitude between 46° 59' 16" N and 46° 55' 26" N, longitude between 6° 5' 59" E and 6° 12' E

Taxonomic coverage :

Genus
Sorex
Species
Arvicola terrestris (European water vole), Tyto alba (Barn owl), Myodes glareolus (Bank vole), Microtus arvalis (Common vole)

Administrative metadata

Data creators : Dominique Michelat, Pierre Delattre ^[1], Jean-Pierre Quéré ^[1], Patrick Giraudoux ^[2] ^[3]

Data collector : Pierre Delattre ^[1], Patrick Giraudoux ^[2] ^[3], Dominique Michelat, Jean-Pierre Quéré ^[1]

[1] : Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

[2] : Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (Université de Franche-Comté)

[3] : Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers - Terre, Homme, Environnement, Temps, Astronomie (UAR 3245) (Université de Franche-Comté)

Publisher : Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)

Label : Zone Atelier Arc Jurassien

Science contact : Patrick Giraudoux

Computing contact : Patrick Giraudoux

Access : available

Technical metadata

Formats : application/vnd.ms-excel, text/csv

Data acquisition methods :

Observational data :
Voir Bernard, N., D. Michelat, F. Raoul, J.P. Quere, P. Delattre and P. Giraudoux. 2010. Dietary response of Barn Owls (Tyto alba) to large variations in populations of common voles (Microtus arvalis) and European water voles (Arvicola terrestris). Canadian Journal of Zoology 88: 416-426.

Datatype : Dataset

Publications

Dietary response of Barn Owls (Tyto alba) to large variations in populations of common voles (Microtus arvalis) and European water voles (Arvicola terrestris) (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233648060)
The adaptation of generalist predators’ diet in a multi-prey context: insights from new functional responses (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303531926)