Stone martens (Martes foina) are documented as generalist throughout their distributional range whose diet composition is affected by food availability. We tested if this occurs and what feeding strategies it follows in a typical Mediterranean ecosystem in Central Greece by analysing contents from 106 stomachs, seasonally collected from three different habitats during 2003-2006. Seasonal variat...

Roads have impacts on the fauna arising from habitat fragmentation, roadkill and barrier effect. Furthermore, roads lead species to change their activity with repercussions predator–prey interactions trigger indirect effects that are currently unknown. This study analyzes effect of a motorway trophic behavior terrestrial carnivore community its surroundings. Monthly scat sampling was conducted ...

Invasive species pose a major threat to native species, both through direct interactions, such as competition for resources, and indirect when the invasive acts reservoir host virulent pathogen. Recent research has indicated that recovery of predators can benefit prey compete with prey, in circumstances where predation is more pronounced on naïve species. We use red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris),...