1. Diet of Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus in a farmland area near Algiers, Algeria
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Djamel Bendjoudi, Karim Souttou, Christiane Denys, Emmanuelle Stoetzel, Omar Guezoul, Salaheddine Doumandji, Fadila Baziz-Neffah, Makhlouf Sekour, Abdessalam Manaa, Institut National Agronomique - Alger (INAA), Institut National Agronomique - Alger, Institut National d'Agronomie d'Alger (INAA), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Faculté des Sciences AgroeVétérinaires, Département d’Agronomie, Université de Saâd Dahlab [Blida] (USDB ), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Origine, structure et évolution de la biodiversité (OSEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PHC CMEP Tassili (09mdu755, coord. C Denys and S Doumandji), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Université des Antilles (UA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), and Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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0106 biological sciences ,Biomass (ecology) ,Mus spretus ,Ecology ,Elanus caeruleus ,Black-shouldered kite ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,010605 ornithology ,Predation ,[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology ,Accipitridae ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,human activities ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
International audience; The diet of the Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus was analysed in a recently colonised area in Meftah, south-eastern Algiers, Algeria. The diet was determined by analysing 144 pellets. Our data showed that the diet was dominated by rodents with Algerian mouse Mus spretus comprising between 61% and 77% of the diet. Based on relative biomass, rodents were the main prey species, comprising 88.1% of the diet in 2006, 68.4% in 2007 and 52.0% in 2008. Birds were the second-most important prey, comprising as much as 43.4% of the diet in 2008. The Algerian mouse was the major prey species both in spring (60.0% in 2007) and in summer (80.0% in 2006).
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- 2013
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