Live trapping is vital for monitoring small mammal population, yet trap type can affect capture success across habitats, species, and sexes. Here we compared metal Sherman traps and wooden Dziekanówka traps in paired setup across forest, meadow, and wetland habitats in the Lower Oder Valley, recording 878 captures. Wooden trap yielded 67% of captures, with forest- dwelling Apodemus flavicollis and meadow-dwelling A. agrarius s...

Terrestrial small mammals are important elements of the food chain, and like other species affected by climate change. Knowledge about their current distribution is of interest to model future developments and monitoring biodiversity loss. However, their monitoring is challenging due to legal restrictions. Here we document a pilot study testing the performance of a non-invasive monitoring strategy for terrestrial small mammals...

The Crocidura obscurior or West African pygmy shrew complex is endemic to West African forests from south‐eastern Guinea, eastern Liberia, southern Côte d'Ivoire and south‐western Ghana. We explore the genetic and morphometric diversity of 239 individuals of the C. obscurior complex from 17 localities across its geographical range. Using genetic data from three mitochondrial (16S, cytochrome b and COI ) and four nuclear marker...