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Movements of bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) were studied in a farmland mosaic in Poland. Distances crossed by animals in short-time periods are significantly longer in heterogenous than in homogenous habitats. In long-time and large-spatial scales, a significant portion of the animals in a population travel among habitat elements of the mosaic, reducing the degree of isolation of patch populations and decreasing the probability of local extinction.
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Kozakiewicz, M., Kozakiewicz, A., Łukowski, A. et al. Use of space by bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) in a polish farm landscape. Landscape Ecol 8, 19–24 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00129864
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