Small terrestrial mammals (Rodentia, Eulipotyphla) of the Landes de Gascogne forest (southwestern France).

Occurrence
Latest version published by CBGP (UMR INRAE, Cirad, IRD, Institut Agro | Montpellier) on Apr 29, 2025 CBGP (UMR INRAE, Cirad, IRD, Institut Agro | Montpellier)
Publication date:
29 April 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The dataset contains occurrences records of small terrestrial mammals (Rodentia and Eulipotyphla) trapped within a 1,050 km² area of the Landes de Gascogne forest in southwestern France ( 44°33'38.2"N 0°46'36.7"W). The Landes de Gascogne forest is a vast, human-planted temperate forest, established in the 19th century and dominated by maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) monocultures (>70%). Characterized by an oceanic climate and sandy soils, the region also retains scattered remnants of native broadleaved forests, creating a patchwork of habitats. Sampling was carried out during both spring and autumn of 2023 and 2024, across 53 different sites representing three habitat types : pine edges (12 sites), broadleaved hedgerows (24 sites) and broadleaved forest patches (17 sites). Broadleaved hedgerows, composed mainly of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) and tauzin oak (Quercus pyrenaica), ranged from 100 to 400 meters in length, 2 to 15 meters in width, and 5 to 20 meters in height. Broadleaved forest sites were only sampled after spring 2024, resulting in the following seasonal sampling effort: spring 2023 (35 sites), autumn 2023 (36 sites), spring 2024 (52 sites) and autumn 2024 (51 sites). Sampling sites were selected to represent a gradient of tree diversity and forest management intensity: pine edges reflect intensively managed monoculture plantations, broadleaved hedgerows serve as semi-natural structure that may enhance biodiversity within plantation matrices and broadleaved forest patches are relativelyt unmanaged remnants of native forest. Live trapping was conducted using INRA live traps placed on the ground for three to four consecutive nights per site and season. A total of 513 small mammals were captured and identified. They belong to at least 6 species, among which there are four species of rodents (Muridae, Cricetidae) and two species of shrews (Soricidae). Shrews were marked and released after capture, while most rodents were euthanized and preserved. Preserved specimens were weighted (gram) and measured (mm): both body length and tail length. In addition, external and internal sexual characteristics were also recorded. Due to sampling restrictions limiting the number of individuals per site, some rodents were not preserved; these were marked and released, and all belonged to the same species (Apodemus sylvaticus). This dataset aims to better understand the relationship between small terrestrial mammal biodiversity and health in the context of ecological restoration, and in particular in human-modified forest ecosystems. It is part of the European BEPREP project (https://www.beprep-project.eu/), and represents data from case study no. 4. The dataset will support analyses of small mammal community composition across habitat types, and allow for the evaluation of temporal patterns in species diversity across seasons and years.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 513 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
513
MeasurementOrFacts 
5643

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Berard A, Pradel J, Loiseau A, Piry S, Galan M, Berthier K, Plat N, Jactel H, Charbonnel N (2025). Small terrestrial mammals (Rodentia, Eulipotyphla) of the Landes de Gascogne forest (southwestern France).. Version 1.4. CBGP (UMR INRAE, Cirad, IRD, Institut Agro | Montpellier). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=cbgp_small_terrestrial_mammals_beprep&v=1.4

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is CBGP (UMR INRAE, Cirad, IRD, Institut Agro | Montpellier). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d7bc7ec7-ef5c-4b20-9f68-ea280a1a5820.  CBGP (UMR INRAE, Cirad, IRD, Institut Agro | Montpellier) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Nathalie Charbonnel
  • Senior researcher (DR2, INRAE)
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
  • Av. Agropolis
34988 Montferrier sur Lez
Hérault
FR
  • +4 99 62 33 02
Julien Pradel
  • Technician (TR, INRAE)
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
  • Av. Agropolis
34988 Montferrier sur Lez
Hérault
FR
  • +4 99 62 33 02
Aloïs Berard
  • Originator
  • PhD INRAE
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
Anne Loiseau
  • Originator
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
  • Technician
FR
Sylvain Piry
  • Originator
  • research engin
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
FR
Maxime Galan
  • Originator
  • research engineer
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
FR
Karine Berthier
  • Originator
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
FR
Nattan Plat
  • Originator
INRAE
Herve Jactel
  • Originator
INRAE
Julien Pradel
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
34988 Montferrier sur Lez
Hérault
FR
Nathalie Charbonnel
INRAE-CBGP : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - Centre de Biologie pour la gestion des Populations
34988 Montferrier sur Lez
Hérault
FR

Geographic Coverage

N/A

Bounding Coordinates South West [44.483, -0.978], North East [44.687, -0.533]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2023-05-31 / 2024-10-05

Sampling Methods

Small mammals were trapped using INRA live-traps during both spring and autumn of 2023 and 2024. For each of the 53 distincts trapping site, 20 traps were set up in a line with around 5m interval. Traps were baited with sunflower seeds, carrots and canned sardine. Each trap was geolocated. The traps were checked daily in the morning. Trapping session per site lasted between three and four nights.

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name CBGP small mammal database (BPM, http://bpm-cbgp.science)
Collection Identifier doi:10.15454/WWNUPO

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers d7bc7ec7-ef5c-4b20-9f68-ea280a1a5820
https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=cbgp_small_terrestrial_mammals_beprep