SEMICE

Seguimiento de los
micromamíferos comunes
de España

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Publications

Recent publications:

• Torre, I., Grajera, J., Amat, F., Oro, D., Mañosa, S. (2024). Prey dynamics and breeding performance in a generalist predator: the differential role of prey density, biomass, and effective consumption rates.
• Llanos, C., Freixas, L., Vilella, M., Bartrina, C., Torre, I. (2024). Seed Availability and Small Mammal Populations: Insights from Mediterranean Forests.
• Torre, I., Requejo, A., Arrizabalaga, A., Baucells, J. (2024). Disentangling the effects of climate and land uses on the small mammals in agroecosystems of NE Spain.
• Torre, I., Balciauskas, L. (2024). Abundance and Dynamics of Small Mammals and Their Predators: An Editorial.
• Torre, I., Díaz-Diethelm, D., Raspall, A., Mugika, G., Cahill, S. (2024). Observations of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) stealing baits from live traps.
• Palau, O., Torre, I. (2024). Testing the efficacy of Heslinga traps for small mammal community assessments.
• De la Huerta, L., Vilella, M., Freixas, L., Torre, I. (2025). Effects of climatic and land use shifts on the population dynamics of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) in the southernmost part of its range.
• Jou, L., Freixas, L., Arrizabalaga, A., Torre, I. (2025). Size and colour variation along a strong environmental gradient in Iberian bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus)..
• Dornelas, M., et al. (2025). BioTIME 2.0: expanding and improving a database of biodiversity time series..
• Torre, I., Capdevila, A., Arrizabalaga, A. (2025). Unsmasking cryptic mice: the dominant role of ventral pelage colour in distinguishing syntopic Apodemus (A. sylvaticus-A. flavicollis)..
• Torre, I., Grajera, J., Olmo-Vidal, JM. (2026). Selective predation and chick provisioning rhythms in the European scops owl (Otus scops)..
• Torre, I., Grajera, J. (2026). Ratoneros al ritmo de la presa: una fascinante dependencia de los micromamíferos..

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Highlighted publications:

• Consolidación del Seguimiento de micromamíferos comunes de España (SEMICE) en todo el territorio nacional. Ayudas Fundación Biodiversidad, convocatoria 2015
• Is bedding material a more effective thermal insulator than trap cover for small mammal trapping? A field experiment.Torre, I., Bustamante, F., Flaquer, C., Oliveira, F. (2023). Journal of Thermal Biology 118
• Indirect Human Influences in Fear Landscapes: Varying Effects of Moonlight on Small Mammal Activity along Man-Made Gradients of Vegetation StructurePasquet, A., Torre, I. & Díaz, M. (2023) Life, 13, 681. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030681
• Is Shrub Encroachment Driving the Decline of Small Mammal Diversity in Pyrenean Grasslands? A Preliminary Study Ignasi Torre and Oriol Palau (2023) Diversity, 15, 232.
• Global change effects on Mediterranean small mammal population dynamics: Demography of Algerian mice (Mus spretus) along land use and climate gradients Torre I, Puig-Montserrat X, Díaz M (2022) Science of the Total Environment
• Assessing the Effects of Landscape Change on the Occupancy Dynamics of the GreaterWhite-Toothed Shrew Crocidura russula Ignasi Torre and Mario Díaz (2022) Life
• Habitat Suitability for Small Mammals in Mediterranean Landscapes: How and Why Shrubs Matter. Ignasi Torre, Carlos Jaime-González and Mario Díaz (2022) Sustainability
• Small mammal sampling incidents related to wild boar (Sus scrofa) in natural peri–urban areas. Torre, I. Cahill, S. Grajera, J. Raspall, A. Vilella, M. (2021) Animal Biodiversity and Conservation
• Multi-species prey dynamics influence local survival in resident and wintering generalist predator. Daniel Oro, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Francesc Carbonell, Joan Grajera, Ignasi Torre (2021) Oecologia
• Population dynamics of small endotherms under global change: Greater white-toothed shrews Crocidura russula in Mediterranean habitats Torre, I., Bastardas-Llabot, J., Arrizabalaga, A. and Díaz, M. (2020) Science of the Total Environment
• Evaluating trap performance and volunteers experience in small mammal monitoring programs based on citizen science: The SEMICE case study.. Ignasi Torre, Alfons Raspall, Antoni Arrizabalaga, Mario Díaz (2019) Mammalian Biology 95 (2019) 26–30
• SEMICE: An unbiased and powerful monitoring protocol for small mammals in the Mediterranean Region. Ignasi Torre, Alfons Raspall, Antoni Arrizabalaga, Mario Díaz (2018) Mammal. Mammalian Biology 88 (2018) 161–167
• The efficiency of two widely used commercial live-traps to developmonitoring protocols for small mammal biodiversity.. Ignasi Torre, Lídia Freixas, Antoni Arrizabalaga, Mario Díaz (2016) Ecological Indicators 66 (2016) 481-487
• Primeros resultados del programa de seguimiento de micromamíferos comunes de España (SEMICE. Torre, I., Arrizabalaga, A., Freixas, L., Pertierra, D. and Raspall, A. (2011) Galemys