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eISSN: 2083-5906
ISSN: 1230-1485
ISSN: 1230-1485
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Characterization Monitoring of Alexandromys
fortis and Apodemus agrarius and the Relationship
with Land Use in Dongting Lake, China
1
Hunan Engineering Research Center of Ecological Environment Intelligent Monitoring and Disaster Prevention and
Mitigation Technology in Dongting Lake Region, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City
University, Yiyang 413000, China
2
College of Forestry, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China
3
Hunan Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Environmental and Resources Plant, Central
South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
4
Dongting Lake Station for Wetland Ecosystem Research, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, The Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
Submission date: 2025-08-05
Final revision date: 2025-10-29
Acceptance date: 2025-11-08
Online publication date: 2026-03-09
Corresponding author
Zhiyuan Hu
Hunan Engineering Research Center of Ecological Environment Intelligent Monitoring and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Technology in Dongting Lake Region, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China
Hunan Engineering Research Center of Ecological Environment Intelligent Monitoring and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Technology in Dongting Lake Region, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China
Xu Zhenggang
Hunan Engineering Research Center of Ecological Environment Intelligent Monitoring and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Technology in Dongting Lake Region, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China
Hunan Engineering Research Center of Ecological Environment Intelligent Monitoring and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Technology in Dongting Lake Region, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, Yiyang 413000, China
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Dongting Lake is a biodiversity hotspot and an important food production base. Small mammals
in the area are mainly rodents, which not only pose a threat to food security but also to human health.
Alexandromys fortis and Apodemus agrarius are the main rodents in the area. Previously, their habitats
were relatively separated, but in recent years, with changes in environmental conditions, they have
invaded each other. In order to achieve effective management of rodents in Dongting Lake, long-term
monitoring of land use types and rodent communities was conducted for 20 years. The results showed
that the construction land continued to increase, and the arable land and forest land remained stable.
During this period, there was no significant relationship between the density of A. fortis and A. agrarius
and the area of different land use types, but the fatness of A. fortis was significantly correlated with
water body area and construction land area. The research suggests that fatness is more suitable and
sensitive than population density during the rodent monitoring.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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