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Afromontane mosaic vegetation acts as a barrier between small mammals from two savannah biomes in northern Ethiopia

Despite its biogeographical uniqueness, where two vast savanna regions are separated by the Afromontane mosaic vegetation, there is a significant lack of small mammal sampling in the Tigray region of Ethiopia....

Kiros Welegerima, Yonas Meheretu, Josef Bryja… in Biodiversity and Conservation (2024)

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A new rodent species of the genus Mus (Rodentia: Muridae) confirms the biogeographical uniqueness of the isolated forests of southern Ethiopia

The Ethiopian highlands represent the largest part of the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot (EAMBH). Their fauna and flora are largely unique. Particularly, Afroalpine habitats on isolated mountains are...

Jarmila Krásová, Ondřej Mikula, Leonid A. Lavrenchenko… in Organisms Diversity & Evolution (2022)

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Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism

The Afar Triangle in easternmost Africa is one of biogeographically important regions, whose recent biota is virtually unknown. Here we evaluated the level of evolutionary uniqueness of biodiversity of this re...

Josef Bryja, Yonas Meheretu, Zbyszek Boratyński, Ali Zeynu… in Biodiversity and Conservation (2022)

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Ear morphology in two root-rat species (genus Tachyoryctes) differing in the degree of fossoriality

It is supposed that the subterranean lifestyle in mammals is reflected in ear morphology and tuning of hearing to low frequencies. We studied two root-rat species to see if their ear morphology reflects the di...

Lucie Pleštilová, Ema Hrouzková, Hynek Burda… in Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2021)

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New data on the distribution and phylogenetic position of Mastomys awashensis (Rodentia, Muridae)

Paolo Colangelo, Herwig Leirs, Riccardo Castiglia, Margo D’aes… in Mammalian Biology (2010)