Rodent assemblages have ecological importance in ecosystem functioning and protected area management. Our study examines the patterns of assemblages of rodents across four habitat types (i.e., Miombo woodland, Acacia woodland, grasslands and farmlands) in the savanna environment. Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods were applied for data collection across the Chembe Bird Sanctuary (CBS) landscape. The Non-metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling (NMDS) was used for exploratory data analysis, followed by Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey–Kramer’s Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) post-hoc tests. The rodent assemblages in CBS significantly differed between the non-farmlands (i.e., Miombo woodland, Acacia woodland and grasslands) and farmlands. There were: (1) zero rodent diversity in farmlands, dominated completely by a pest species, M. natalensis; and (2) different rodent assemblages in three non-farmland habitat types. We suggest that rodent assemblages should be mediated by conservation planning and multi-stakeholder collaboration beyond the protected area boundaries to contribute to a working CBS landscape positively.

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赞比西亚生物区生境类型马赛克中的啮齿动物组合

啮齿类动物在生态系统功能和保护区管理中具有生态重要性。我们的研究检查了热带稀树草原环境中四种生境类型（即Miombo林地，Acacia林地，草地和农田）中啮齿动物的聚集模式。捕获标记捕获（CMR）方法应用于整个Chembe鸟类保护区（CBS）的数据收集。使用非度量多维标度（NMDS）进行探索性数据分析，然后使用方差分析（ANOVA）和Tukey–Kramer的诚实显着差异（HSD）事后检验。在非农田（即，Miombo林地，相思林和草地）和农田之间，CBS中的啮齿动物组合明显不同。有：（1）农田中的零啮齿动物多样性完全由害虫物种主导，中号。那他尔; （2）在三种非农田生境类型中的不同啮齿动物组合。我们建议，应通过保护区划和保护区边界以外的多方利益相关者之间的协作来协调啮齿动物的聚集，从而为CBS的正常工作做出积极贡献。