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Sciurus vulgaris (Eurasian red squirrel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Eurasia. The red squirrel is an arboreal, omnivorous rodent. In Great Britain, Italy and Ireland, numbers have decreased drastically in recent years. This decline is associated with the introduction by humans of the eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) from North America, In addition, habitat loss is a factor. Due to this, without conservation the species could disappear from those shores within a generation.
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Infraspecies

Sciurus vulgaris alpinus
Sciurus vulgaris altaicus
Sciurus vulgaris anadyrensis
Sciurus vulgaris arcticus
Sciurus vulgaris balcanicus
Sciurus vulgaris chiliensis
Sciurus vulgaris cinerea
Sciurus vulgaris dulkeiti
Sciurus vulgaris exalbidus
Sciurus vulgaris fedjushini
Sciurus vulgaris formosovi
Sciurus vulgaris fusconigricans
Sciurus vulgaris leucourus
Sciurus vulgaris lilaeus
Sciurus vulgaris mantchuricus
Sciurus vulgaris martensi
Sciurus vulgaris ognevi
Sciurus vulgaris orientis (Ezo squirrel)
Sciurus vulgaris rupestris
Sciurus vulgaris ukrainicus
Sciurus vulgaris varius
Sciurus vulgaris vulgaris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.03
EDGE Score: 1.61
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.323 lbs (600 g)
Birth Weight [1]  9 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  9 months 26 days
Male Maturity [1]  10 months 20 days
Gestation [1]  38 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  8 inches (21 cm)
Weaning [1]  62 days
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey No
Japan Japan No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Consumers

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External References

Citations

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♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Ecology of Commanster
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0