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Andrea Grill The red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, has declined dramatically in Europe during the last century. Nevertheless, phylogeographic data covering its entire distribution area, which provide the basis to identify the evolutionary significant units of this species and to establish an effective conservation strategy on a European scale, are still missing. Our project is directed [...]

The Scottish Squirrel Survey, funded by Scottish Natural Heritage, was established in March 2005 and is coordinated by Mel Tonkin, Scottish Squirrel Survey, c/o Scottish Wildlife Trust, Cramond House, Kirk Cramond, Cramond Glebe Road, Edinburgh EH4 6NS. It aims to set up a sustainable system of survey and monitoring of red and grey squirrels throughout [...]

Geoffrey Palmer and John Koprowski Ecology of Introduced Mexican Red-bellied Squirrels in Biscayne National Park and their impact on an Endangered Palm Two pairs of Mexican Red-bellied Squirrels (Sciurus aureogaster) were introduced to the 10 km2 Elliott Key in Biscayne National Park, Florida, USA about 70 years ago. The population expanded to the point where [...]

Nicolas Ramos and John Koprowski The conservation and ecology of Mearns’s Squirrel (Tamiasciurus mearnsi) in Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico The Mearns’s squirrel is an montane island endemic found in the highest regions of Baja California’s greatest mountain range at elevations around 3000 m. The species is considered to be threatened in Mexico [...]

John Koprowski Arizona gray squirrels (Sciurus arizonensis) were first described about 150 years ago, yet there has not been a single publication on the ecology of this species. Often considered to be uncommon in the mountain islands of the deserts of Arizona and extending slightly into northern Mexico where the species is considered to be [...]

Marleen Vermeulen, a biology student from Antwerp, Belgium, is working on this project under the supervision of Luc Wauters as part of the collaboration in alpine squirrel research between the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy and the Research Group of Animal Ecology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Amanda Lloyd Thesis abstract: Red and grey squirrel populations (Sciurus vulgaris and S. carolinensis respectively) and the influence of forest management were studied in Kielder forest, Northumberland and Creech forest, Hampshire between 1998 and 2001. The majority of the work was carried out in Kielder, an upland conifer plantation consisting primarily of Sitka spruce (Picea [...]

Elly Hamilton and Sue Hearn Launched in August 2000 and managed by the Southern Uplands Partnership, the Red Squirrels in South Scotland project covers the Borders and Dumfries & Galloway regions, and works in parallel to similar initiatives in the north of England. By presenting a united front covering south Scotland from coast to coast, [...]

Luc Wauters, Heidi Hauffe, Guido Tosi and Sandro Bertolino The Eurasian red squirrel has become extinct or very rare in those parts of its distribution range invaded by the introduced Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), which, in northern Italy, has reached the Prealpine forests. Red squirrels are still found throughout the extensive alpine conifer forests. [...]

Goedele Verbeylen Dispersal and population dynamics of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris L. 1758) in highly fragmented woodlands (Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Erik Matthysen, co-supervisor : Dr. Luc Wauters) Red squirrels are typical inhabitants of North and Central Europe’s large forests. In large parts of Western Europe though, their habitat is strongly fragmented. A central hypothesis [...]