Over the last decades, profound changes in agricultural practices in the world have led to
modifications of land-use as well as landscape structure and composition. Major changes
resulted in enlargement of parcel size, increase of cultivated areas and drastic reduction of
permanent elements such as woods, hedges or natural meadows. In this context we chose
to investigate the composition and structure of small mammal communities in the hedgerow
networks of three landscape units of Western France (Brittany) differing by their level of …