DYNAMICS OF REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY INVESTIGATION OF RARE MAMMALS OF TAIGA EURASIA (CASE STUDY OF FLYING SQUIRREL PTEROMYS VOLANS, RODENTIA, PTEROMYIDAE)
Journal Title: Nature Conservation Research. Заповедная наука - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
This study of the spatial distribution and ecology of the flying squirrel during the turn of the 20th century provides a description of new methods and techniques for detecting and accounting flying squirrels in the forest zone of Eurasia. The flying squirrel population area covers the territory of 61 regions of Russia, including Kamchatsky Krai and Chukotka Autonomous District. The number of flying squirrels in Karelia especially to the east – in the Arkhangelsk region and Western Siberia – significantly exceeds that of Finland, but considerable spatial variability in the number is obvious through all the regions: there are areas where this animal is quite abundant, or inhabits all the territory rather evenly, and there are areas where it is completely absent in vast territories even with seemingly favourable conditions. The flying squirrel is quite difficult to study and the reasons of its absence in obviously favourable areas are still to be explained. Some reasons are: the specificity of favourable landscape, forest coverage pattern, trophic relationships with predators and genetic aspect. A number of hypotheses are supposed to be tested in the nearest future.
Authors and Affiliations
Juri P. Kurhinen, Vladimir N. Bolshakov, Svetlana N. Bondarchuk, Elena V. Vargot, Sergey N. Gashev, Elena A. Gorbunova, Evgeniy S. Zadiraka, Ernest V. Ivanter, Sergey K. Kochanov, Viktor N. Mamontov, Artur V. Meydus, Evgenia A. Muravskaya, Dmitriy S. Nizovtsev, Tatyana E. Pavlyushchik, Valdis Pilats, Andrey V. Sivkov, Natalja S. Sikkilya, Leonid V. Simakin, Evgeniy N. Smirnov, Uudo Timm, Ilpo K. Hanski
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- DOI 10.24189/ncr.2016.030
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