Dynamics of regional distribution and ecology investigation of rare mammals of taiga Eurasia (case study of flying squirrel Pteromys volans, Rodentia, Pteromyidae)

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука

Vladimir N. Bolshakov¹  Elena V. Kulebyakina²  Evgeniy S. Zadiraka³  Elena A. Gorbunova⁴  Sergey K. Kochanov⁵  Valdis Pilats⁶  Artur V. Meydus⁷  Svetlana N. Bondarchuk⁸  Uudo Timm⁹  Tatyana E. Pavlyushchik^1,10  Sergey N. Gashev^1,11  Leonid V. Simakin^1,12  Ilpo K. Hanski^1,13  Viktor N. Mamontov^1,14  Evgeniy N. Smirnov^1,15  Natalja S. Sikkilya^1,16  Elena V. Vargot^1,17  Andrey V. Sivkov^1,18  Ernest V. Ivanter^1,18  Juri P. Kurhinen^1,19  Dmitriy S. Nizovtsev^2,20  Evgenia A. Muravskaya^2,20 

[1] Forest Research Institute of the Karelian Research Centre of RAS;Independent Researcher, Russia, Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk;National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University;National park «Smolny»;Altaisky State Nature Biosphere Reserve;Independent Researcher, Russia, Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk;Institute of Biology of the Komi Science Centre Ural Branch of RAS;Institute of ecology of plants and animals Ural Branch of RAS;Kostomukshsky State Nature Reserve;Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University;Mordovia State Nature Reserve named after P. G. Smidovich;Nature Conservation Agency of Latvia;Pechora-Ilych State Nature Biosphere Reserve;Petrozavodsk State University;Pinega State Nature Reserve;Scientific-Practical Center of Biological Resources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus;Sikhote-Alin State Nature Biosphere Reserve;Tymen State University;University of Helsinki;Vodlozersky National Park;

关键词: accounting;    flying squirrel;    forest zone;    home range;    spatial distribution;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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