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Lysenko, V. 2020. Why the steppe marmot (Marmota bobak) should not be included into the Red Book of Ukraine. Novitates Theriologicae, Pars 11: 196–198. http://doi.org/10.53452/nt1132

title

Why the steppe marmot (Marmota bobak) should not be included into the Red Book of Ukraine

author(s)

Valeriy Lysenko (Melitopol Institute of Ecology and Social Technologies, Melitopol)
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3453-1331

abstract

Suitable lands for the steppe marmot are dry meadows and clear beams (without woody vegeta-tion), which make up to 20 % of the territory of the steppe forest-hunting zone. Suitable lands for this species are large enough in area. It was found that with the excess of the optimal number, the intensity of reproduction of the species decreases, some animals move to less-suitable or even un-suitable lands causing increased animal mortality. Re-acclimatization of the species is carried out mainly by game husbandries, which have released more than 2330 individuals since 1991. The in-clusion of the steppe marmot into the Red Book of Ukraine will destroy the possibilities of re-acclimatization.

language

Ukrainian, with English summary

references

Tokarsky, V. A., V. I. Ronkin, G. A. Savchenko. 2011. European steppe marmot: history and moder-nity. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, 1–256. (In Russian)
Volokh, A. M. 2014. Game mammals of the steppe Ukraine: Monograph. FLP Grin D.S., Kherson, 1–412. (In Russian)

date

online: 28.08.2020 print: 31.12.2020