title

Monitoring of small mammal fauna of the Kharkiv region: totals of 20-year cycle of observation

author(s)

Oleksandr Zorya

affiliation

Kharkov Regional Sanitary-Epidemiological Station (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

bibliography

Proceedings of the Theriological School. 2010. Vol. 10: 65–72.

DOI

language

Ukrainian, with English summary, titles of tables, captures to figs

abstract

It has been registered eighteen species of rodents and five species of shrew during the twenty years of observation. Sylvaemus uralensis, Myodes glareolus, Apodemus agrarius dominated in various years. The maximum of species were registered in the flood plains- up to sixteen, the minimum of species were registered in the buildings — up to four. Up to seven species have been observed in the forest lines. At the same time in the forests, fields and haystacks have been observed up to eleven species. The indexes of quantity have always made four or five the most mass dominant and subdominant species. Variation of quantity had a view both “small” and “big” waves. Five rises of quantity have been registered during the observation period, the trend hasn’t been observed.

keywords

small mammals, quantity, dominating, sub dominating, biotopes.

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