Brusentsova, N. The badger (Meles sp.) in museum
collections of Ukraine: analysis of label data using GIS.
Theriologia Ukrainica. 2019. Vol. 17:
3-7.
title |
The badger
(Meles sp.) in museum collections of Ukraine: analysis
of label data using GIS |
author(s) |
Brusentsova, N. |
affiliation |
Slobozhanskyi National
Nature Park (Krasnokutsk, Ukraine) |
bibliography |
Theriologia Ukrainica.
2019. Vol. 17: 3-7. |
DOI |
http://doi.org/10.15407/pts2019.17.003 |
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language |
Ukrainian, with English summary, titles of tables, captures to figs, and references |
abstract |
Labels
information of 144 badger samples from 9 museums
of Ukraine has been study. Their georeferencing
was carried out and the thematic database of geodata
was created. The database contains 108 badger samples
from Ukraine, 23 samples from other countries, 13
samples without labels. The largest number of badger
samples is stored in the National Museum of Natural
History NAS of Ukraine, and the smallest in Zoological
Museums of the Dnipro National University and Yuri
Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. In the
natural history collections of the Zoological Museum
of the A. S. Makarenko Sumy Pedagogical State University
badger is absent. The largest number of samples
was collected in the Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Luhansk,
Kharkiv regions and Crimea. Materials from the Volyn,
Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad,
Kherson regions were not found in the collections
of the studied museums. Examples of regional museums
are mostly collected within the nearest regions.
The collection of the National Museum of Natural
History NAS of Ukraine has a wide geography of the
collected materials. Due to the fact that the Meles
meles with wide range has been divided into
four species (M. meles, M. leucurus, M. anacuma,
M. canescens), it is expedient to redefine
museum samples from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia,
central and eastern parts of Russia, Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Over time, the largest
number of samples was collected during the period
1940–1970 (n = 34). The smallest samples fell into
the museum funds in 1970–2000, when the European
badger was listed in the Red Book. Findings of badgers
in a large area of Odesa and Luhansk regions after
1990 show that this species is common here at now.
A generalized sample of badger specimens and its
analysis using GIS allowed to evaluate the species
within the entire country both in space and in time,
with a small number of samples in each separate
museum.
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keywords |
Meles, badger, museum
data, natural history collection, GIS, georeferencing |
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