Spatial and typological heterogeneity of myomorphi rodent assemblage in the Altai Mountains (methodical and methodological aspects of the study)
Yu. S. Ravkin1, S. M. Tsybulin1, L. A. Khlyap2, S. V. Chesnokova1, I. N. Bogomolova1
1Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia 2Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: myomorpha rodents, ditches, fences, crushers, Altai, volume of surveys, survey time, environmental factors, cluster analysis, qualitative approximation
Abstract
In the article, based mainly on the materials collected by N. V. Tupikova and contributors of the Data Bank of the Zoological Monitoring Laboratory of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS from 1955 to 2014, some methodical and methodological problems are solved, in particular, the research result dependence: 1. on the method of collecting material with crushers - route, one-time or stationary (with three repetitions every two weeks from mid-July to the end of August). 2. on the interpreter, volume and standardization of data during collection. 3. on the joint use of data collected with crushers and ditches, after recalculation per 1 km2. This article is dedicated to these problems.
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