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CURRENT STATUS AND LONG-TERM DYNAMICS OF THE MAMMALIAN FAUNA OF THE ORENBURG REGION

Section

Ecology

Title

CURRENT STATUS AND LONG-TERM DYNAMICS OF THE MAMMALIAN FAUNA OF THE ORENBURG REGION

Сontributors

A. V. Davygora, Associate Professor of Zoology and physiology, human and animal, Orenburg State Pedagogical University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

E. E. Ellina, Associate Professor of General biology, ecology, and methods of teaching biology, Orenburg State Pedagogical University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,

E.A. Leneva, Associate Professor of Zoology and physiology, human and animal, Orenburg State Pedagogical University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

The taxonomic composition of the mammal fauna of the Orenburg Region, registered during the whole period of the regional theriological research, was identified. So for two and a half centuries in the Orenburg Region 93 species of mammals belonging to 7 orders, 21 families, 59 genera are identified. Over the last century, 17 new species have replenished the list of the mammalian fauna of the Orenburg Region. Four of them are the “product” of acclimatization activities, three are identified as a result of taxonomic revisions, three more are found as a result of more thorough studies of the fauna, and seven new species have appeared as a result of natural settlement processes. The probabilistic prediction of this century’s critical changes in the mammalian fauna of the Orenburg Region was made and a list of species which are most vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic transformation of the environment was compiled.

Keywords

mammals, species composition, dynamics of the mammalian fauna, the Orenburg Region.

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