10.24411/1728-323X-2018-16104

Physical geography and biogeography, soil geography and landscape geochemistry

SUMMER POPULATION OF BIRDS IN AREAS OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE WESTERN PART OF LENA RIVER PLATEAU

1. A. G. Larionov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Associate Professor, Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone under Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy for Sciences (IBPC SB RAS), Yakutsk State Agricultural Academy), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Yakutsk, Russia,
2. M. V. Vladimirtseva, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Researcher, Ilnstitute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone under Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy for Sciences (IBPC SB RAS), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Yakutsk, Russia

The study of the impact of the natural landscapes transformation on animal population in the result of the economic activity is relevant, and of a great practical importance. The aim of the study is the assessment of the bird population parameters in the conditions of industrial development in the western part of the Lena River Plateau, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

The basis for the paper preparation was the data collected by us during the field work carried out mostly in the second half of the summers (2005, 2009, 2014 and 2017) in the western part of the Lena River Plateau. The route count method was used to determine the species diversity and population density of birds. The report presents the data on the species composition and population density of birds in the main natural habitats and areas with anthropogenic landscape transformation in the western part of the Lena River Plateau. The combination of natural landscapes with the sites transformed as a result of economic activity at different stages of the succession

process provides a significant mosaic of biotopes. As a result, there is probably a greater species diversity and a higher population density of birds in the areas with industrial development in the western part of the Lena River Plateau than in the adjacent territories unaffected by human activities.

Yakutia, the Lena River Plateau, route bird counts, species diversity, bird population density, natural habitats, anthropogenic landscapes.

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