Agricultural Activity and Livestock Farming as the Key Factors of Number Fluctuations of European Subspecies of the Steppe Marmot

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English Abstract

Dynamic of the steppe marmot (Marmota bobak (Müller, 1776); Rodentia, Sciuridae) number in Velikoburluk district (Kharkov region) during XX century has been traced. The process of progressive increasing of pasturable pressure of live-stock on potential habitats of the steppe marmot has been represented. It is recognized, that this process has caused the restoration of pasturable ecosystems, one of the basic components is the steppe marmot. On the Velikoburluk (Kharkov) steppe marmot population the key role of the anthropogenous factor in dynamics of number fluctuation of Marmota bobak has been shown.

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Title (non-english): Сельскохозяйственная деятельность человека как ключевой фактор колебания численности европейского подвида степного сурка
Country: Russia
Language: Russian
Year: 2008
Study Design: After
Authors: Tokarsky, VA//Ronkin, VI//Savchenko, GA
Journal: Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists, biological series
Volume: 113
Issue: 1
Pages: 48-53
City/state or province/country: Kharkiv Oblast (Province)