Proceedings of the National museum natural history of Ukraine №10 - 2012
Abstract
I. V. Zagorodniuk, I. G. Emelyanov
Taras Shevchenko Luhansk National University,
National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine
Taxonomy and nomenclature of mammals of Ukraine
Totals of taxonomic revision of mammals known for the last two decades in Ukraine are summarized. Data on the records of species known in natural and transformed locations and habitats over the past three centuries is revised. The full list of taxa is composed by their main ranks: order, family, genus, and species. All the taxa are specified by authors, years of description and Ukrainian registered names, all taxonomical lists accompanied by commentary on major changes in the lists since the checklist of 1999; each species indexed according to its status (extinct, alien, phantom, etc.). Overall, fauna of Ukraine (on the basis of the data for the last three centuries) consists of: 152 species of 87 genera 35 families, inc. 22 alien species (7 domesticated), 14 extinct in historical times, and 5 phantom. Basic reconstructed list includes 127 species (without phantom and alien); the current list includes 133 species (without phantom and extinct); index of fauna rotation is 14.2 % species for the last three centuries.
Keywords: taxonomy, nomenclature, mammals, fauna of Ukraine.
A. S. Vlaschenko
Interdepartmental research laboratory “Study of biodiversity and development of nature reserve management” (Biology Research Institute of Kharkov National University, NNP “Gomolshanskie lessy”), Svobody sq. 4, Kharkov, 61077, Ukraine, vlaschenko@yandex.ru
Results of Bat (Chiroptera) Ringing on the Territory of Kharkov Region (2002–2012)
On the territory of Kharkov from 2002 to 2011 region 6935 individuals of 12 bat species (M. daubentonii, M. dasycneme, M. brandtii, M. nattereri, N. noctula, N. leisleri E. serotinus P. pipistrellus/pygmaeus, P. nathusii, P. kuhlii, V. murinus and Pl. auritus) were ringed. The ringing were done mainly on the locations of long-term bat research work: National Nature Park “Gomolshanskie lessy” (Zmiev district) (n = 2239), Liptsy mines (Kharkov district) (n = 421), Kharkov city (n = 2590) and abandoned open pit (Izum district) (n = 848). Four different bird-ring sizes and five special bat-ring sizes were used. 299 individuals of all banded species were recaptured. The overwhelming majority of recaptureis were done in the same location of ringing (up to 2 km), only one distant recapture — 16 km for M. daubentonii. The maximal ages: M. daubentonii — 5 years and 8 months, N. noctula — 5 years, E. serotinus — 4 years and 10 months. Resident winter aggregation of N. noctula (species in past – long-distant migrant) has formed in the Kharkov city area. N. noctula comes to the area in the middle-end of August and comes out in the end of March and the beginning of April. We estimated the injury by rings of different sizes. We can confirm that a little percent of injuring bats could be with using species bat-rings also.
Keywords: bats, ringing, recaptures, Kharkov region.
V. O. Tsjupka
National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine
Squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris L.(Rodentia, Sciuridae) in Ukraine (Modern State of the Population, the Problems Intraspecific Structure). Message 1
The area of Sciurus vulgaris L.in Ukraine during the last century acquired a pronounced mosaic character. Its southern boundary is shifted considerably to the north. In the south and east of the country formed numerically small local populations. The population in plains area was reduced in 10–15 times. After the rapid growth of squirrel in the Crimea, in the first 2–3 ages decades after its introduction, the population was on the verge of extinction. Depression acclimatization persists to this day. The total number of modern populations of squirrel common in Ukraine is 50–55 thousand. Intraspecific systematics of this species requires special study.
Key words:squirrel, distribution, acclimatization, number, area, boundaries, taxonomy, subspecies.
L. I. Krytsjka, V. V. Novosad
National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine
Geographic structure of flora Kodymo-Elanetsky Bug region (native fraction)
The results of geographic analysis of native flora fraction of Kodymo-Elanetsky Bug region are given in the article. It is found that in the present geographical distribution the species diversity of native flora fraction allocated in 11 types and 66 groups of areas. In the geographic range of flora the leading position is occupied by Eurasian steppe (158), Palearctic (128), Eurasian (120) types of habitats. In the article the analysis of all types and groups of areas and the geographic range of flora are given. Based on the study of the geographical structure the presence of the autochthonous Pontian flora core, including endemic and sub-endemic species was established. Its wide geographical connection with the flora of the Eurasian steppe and the Afro-Asian desert regions, the Mediterranean and the ancient Mediterranean, especially the North-Western Black Sea, Azov Sea, the Lower Dnieper, the Crimea, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Asian Near East has been shown.
Keywords: regional flora, geographic analysis of flora, geographic spectrum of flora, areas of species, type, group area, the geographic range of flora botanical-geographical zoning, floristic zonation, Kodymo-Elanetsky Bug region.
L. V. Popova
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, faculty of Geology
Northern Ukraine: Faunistical Evidences of the Pleistocene Glaciations
Ground squirrels Spermophilus severskensis from the Novgorod-Seversky locality had acquired original trophic adaptations, which advanced him under conditions of periglacial ecosystems, but doomed him to extinction in the beginning of the Holocene.
Keywords: geological heritage, Novgorod-Seversky ground squirrel, teeth system, adaptations to the periglacial conditions
V. V. Manyuk
Dnipropetrovsk national university by Oles Gonchar,
49066, Dnipropetrovsk, K. Marx, 36
“Kamjana Mogyla” in Ukraine: geological and archaeological heritage of world significance
The mound of quartz sandstone blocks “Stone Grave” with world renowned rock paintings and drawings (petroglyphs) was included in the geological heritage sites during the audit examination of geological natural monuments in Zaporozhye region. The origin of this unique monument of nature and archeology (as sandstone blocks and the hill itself) is considered.
Keywords: Geological monument, petrogliph, geological heritage, sandstone, Kamjana Mogyla, palaeolith, genesis.
O. Ogienko1, L. Popova1, S. Ryzhov2
1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, faculty of Geology
2 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, faculty of History
Rock shelters beneath mesas and problems of Crimea cave Palaeolithic dating
New findings of rock shelters settled by Paleolithic human have been considered from the point of view of the problems of Crimean Palaeolithic cave dating.
Keywords: Crimea, cuesta, cave Palaeolithic sites, dating
D. V. Kepin1, T. V. Krakhmalnaya2
1 Centre of Protection and Investigation of Monuments of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
and Ukranian Society of Protection of the Historical and Cultural Monuments
2 National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine
Conceptional approaches to the сreation of the аrchaedrom“Cave Paleolith of Ukraine”
The problems of the open-air museums’ classification and methodological approaches of the “archaeodroms’” creation, devoted to the speleoarchaeology’ achievements in the Paleolithic monuments’ study on the territory of Ukraine are considered.
It has been noted the necessity of the Legal standing (status) for new museum complexes in the open air, as “archeoparks”, “geoparks” and their varieties.
Keywords: Paleolith, karst, reservation, “archeopark”, “archaeodrom”, geopark.
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