abstract |
Information
on the former and current distribution of the Siberian
flying squirrel on the plains of Eastern Europe
was analysed, with special attention to the south-western
segment of the species range, which in ancient times
entered the territory of Ukraine (in the sense of
its modern borders). The study, as a starting point
of analysis, is based on the reports of researchers
of the 18th and 19th centuries (mainly J. Guldenstedt
and D. Bagaliy), repeated in a number of later publications,
about the findings of the species in Sumy Oblast
and its probably wider distribution in Polissia,
in the Forest Steppe, or even in Podillia. Detailed
descriptions of all former and modern records of
the species with a cadastre of locations are given.
This cadastre covers the entire south-western segment
of the area, including the Dnipro and Volga basins.
Information on finds of the species in the region
is summarized in two sets of data, before and after
1960; they are all marked on the respective maps.
The points of finds of the species are unevenly
distributed, which may indicate unequal availability
of data from different regions. However, the author
believes that such unevenness is related to the
peculiarities of the distribu-tion of the species,
since the absence of the species was shown for some
of the locations in the data-absence zones, despite
its detailed searches, and the dynamics of distribution
limits were shown for some places. The south-western
segment of the range of the flying squirrel can
be described as a continuous wedge, in which the
south-western border runs through the territory
of Belarus along its north-eastern borders and the
corresponding parts of neighbouring countries, through
Polotsk, Baran, further along the border from the
Russian Federation to Trubchevsk and further to
the Bryansk Forest reserve, which is the southernmost
location of the species. The eastern border of this
segment goes to the Volga, reaching it in the area
of Nizhny Novgorod, however, data indicate a large
winding of the range boundary in this part to the
north, to Safonovo, Rzhev, Mozhaisk, Obninsk, Pushchino
and further to Ryazan. In Pushchino, the species
is listed as an introducer. This loop of geographic
range may indicate the isolated status of the western
segment, from Berezina in the west to Desna in the
east. It is assumed that this area of the range
was formed as a result of the recent (15–18 centuries)
expansion of the distribution limits of the species
and their new reduction over the last 100 years
(19–20 centuries), with a rate of reduction of about
100–160 km per century. There is a high the
probability of finding the species in the north-east
of Ukraine. |
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