Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Montane grasslands and shrublands
Central latitude: 48.833310
Central longitude: 85.773180
Duration: 4 years, from 1980 to 1983

87 records

35 distinct species

Across the time series Carduelis caniceps is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

With a relatively well-studied synanthropic type of the bird population of the Altai and other regions of Siberia (Malkov, Ravkin 1985; mil-ing in 1973; Ravkin 1973, 1984; Ravkin, Lukyanova 1976 Tsybulin 1999, Shcherbakov, 1986, 1996) species of birds Southern Altai settlements remained studied only in the most general terms. In 1978-1986 gg. in Markakolsky Reserve held stationary author of a study that examined the bird population structure of settlements and other elements of anthropogenic (cultural) landscape. Markakol Basin (area 1180 km2) is located in the Southern part of the Altai gornota?zhnoy limited ranges Kurchum, Azutau and Sorvenkovskim protein (2507-3 303 m asl). At its center is the largest lake Altai Markakol (455 km2). Lakeside Coast take forb and shrub meadows, kochkarnikovye marshes, wetlands and spruce and birch, willow and poplar flood plains of rivers, settlements. On the slopes of the ridges extends belt larch and fir-larch taiga (1500-2000 m asl), and watersheds occupied by subalpine and alpine meadows, dwarf birch, moss, lichen, moss-gravelly tundra and loach (Berezovikov 1989; Berezovikov etc. . 1990). In Lutova-steppe zone on the coast of Lake Markakol (1450-1500 m asl) currently has four settlements Siberian type: Urunhayka, Matabay, Upper and Lower Elovka River, emerged here in the first decade of the XX century. All of them are in the 50-200 m from the lake, in the open spaces of the meadow at the foot of the mountains, as a rule, on the outskirts of larch and spruce. For villages an almost complete absence of gardens, except for small groups of birch, poplar, willow bushes and bird cherry. Large areas occupied by kitchen gardens. All villages except Urunhayki have a semi-abandoned appearance; most of the houses and outbuildings in them in the 1970-1980-s were empty. Houses and farm outbuildings felled larch with t?sovymi roofs, stockyards, usually with a twig-thatched roofs. The first brick houses were built only in the years 1978-1980 in Urunhayke., But not widespread. Between the houses, in the former gardens and on vacant lots, there are extensive thickets nettle, hemp, burdock, goosefoot and sorrel. To the outskirts of the villages typically the presence of meadows, pastures with low herbaceous cover and clumps of bushes (spiraea, honeysuckle, wild rose). Through villages, one or two runs of the river or stream, like a flooded willow thickets (Urunhayka, Lower Elovka) and devoid of them. All this gives the settlements of the original shape, distinguishing them from the surrounding lanshaft, and it is characteristic of a particular, well-established in the 20th century, the species and quantity of birds. Unit of abundance = IndCountInt, Unit of biomass = NA.

Citation(s)

Berezovikov, N.N. (2004) The birds of settlements in Markakol Depression (Southern Altai). Russian Ornithological Journal, 249, 3-15.