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For the first time, continuous studies on the population structure of rodents and insectivores in three altitudinal belts on the eastern macroslope of the Northern Urals have been performed over several years in the Denezhkin Kamen’ Nature Reserve. The results show the mountain tundra communities are depleted, the small mammal populations of zonal habitats are similar to each other, and river valleys and sparse forests of the subalpine belt play a leading role in supporting the maximum species diversity of small mammals.
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Original Russian Text © V.Yu. Dubrovskii, L.V. Simakin, 2013, published in Ekologiya, 2013, No. 2, pp. 140–145.
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Dubrovskii, V.Y., Simakin, L.V. New data on the population structure of small mammals in the Denezhkin Kamen’ Nature Reserve. Russ J Ecol 44, 158–163 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413613010049
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