Home – Home – Jornals – Contemporary Problems of Ecology 2004 number 4

On the basis of long-term investigations, a middle-scale map (1 : 1 000 000) of the bird population was compiled, encompassing not only the Russian but also the Kazakh part of the Altay mountainous region. Illustrating the main regularities and provincial specific features of the spatial differentiation of the bird population during the first half of summer, at the same time the map provides also another kind of information which cannot be depicted visually by other means: the geographical position of bird communities of different taxonomic rank, the general character of their allocation, the area of territory occupied, etc.