Landscapeecological differentiation of bird population in the mountaintaiga belt of the Putorana Plateau
Abstract
The ecological-geographical regularities of the spatial differentiation of bird population within the mountain-taiga altitudinal belt of the Putorana plateau are analyzed. The studies were carried out in 1988– 2018 in the northern, southern, western and eastern parts of the region. The survey was carried out as route accounting on transects of unlimited width at the elevations up to 1412 m above sea level. m. The maximum density of bird populations within the forest belt is in estuaries and floodplains of rivers and in the lower parts of mountain slopes; the forests on flat lakeside and river terraces are much sparsely populated. The population density is higher in the forests on the mountain slopes of southern exposure, covered with high-stemmed forests with dense undergrowth. The bird population density is sharply lower in the suppressed and thinned forests on the slopes of northern exposure. The mosaic distribution of many bird species within the Putorana plateau is supported by the mountain-and-basin topography of the area and the tendency of territorial pairs of a number of non-colonial species to form dispersed monospecific settlements. Poly-species territorial settlements consisting of 3 to 5 species of passerines are formed 3 times more often, which probably indicates more active colonization of mountain-subarctic landscapes by the whole communities of birds than by individual species. About 90% of all birds of the forest belt are concentrated in the lower part of the mountain-northern taiga belt. The altitudinal inversion of forest vegetation results in much more even distribution of birds. A number of species, usually nesting in the lower part of the forest belt, sometime form a second "upper echelon" of settlement in its upper part. The formation of the upper zone of settlement is due to the "forest edge effect" and the ecological adaptations of species, as well as the experience of "imprinting" mountain landscapes by young birds during the period of post-nesting vertical migrations.
Supporting agencies: Preparation of the article was financially supported by the Lomonosov MSU grant for the leading scientific schools of the MSU "Depository of living systems of the Moscow University" under the MSU Development Program.
About the Author
A. A. Romanov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography, Department of Biogeography, Professor, D.Sc. in Biology
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