Grass snake populations’ features of the forest biogeocoenoses in the Samara river area Cover Image

Характеристика популяцій звичайного вужа лісових біогеоценозів присамар’я
Grass snake populations’ features of the forest biogeocoenoses in the Samara river area

Author(s): V. Y. Gasso
Subject(s): Political Ecology
Published by: Дніпропетровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара
Keywords: Samara River area; forest ecosystems; Grass snake populations;

Summary/Abstract: Results of 7-years research of the grass snake population in forest ecosystems of the Samara River area (Dnipropetrovsk province, Ukraine) are presented. The population is of high abundance but have a tendency to decrease. Population’s sex ratio, spatial structure, snakes’ morphometric parameters and pholidosis are described. Those characteristics reflect the population specificity, which was formed by microevolutional processes.

  • Issue Year: 19/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 136-142
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Ukrainian