The article presents the results of the analysis of the Carabid fauna of three cities: Grozny, Kemerovo, Kazan. It was established that communities of ground beetles clearly respond to varying degrees of recreation by changing the biotopic distribution and ecological structure: the emergence of super dominant species, a decrease in the abundance of zoophages, an increase in the share of stratobionts, and the presence of indicator species.

The article provides a brief overview of the historical stages of the development of geographic information systems and describes the experience of their use in ecological and faunistic studies. The examples of using GIS for the ecological, geographical and spatial analysis of different groups of animals are given in this work.