The history of formation of recent small mammal communities in the Nether-Polar Urals Kryazheva, I. V.; Ponomarev, D. V.; van Kolfschoten, T.; van der Plicht, Johannes Published in: Russian Journal of Ecology DOI: 10.1134/S1067413612050098IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below.
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454Small mammals are traditionally among the most popular objects for paleofaunistic reconstructions used to address various aspects of problems in paleo faunistics and paleoecology. The Urals are also used as a proving ground for such research. These mountains extend for a long distance in a submeridional direc tion, which provides the possibility to study character istic features of various living systems in a latitudinal gradient of environmental factors (Smirnov, 2001(Smirnov, , 2004. In the Ural foothills, where Paleozoic karst forming rocks are well developed, late Quaternary ver tebrate fossils were found to be accumulated in karst cavities (caves) as a result of life activities of predators and humans. These fossils in cave type sites occur in especially large amounts, compared to findspots in alluvial or paleosol deposits and archaeological sites, and, as a rule, their assemblage most closely reflect the species composition of the initial natural community. Among all regions of the Ural Mountains, the Nether Polar Urals is the least studied with respect to its Qua ternary fauna of small mammals, even as compared with the Polar Urals (Golovachov and Smirnov, 2009) and Northern Urals (Smirnov, 1996;Kochev, 1993) bordering this region on the north and south, respec tively. In ...