The State of the Rodent Population in the Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Regions

Abstract

Field work on the accounting of the number of mouse-like rodents TOOK PLACE in July 2022 and in June 2023 for 40 days in the territories of the districts of Novosibirsk and Kemerovo. 6000 traps/days were worked out at 6 stationary sites, 175 copies were caught. mouse - like rodents of 11 species and 19 specimens. Borer Sorex sp. The red vole, along with the housekeeper vole, were everywhere dominant and subdominant in the rodent population. Lasiopodomys gregalis Pallas dominated the Kulunda steppe. The average number was found in dark, red, red-gray vole, field and small forest mouse. The baby mouse, the steppe mouse and the Barabinsky hamster were rarely taken into account. All detected species can have serious infectious and invasive significance, and are the main food source of natural distributors of the rabies virus.