Abstract
Characteristics of the bat (Chiroptera) population in Protected Areas in the northern and middle taiga subzones of European Russia
Highlights
In contrast to the majority of West European countries, European Russia spans a wide spectrum of vegetation zones from north to south, the forest zone being the most extensive one
E. nilssonii is absent from more southern parts of the forest zone, or its relative abundance there is minimal, while the dominant faunal elements are Myotis daubentonii (Darwin state nature reserves (SNR)), N. noctula (Smolenskoye Poozerye national parks (NP), Oksky SNR and Bryansky Les SNR) and Pipistrellus nathusii (Prioksko-Terrasny SNR)
In contrary to our previous assumptions, Nyctalus noctula and Vespertilio murinus have been regularly recorded by ultrasound detection in both northern and middle taiga, which is a new finding
Summary
In contrast to the majority of West European countries, European Russia spans a wide spectrum of vegetation zones from north to south, the forest zone being the most extensive one All of this area, from the northern taiga in the Kola Peninsula to nemoral forests of Central Russia, is highly attractive for bats (Strelkov & Ilyin, 1990). The European bat fauna gets poorer from the south to the north of the continent, so that eventually only the northern bats live and breed above the Arctic Circle (Rydell et al, 1994) It enjoys some advantages over other species, including physiologicalbiochemical parameters, high resistance to negative temperatures, and a high ecological valence at hibernacula (Belkin et al, 2019a)
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