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- Title
Responses of small mammal community to environmental pollution by emissions from a copper smelter.
- Authors
Mukhacheva, S.; Davydova, Yu.; Kshnyasev, I.
- Abstract
nalysis of the effect of emissions from the Karabash Copper Smelter (Southern Urals) on the small mammal community has shown that its abundance and structure change significantly under technogenic impact. Structural transformations are accompanied by changes in the composition of dominant species. The 'dose-effect' pattern of community response to this impact is nonlinear: for most species of murine rodents and small insectivores, habitat quality becomes satisfactory at a distance of 9-11 km from the emission plume.
- Subjects
CONDITIONED response; MAMMALS; BIOTIC communities; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of pollution; COPPER poisoning; EMISSIONS (Air pollution); INDUSTRIAL pollution; POPULATION dynamics
- Publication
Russian Journal of Ecology, 2010, Vol 41, Issue 6, p513
- ISSN
1067-4136
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1067413610060081