Biogeocenotic characteristics of the badger (Meles meles L.) Information field in the forests of the Ukraine steppe zone

Î. Ìikheyev

Oles Honchar National University of Dnipropetrovsk
Gagarin Ave., 72, Dnipropetrovsk 49010, Ukraine
zestforest@ua.fm

Article is devoted to the characteristics of a badger signs (observed as an information field (IF) of species level) in different types of forest biogeocenoses of the Ukraine steppe zone. Under these conditions the given species is capable to develop almost whole range of natural and cultural forests. On the basis of statistics (IF signal loading, relative allocation of signs, correspondence analysis of the factor and the phenomenon graduations) in IF structure dominate bayrak and flood-land oak forests, and also some types of arenous forests. About them delivered realization of different forms of an animal living functions (including the arrangement of complicated setts), that promotes formation of peculiar biogeocenotic structure of their IF.


Keywords: signs, informational processes, behavior, mammals, forest biogeocenosis


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