Structure of Small Mammal Communities
in Moscow Parks and Public Gardens

G. N. Tikhonova, I. A. Tikhonov, A. V. Surov, and P. L. Bogomolov

Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences,

Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia;

e-mail: tikh@biostation.chg.ru

Received September 10, 2007

Abstract—Data collected between 1987 and 2002 have been used to analyze the structure of small mammal
communities in parks and public gardens of the city of Moscow. With regard to several ecological parameters,
four categories of parks markedly differing in biotopic conditions have been distinguished. The least stable zoo-
cenoses are formed in deteriorating parks. More favorable ecological conditions exist in public gardens and reg-
ular parks, where not only synanthropic but also hemisynanthropic rodents can be found. The fauna of small
mammals in landscape parks is similar to that in forest cenoses, but this fauna in park forests better complies
with the concept of forest community.

DOI: 10.1134/S1067413609030114

Key words: small mammals, species diversity, abundance, ecology, urbanized areas.

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