Modern distribution of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) in Ukraine

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Rusin M (2022): Modern distribution of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) in Ukraine. v1.1. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=sousliksukraine2022&v=1.1

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e27b9bd0-74f3-4431-ae5f-da6f0e6e9784.  Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; European ground squirrel; active burrow; Observation

Contacts

Mikhail Rusin

• Metadata Provider ●
• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Principal Investigator

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine | Kyiv Zoo

Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15

01030 Kyiv

UA

ellobius.talpinus@gmail.com

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mikhail-Rusin

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4349-4795

Oleksii Marushchak

• Programmer

junior researcher

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine

Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15

01030 Kyiv

UA

ecopelobates@gmail.com

+380964882670

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9380-5593

Geographic Coverage

Southern Vinnytsia and Eastern Chernivtsi provinces of Ukraine.

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset consists of records of European sousliks (Spermophilus citellus).

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

No Description available

The personnel involved in the project:

Mikhail Rusin

• Programmer

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4349-4795

Sampling Methods

The mapping of European ground squirrels (EGS) was performed by pedestrian examination of potential habitats (pastrures) in the areas were EGS have been previously reported. From two to five pedestrians were involved in the burrow census. Distance from each observer was 5-20 m on the areas with no souslik presence informatiom. Whenever we record any burrow (either active or inactive), we applied more tight formation with distance 3-5 m between obervers. Each burrow was geotagged in the field using hand-held GPS Garmin eTrex30x with accuracy app. 3 m. Only visually active burrows were geotagged, e.g. those having signs of EGS regular visiting the burrow (feces of EGS, open entrance with no mud inside, no spider webs etc.). The only exception was on colony Bernovo2, where we had no access to GPS device, but geotagged some burrows using mobile phone. To separate EGS from close species (Spermophilus suslicus), either photographing of sousliks or live-trapping has been performed on most colonies.

Method step description:

1. Conducting of field trips and visual identification of the animals or signs of their presence.
2. Georeferencing.
3. Organizing of dataset according to Darwin Core standards.

Additional Metadata