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Responses of small mammal community to environmental pollution by emissions from a copper smelter

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Analysis 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.

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  1. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vos’mogo Marta 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia

    S. V. Mukhacheva, Yu. A. Davydova & I. A. Kshnyasev

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Mukhacheva, Yu.A. Davydova, I.A. Kshnyasev, 2010, published in Ekologiya, 2010, No. 6, pp. 452–458.

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Mukhacheva, S.V., Davydova, Y.A. & Kshnyasev, I.A. Responses of small mammal community to environmental pollution by emissions from a copper smelter. Russ J Ecol 41, 513–518 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413610060081

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