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Distribution of the Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus L.) and the American Mink (Neovison vison Schreber) in Yakutia (Northeast Asia, Russia)

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This paper discusses the results of the introduction of the muskrat and American mink in Yakutia (Russia). The time course of harvesting of muskrat skins during an 81-year period (1941–2021) is also analyzed. A map of quantitative distribution of muskrats in Yakutia was constructed on the basis of the harvesting data. The work on muskrat introduction was described within the framework of hunting activities of the unitary enterprise Sakhabult Financial Agro-Industrial Concern in 2002–2004, when 710 muskrats were resettled in the republic, including 60 animals brought from Altai krai. Data on the abundance and occurrence of the American mink in Yakutia are provided, and the modern geographic range of this animal is outlined. Information about the introduction of 337 American minks in 1985–1986 by the Ust-Mayskiy State Hunting/Fishery Enterprise in the basins of the rivers Maya and Khamna rivers is given.

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The research was carried out within the framework of the project part of the state assignment in the field of scientific activity of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on the topic FSRG-2020-0019 “Bio- and Chemodiversity of Ecosystems, Evolution and Genetic Features of Bioindicators in Eastern Siberia and the Development of Technologies for the Development of Renewable Plant Resources,” 2020–2022, and “Structure and Dynamics of Animal Populations and Communities in the Cold Region of the Northeast of Russia in the Current Conditions of Global Climate Change and Anthropogenic Transformation of Northern Ecosystems: Factors, Mechanisms, Adaptations, Conservation” (state registration number AAAA-A17-117020110058-4).

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  1. Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 677007, Yakutsk, Russia

    E. S. Zakharov

  2. Ministry of Ecology, Nature Management, and Forestry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 677000, Yakutsk, Russia

    N. N. Smetanin

  3. Union of Hunting Companies and Hunter Sole Proprietors of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 677000, Yakutsk, Russia

    I. A. Sidorov

  4. Arctic State Agrotechnological University, 677007, Yakutsk, Russia

    O. I. Zakharova

  5. Institute for Humanitarian Research and North Indigenous People Problems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 677027, Yakutsk, Russia

    V. V. Filippova

  6. Institute of Natural Sciences, Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, 677007, Yakutsk, Russia

    E. S. Zakharov, V. V. Filippova & N. N. Zakharova

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Zakharov, E.S., Smetanin, N.N., Sidorov, I.A. et al. Distribution of the Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus L.) and the American Mink (Neovison vison Schreber) in Yakutia (Northeast Asia, Russia). Russ J Biol Invasions 14, 329–337 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111723030219

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