О кодировании сурковых колоний по происхождению. About coding of the marmot's colonies according to the origin. [Sur le codage des colonies de marmottes en fonction de leur origine].

Résumé

Three categories of marmots' division are suggested: aborigines (A), reacclimatized (Ao) and acclimatized (O). At first a country is mentioned - Russia, Ukraine,.... Then the place of dislocation must be pointed. It is an individual of the federation and the district. The individual of the federation can be entered according to road - patrolling classification. For example, Jadrinsky district of the Chuvash Republic will be Russia-21-Jadrin. During the last decades in Russia and in the countries of FSU appeared plenty of new marmot's settlements, which was possible owing to man's activity. There are some colonies, which appeared in the places of former marmot's inhabitant and quite new. During reacclimatization and acclimatization works were made mistakes and shortcomings (Bibikov et al. 1997, Dimitriev 1997). In some time these mistakes will be forgotten. However, they can bring into the marmots' genofond many changes and corrections. The united coding of the marmots' colonies is suggested according to the origin in order to take into consideration scientific researches in future. All marmots' colonies most of all are constant formations and in favourable conditions they can exist several centuries in the same place, which clearly testified Batyrevsky marmots' colony, known beginning from 1642. During (re)acclimatization of the marmots it is necessary while coding to point out the place from which they are brought and the year of their output. For example, Ao-Aznakaevo-1989; O-Staraya Kulatka-1985. Then it is important to enumerate colonies (1, 2, 3...). In such case it is necessary to know about the colonies a small detail - it is the main (main) or the daughter's (daughter). All in all the code of the marmot's colony will contain 8 main codes: 1. country, 2. Federation individual, 3. Administrative district of the federation individual (for defining the nearest populated area can be pointed out), 4. Colonies number, 5. Origin category, 6. Brought place, 7. Output year, 8. Main or daughter's colony. Certainly all these data can be represented as a type of table and it is possible as a formula, but the first variant is more convenient as in case of absence of any information it is seen at once. All this information must be kept in three places: Commission on Marmots Investigations Theriology Society of Russian Academy of Sciences, republican (regional) committee of nature guarding, administration of the hunting farm. Working out such brief passport information about the origin of the colonies will help in future in conducting and systematisation of the scientific researches. Publication of such united scientific classification is also necessary while aimed practical and guarding activities. As there are documents and people, who conduct (re)acclimatised works, it is necessary to conduct coding. It will be in use in future researches as the part of the cadastre of the marmot's colonies.