Distribution de Marmota camtschatica Pall. dans la péninsule du Kamtchatka. Distribution of Marmota camtschatica camtschatica Pall. in the Kamchatka peninsula.

Résumé

During field studies carried out in Kamchatka in the period from 1980 to 1993, marmot colonies were mapped: 46 home ranges on the territory of 1460 ha at the Upper Jurtinnaya river and 23 home ranges on the area of 2400 ha at the Upper Bystraya (Kharyuzovka) river in the Sredinny ridge, in the region of Vershinskaya mountain, 6 to 7 home ranges (only 3 of them were inhabited) on the territory of 100 ha, in the Kronotsky reserve 45 colonies were found (among them 35 inhabited) on the area of 964 thousand ha, in the north-eastern part of Kamchatka (in the vicinity of Tolmatshew lake) 17 home ranges were mapped (6 inhabited ones) on the territory of 1200 ha. Not a single marmot settlement was found in a littoral zone along the south-eastern sea coast. Typical marmot habitats are mountain ridges and shallow valleys, sea-facing slopes of coastal terraces and mountain river valleys.