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Scientific Review. Biological science
ISSN 2500-3399
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE SETTLEMENT PROXIMITY ON BADGER (MELES MELES L.) SETT DISTRIBUTION AND USED IN CONDITION OF UPLAND OAK FOREST IN THE NATIONAL NATURAL PARK «GOMILSHANSKI LISY»

Brusentsova N.A. 1 Ukrainskiy P.A. 2
1 National natural park «Slobozhanskyi»
2 Belgorod State National Research University
Information on the distribution of badger setts in the upland oak forest of National natural park “Gomilshanski lisy” was collected and the influence of human settlements proximity on setts usage was analyzed. Geographical density of the setts (all and only used) was studied. For this purpose, rasters of density were created in the program ArGIS 10.1. It was found that near to the settlements proportion of unused badger setts were increased. An equation that describes linkage between density of used setts, distance from settlements and all badger setts density was obtain with GIS implementation of ordinary least squares (OLS) method. Revealed trends are not stable and varies in space. Local 41 42 models were created on the basis of geographically weighted regression (GWR). They characterize effect of settlement proximity to the used badger setts. Comparison of OLS and GWR models showed that HWR is more effective. This is indicated by higher determination coefficient and lower value of the Akaike information criterion. GWR results cartographic visualization showed that geography of local territory models is divided into three zones. Each zone corresponds to the particular settlement