FAUNISTIC STUDIES ON MAMMALS: HISTORY OF APPROACHES AND RECENT TRENDS

Abstract

An analysis of faunistic studies on mammals has been carried out over the past two and a half centuries. Historical changes in faunistics and their link to arealogical concepts are traced. The main factors that hindered the development of arealogy, despite the constant growth of faunistic information, are identified. Recently, the problems of storing and searching for faunistic information have been solved due to the technological and theoretical changes that have taken place over the last decades, approaches to the use of amateur data have been developed, the necessary structure of the collected faunistic information has been formulated, and the problem of planning the collection of material has been solved. Actively using the faunistic data in species distribution modelling has made it possible to understand their necessary spatial distribution for a species range description.