Plant cover and distribution of small mammals (Talpa europaea L.) at the example of the Predvolzhye of Niznhiy Novgorod

The article reveals the confinedness of common moles to a high general projective cover of a herb layer during an unimportant closeness of forest crop. There is established that moles avoid the tracts with a rich undergrowth of ash-tree, with a simultaneous confinedness to the tracts with an undergrowth of oak-tree. These facts witness about a positive role of European moles in the renewal of the oak-forest edificator. There is emphasized the significant amount of crotovin in oak-forests at the fields with high humidity, and the little amount is noticed at the dry fields with a middle degree of illumination. The surface passageways are met both in humid shadow places and at the forest margins.