Evolution ways in caucasion alpine avifaune (on the example of evolutionary history)


(Rostv-on-Don)

Evolutionary history of the caucasian blackcock (Lirurus mlokosiewiczi Tacz.) can not be understood on the base of a traditional theory origin of caucasian alpine avifaune. The original authors hypothesis considers this process as an ancestor form penetration in the Caucasus together boreal floristic complex in glacial epoch. Degradation of mountain glacials brought the lifting of recent species to alpine level, ther it inhabits now.

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