REVIEW OF rodent fauna of forest SHELTER belt of KHAKASSIA
The data of the Department of Hunting Resource Studies and the Reserve Business of SFU (in particular G.A. Sokolov and M.M. Senotrusova for 2000 - 2016), as well as the authors' own observations during the field practice were used. The uniqueness of the wildlife of Khakassia is reflected in the Red Book of the Republic, considering that 17 species of mammals are under protection. The representatives of the steppe fauna of the main species of rodents of Khakassia were studied. The investigations were carried out in artificial shelterbelts of Khakassia, different species composition and construction. In the Shira steppe protective forest belts have been created on an area of 795 hectares (there are well preserved plantations from larch, larch with sea buckthorn, poplar black, larch with Bungė caragana), in the Koibal steppe plantings along the main canal (field protective role, perform such species as poplar, elm small-leaved, Siberian larch in various combinations with an undergrowth of acacia yellow, sea-buckthorn crooked, golden currant). The occurrence of species in different time periods is described. In forest belts a special fauna of small mammals is formed, consisting of representatives of forest, forest-steppe and steppe species: Sicista subtilis Pallas, 1773, Apodemus agrarius Pall., 1771, A. peninsulae Thomas, 1907, Micromys minutus Pall., 1771, Phodopus sungorus Pallas, 1773, Lagurus lagurus Pall., 1773, Clethrionomys rutilus Pall., 1779, Cl. rufocanus Sund., 1846, Microtus agrestis L., 1761, M. arvalis Pall., 1778, M. gregalis Pall., 1779. The most abundant to number of species of small mammals are forest belts with a well-developed phytomass, a different breed and with various bushes and shrubs in the undergrowth. Here rodents find the most attractive conditions forage, northerly and protective.