title: [The characteristics of the morphological study of the animal population on zonal transects (the initial concepts and assumptions)].
abstract: The article briefly describes the original concepts of morphological studies of animal communities. The use of geographic and structural approaches for studying the territorial heterogeneity of communities is considered. The problems of typological continuum of animal communities, principles of their classification and revealing of the environmental factors related to spatial differences of communities are discussed.
authors.forename: Iu S
authors.initials: IuS
authors.lastname: Ravkin
mesh_terms: D000828:Animal Population Groups / Q000145:classification; D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D005843:Geography; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics