From the Wind Rose to the Wildlife Geometry, or Why Count Animals

Biology is not bogged down, but progresses into very interesting areas. Such areas do not concern individual representatives of all creatures great and small, but are dedicated to their communities. They include general patterns of distribution of animals over the territory, their number, and dependence on environmental conditions. The article describes the terms and concepts of the modern zoogeography, the science that deals with the distribution of animals, its goals and objectives and methods for their solution, as well as information about the practical use of the obtained results. Also it shows the transition from classical biology to a geometry that seems to be completely unrelated and more than that, also unusual.

factor zoogeography, geographical monitoring, biodiversity, heterogeneity of animal communities, statistical prediction