Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
9th Internatıonal Symposium on Ecology and Enviromental Problems , Antalya, Türkiye, 1 - 03 Kasım 2019, ss.65
Turkiye is located between Europe and Asia with the variable topography and climate which provide many different macro- or microhabitats for species. These heterogeneities host many species and subspecies. The Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar, Galliformes), is a medium-sized partridge and economically and culturally important birds of Turkiye which occurs in most of this habitat heterogony. In this study, we sampled 225 male chukars and measured 9 morphometric characters (head height, head width, bill length, bill width, bill height, wing, tail, and shape and length of throat and breast band) from 16 populations in different regions of Anatolia and Trace to determine the morphometric variation among the Turkish Chukar Partridge populations. Both linear and multivariant analyses were performed with R 3.5.1. Logtransformed measurements analysed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with regions as the explanatory factor to test whether differences were significant. Also, all nine morphological measurements were combined into a principal component analysis; then cluster analysis was performed. We found that all characters were different among the 16 populations. Furthermore, 6 clusters were detected (Trace, West and Central Black Sea, East and South-East Anatolia, Aegean and Central Anatolia, Eastern Taurus Mountains, and Anatolian Diagonal), and Trace region was the most different population among the others. Results indicate considerable morphometric variation among the Turkish Chukar Partridge populations related to geographic and habitat heterogeneity of Turkiye.