History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back THE STUDIES ON INVERTEBRATES OF THE CAUCASUS AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES IN TEMBOTOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY OF MOUNTAIN TERRITORIES, RAS I.B. Rapoport, V.I. Lantsov, A.R. Bibin, M.H. Karmokov, N.B. Vinokurov, Z.M. Yusupov, A.A. Aiydov The article describes the main stages of the work of the Laboratory for ecology of invertebrate species and communities over the period of 2004–2019. The research scientists of Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, Russian Academy of Sciences studied the species composition, biology, environmental peculiarities and indices of the species abundance of earthworms, orthopterous insects, non-biting midges, crane flies, limoniids, pediciids, rove beetles and beetles, which are trophically and topically related to wood, myxomycetes and wooddestroying fungi, ants and cuckoo wasps of the Northern Caucasus and some other territories. Due to high abundance and biomass, all these groups of invertebrates play an important role in maintaining the stability of most terrestrial ecosystems and are valuable links in food and decomposition chains. In the laboratory relationships between the species composition and population structure of invertebrates under survey and climatic factors and other characteristics of ecosystems are investigated. The studies on fauna and ecology are the basis for research works of conservation status. Keywords: Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, RAS; Laboratory for ecology of invertebrate species and communities, fauna, ecology, species vertical-zonal distribution, structural and functional organization of communities. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.08.2019.794 Contacts: E-mail: rap-ira777@rambler.ru Pp. 36-46.