“…The works devoted to long-term investigations of the dynamics of shrew communities in Asia are scarce (Sheftel, 1989;Dokuchaev, 1990;Nesterenko, 1999;Sergeev et al, 2001;Vinogradov, 2012;Litvinov et al, 2015). Several hypothesizes of the coexistence of ecologically similar shrew species have been proposed (Okhotina, 1974;Churchfield et al, 1994;Churchfield et al, 1999;Nesterenko, 1999;Sergeev, 2003).…”