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RESPONDENT
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Pavel Tomkovich
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SITE NAME
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Kotzebue, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (495)6294474/(495)629-48-25(fax, for P. Tomkovich) // pst@zmmu.msu.ru // Zoological Museum, Bolshaya Nikitskaya St., 6, Moscow, 125009, Russia
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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Start of survey:
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End
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Team
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28.05
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12.06
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| During brief visits to the settlement and its close vicinity in the period from 28 May to 1 June and from 10-12 June we found that spring came late and proceeded slowly because of large amount of accumulated snow and regular cooling effect of wind and fog from the Chukchi Sea. Migration of waterfowl and waders continued during the first third of June.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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| Willow Grouse were common on hills with bushes in late May, but their number decreased strongly by mid June, probably due to hunting. On 10 June complete clutches of fresh eggs were found in Semipalmated Sandpipers and Savannah Sparrow.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Few signs of presence of Microtine rodents belonged to previous year(s).
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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