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SITE NAME
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Northern Greenland, Denmark
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| Contact details
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| // // GREA, Route de Vernot, 21440 FRANCHEVILLE, France
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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| Records of breeding waders (Knots, Ringed Plovers, Sanderlings and Turnstones) are interesting because recorded in sites north of 80ø latitude (even up to Kap Morris Jesup), but they reveal little in terms of annual trends since data from previous years are not available.
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Rodent dynamics:
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The lemming situation was also assessed in August as part of an exploratory journey during shorter stop overs in various sites between Hochstetter Forland (75ø N) and Kap Morris Jesup (83ø40 N). Apart from Henrik K.Holme (81ø35N, 13ø43 W), indirect indices of presence of lemmings were observed in all of 8 sites, but in none we could find any indication suggesting a lemming high.
As observations consisting in searches of winternests and active burrows could not be done on a systematic basis, and as habitats belong mostly to polar deserts, this assessment only gives a rough idea about the patterns. In fact, as recent winter nests were not very frequent and as no breeding of avian predators (owls and Long-tailed skuas) was observed in these sites, there was no indication of any lemming population peak north of 75ø N. The finding of fresh lemming carcasses (at least 3 cases) in nests of Ivory Gulls near Station North (81øN) deserves mention.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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