|
|
RESPONDENT
|
|
Stanislav Gubin
|
|
|
SITE NAME
|
|
Bolshoi Khomus-Yuryakh River upper reaches, Northern Yakutia, Russia
|
|
| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (827)73-22-97(h), (827)722604(o) // gubin@issp.serpukhov.su // District "G", 28-59, Puschino, Moscovskaya oblast, 142290, Russia
|
|
PROJECT DETAILS |
|
Project name:
|
|
Soil-ecological expedition
|
|
|
Start of survey:
|
End
of survey: |
Team
size: |
|
10.09
|
10.10
|
12
|
|
WEATHER
CONDITIONS
|
|
|
|
Weather conditions: |
| Snow melted completely on flat surface on 1 June, and ice break-up occurred on 10 June. July and August were warm, but rains occurred frequently in late August. Permafrost retreated to a maximal depth in this season.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date of ice-break on
rivers: |
10.06
|
|
| Date of final loss of
snow: |
1.06
|
|
BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
|
| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
|
|
|
Breeding conditions:
|
| Geese were abundant on floodplain lakes, while cranes in river floodplains and watershed thermokarst lakes. Solitary records of swans, birds of prey and waders were made. Ducks and grouse were rare, although broods of the latter were not small and survived to fledging successfully.
|
|
|
Rodent dynamics:
|
|
|
|
Rodent species recorded:
|
|
|
|
|
Summary
of fauna studies: |
|
|
|