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RESPONDENT
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Vasili Baranyuk
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SITE NAME
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Tundrovaya River valley, Wrangel Island, Russia
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| Contact details
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| (095)441-12-16 // vvbar@vvbar.msk.ru // Lomonosovsky Pr., 35-40, Moscow, Russia
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Though snow started to melt at the end of May (following warm weather), the summer was relatively cold and wet, not allowing the tundra to dry out.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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| Snowy Owl and Pomarine Skua did not breed. The number of Arctic Foxes was high but they did not reproduce. All located nests of eiders and Long-tailed Skuas were destroyed by predators. In a single large breeding colony of Snow Geese, 40% of nests were destroyed and all goslings were predated. None of the nature reserve staff in the area found any wader broods.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| The small numbers of lemmings present during spring had disappeared completely by the summer.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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