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RESPONDENT
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Vladimir Kalyakin
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SITE NAME
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Gusinaya Zemlya, Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Russia
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| Contact details
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| (095)479-74-13 // // Shirokaya St., 9-1-260, Moscow, 129282, Russia
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Weather conditions in summer 1993 were favourable.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
average
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Breeding conditions:
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| In August, numbers of lemmings (especially of Siberian Lemming Lemmus sibiricus) were increasing, and breeding was recorded in almost all rodent-feeding predators: in Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus, Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca, four species of skuas (adults with fledged young birds remained that time on breeding territories). At Gusinaya Land we also observed breeding of Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus. On the whole, the numbers of breeding predators varied noticeably in different areas. Numbers of Arctic Foxes were extremely low. Breeding was successful (broods with unfledged chicks) in Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima, Turnstone, Ringed Plover and Dotterel Charadrius morinellus, and was probably successful also in Little Stint. Numerous records of one to three fledged young Ruffs at Gusinaya Land indicated probable breeding of Ruff in that area.
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Rodent dynamics:
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Rodent species recorded:
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| Lemmus sibiricus | common |
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Summary
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