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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
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (095)441-12-16 // vvbar@vvbar.msk.ru // Lomonosovsky Pr., 35-40, Moscow, Russia
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Spring was rapid and early without late frosts; tundra areas were 50% free of snow by 20 May. Summer was warm, but autumn and winter came rather early as it began snowing in the middle of August.
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| Date of 50%
snow-cover: |
20.05
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
average
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Breeding conditions:
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| There were few Arctic Foxes but they bred, as well as a few Snowy Owls and Pomarine Skuas. Records of unfledged chicks of Grey Plover, Turnstone, Knot Calidris canutus and Pectoral Sandpiper (the latter was unusually numerous at suitable sites) indicated successful wader breeding.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Both lemming species were present in average or slightly above average numbers and were still increasing.
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Rodent species recorded:
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| Latin | Abundance |
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| Lemmus sibiricus | common |
| Dicrostonyx torquatus | common |
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Summary
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