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RESPONDENT
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Vadim Vinogradov
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SITE NAME
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Kanin Peninsula, village Torna, Russia
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WEATHER
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Weather conditions: |
| This season was unusual due to a late spring, with snow melting only in the first days of June; very low temperatures; very small amount of precipitation -even the local old people did not remember such a low water table in the lakes in previous years; high tides on 23-25 June which coincided with strong north-westerly storm winds which flooded all the coastal areas on 25 June.
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BIOTIC
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
high
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Breeding conditions:
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By June all the common waders except Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus (which had arrived by 2 June) were already present on the breeding areas. Egg-laying occurred rather synchronously from 1-15 June. After nests were flooded on 25 June, several pairs of Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus, Dunlin and Little Stint laid new clutches. On this date only fresh clutches of Little and Temmincks Stint Calidris temminckii remained. In general, flooding negatively affected breeding success of all waders, and also of Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus and Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula, which breed on these coastal parts.
However, those bird species which breed in tundras and dunes, as well as those non-coastal waders that breed inland, had high breeding success. Hatching was synchronous, and broods remained large. Numbers of Glaucous Larus hyperboreus and Eastern Herring Larus heuglini Gulls were ten times lower than in 1993.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Lemming numbers were high.
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Rodent species recorded:
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