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SITE NAME
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Pura River middle reaches, Crocodile Island, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| // // EGI, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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Project name:
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Red-breasted Goose Biology
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Start of survey:
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End
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Team
size: |
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3
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Little precipitation. temperatures variable -4C to +20C.
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rivers: |
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snow: |
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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| Temperatures were variable but not severe. Fox and other predator pressure was low, probably, despite no lemmings being about.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| No lemmings were seen though there were lots of lemming holes.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
of fauna studies: |
| Concentrated studies on one colony of 37 pairs red-breasted Geese c. 35 pairs of Herring Gulls
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