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RESPONDENT
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Ludmila Emeliyanova
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SITE NAME
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Berelyakh River mouth, Russia
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| Contact details
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| // ludmila@biokom.msk.ru // Dept. of biogeography, Geographical faculty, Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Late July and early August were cold and wet, unmelted ice still remained on Lebedinoe lake. Repeated summer snowfalls resulted in establishment of snowcover for a period of up to two days.
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BIOTIC
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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| Snowy Owls and Arctic Foxes were not seen.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Counts and focused searches for lemmings in tundra and forest tundra resulted in catching of a single Siberian Lemming. Traces of their activities could also be seen extremaly rare, which all-togather idensifies population situation as a deep depression.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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