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RESPONDENT
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Sergey Paskhalny
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SITE NAME
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Kharasaway, Yamal Reninsula, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (34992) 5-19-10 // spas2006@yandex.ru // Zelyonaya Gorka, 18-1, Labytnangi, Tumenskaya oblast, 629400, Russia
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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Start of survey:
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End
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Team
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31.07
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7.08
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| According to data of meteorological station, a late and prolonged spring gradually turned into a cold and windy summer. Snow at certain places remained till mid-June and in some gullies probably throughout the summer.
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| Date of ice-break on
rivers: |
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| Date of final loss of
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15.07
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
average
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Breeding conditions:
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No Arctic Fox dens were found. The density of Pomarine Skuas that apparently nested on the coastal tundra was high (1.8 pair/km2). One Rough-legged Buzzard nest with 2 large nestlings was investigated. Herring and Glaucous Gulls mostly kept to the coastline. Snowy Owls and other avian predators were absent.
Wader numbers and their species diversity were low at the beginning of the observation period. Little Stints made up the bulk of all encounters (40.4%), some Ringed Plovers (23.4%) were seen near the settlement, Reeves with broods - 10.6%; Dunlin, Red-necked Phalaropes and Ruddy Turnstones were more rare. The general opinion was that the breeding success of most waders was low, most probably due to the unfavourable weather conditions. Little Stints and Ringed Plovers did slightly better than other waders.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| According to the observations taken on 31 July - 7 August lemming numbers (mostly Siberian Lemming) were not below average and in some places even high (15-20 individuals per 100 trap-days) which was a result of their successful breeding under the snow judging from the high number of winter nests.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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