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SITE NAME
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Franz Josef Land Archipelago, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (495)748-0552/(495)748-0553(fax) // avolkov@iscmoscow.ru // PB 85, 117312 Moscow, Russia
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Judging from the heavy ice conditions on 17 - 20 August the summer was cold. Ice on the channels in the western and northern parts of the archipelago never broke.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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| Predatory birds (Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus, Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus) bred successfully. Records of waders during the observation period were rather scarce: one sighting of the Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima and two of Turnstones Arenaria interpres. Since in 1996 more Purple Sandpipers were recorded on the Nortbruk island (G.M.Tertitski, pers. comm.), one can suggest that in 1997 wader breeding success was poor.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| No rodents occur there.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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