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RESPONDENT
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Mikhail Stishov
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SITE NAME
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Mys Shmidta settlement, Chukotka, Russia
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| Contact details
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| (095)465-47-93 // stishov@wrangel.msk.ru // Zapovednik "Ostrov Vrangelya", Ushakovskoie, Shmidtovski rayon, Chukotski okrug, 686870, Russia
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| The spring arrived early. By early June snow was absent not only from the lowland areas but from the northern mountain slopes as well. The weather throughout June was warm, without snowautumns or blizzards. Starting from mid-June because of the breaking of ice in the Long straight, coastal fogs, typical for the area, became more frequent.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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| Breeding Snowy Owls were unusially numerous: some nests were located right on the outskirts of the settlement, hundreds of metres from multi-story apartment buildings and only dozens of metres from gravel roads with relatively heavy traffic.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| During short field trips in settlement vicinities no lemmings were observed. Directed search for their active burrows on wet lagoon shores yielded nothing.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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