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RESPONDENT
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Dorothee Ehrich
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SITE NAME
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Dikson Island, Taimyr, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| ++ 47 22 85 45 86/++ 47 22 85 46 05 // Dorothee.Ehrich@ib.uit.no //
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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Start of survey:
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Snow and ice melted later than usual, but summer was warm, and without snowfalls till late August.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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| Arctic Foxes were met only twice. Birds of prey were not breeding, including Snowy Owls, old nests of which were checked. Warm summer attracted a lot of wandering reindeers. A brood of Brent Goose was met on Dickson island, flocks of Brent Goose and White-fronted Goose were frequently met during summer. Some wader species, passerines, and Rock Ptarmigans were breeding, and fledgings met, but generally tundra produced impression of uninhabited.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Lemmings were rare: Siberian Lemmings were caught in small numbers when searching for inhabited burrows in the optimal (wet) habitats; Collared Lemmings were even less abundant.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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