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SITE NAME
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Amderma, Yugorsky Peninsula, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (812)3774189 // m_gavrilo@mail.ru; mashuka@aari.nw.ru // Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Beringa, 38, St.-Peterburg, 199397, 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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Aug
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Aug
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4
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| The season was late, judging by observations in mid August, and by evidence provided by local people.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
high
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Breeding conditions:
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| Arctic Foxes were rare in the settlement vicinities, but bred. Rough-legged Buzzards and Pomorine Skuas were breeding, the former reached a density of 10 pairs per 10 km of a transect. Snowy Owls were abundant in August (2-3 birds/1 km of transect), but breeding not recorded. Yet not fledged broods of sea ducks (Greater Scoup, Long-tailed Duck, and Common Eider) were recorded on lakes and sea, and of Ringed Plovers - in the village. Generally, the season seemed favourable for reproduction of tundra birds.
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Rodent dynamics:
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| Siberian Lemmings were abundant in the end of summer: they were met everywhere, and the nests with young were found.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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