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RESPONDENT
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Benoit Sittler
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SITE NAME
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Traill Island, Karupelv Valley, Greenland, Denmark
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| (49-761)2033629/(49-761)2033638 // sittler@ruf.uni-freiburg.de // Institut fur Landespflege Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg D-79085 Freiburg, Germany |
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PROJECT DETAILS
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Start of survey:
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End
of survey:
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Team
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WEATHER CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| 1999 in NE Greenland was the year with the latest snow melt (still more than 90% snow cover in early July) and the consequence was that wading birds suffered heavily from this situation. |
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BIOTIC CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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| Stoats showed delayed response by "outbreak" in July, while the initial big outbreak was in spring 1998, ie more than 16 months earlier. |
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Rodent dynamics:
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| There was again an outbreak of lemmings in winter (density of lemming winter nests was 1596 per 1000 ha.), but not so marked as the year before. And as now the rule in our system, decline was typical for summer.
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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