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RESPONDENT
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Vladimir Pozdnyakov
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SITE NAME
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Bykovskaya channel, Lena River delta, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (411-2)33-68-15/(411-2)42-13-72(fax) // vpozd@mail.ru // Kulakovskogo St., 12-59, Yakutsk-7, 677077, 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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29.06
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23.09
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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| Season phenology: |
average
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Weather conditions: |
| Spring was average in timing, but warm and developed quickly. Flood also occurred in usual dates and had average level. Summer was colder than usual, but dry, and without extremal weather events.
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| Date of ice-break on
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
average
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Breeding conditions:
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| Low numbers of Arctic Foxes and beginning of lemming population increase resulted in low pressure of predators. Nests, broods and flocks of young birds were seen for all common species of the Lena River delta: Grey, Pacific Golden and Ringed plovers, Ruff, Dunlin, Little and Temminck's stints, Pectoral and Curlew sandpipers, Turnstone, Red Phalarope. Common and Pintail snipes were recorded in the southern part of the delta, where they probably nested. Generally, the season was favourable for bird reproduction.
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Rodent dynamics:
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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| Bird counts were conducted at Lena R. channels on boat.
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