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Title: Assessment of the effect of development of the Bovanenkovskoe gas-condensate field in the middle Yamal region on the dynamics of the polar fox population

Journal Article · · Russian Journal of Ecology
OSTI ID:258672
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  1. Institute of Animal and Plant Ecology, Ekaterinburg (Russian Federation)

Based on the findings of integrated monitoring research, the state of polar fox population in a zone of heavy technogenic pressure is assessed experimentally. Networks of breeding burrows on permanent experimental and control plots were carefully examined over the course of three summer seasons. Active development of the Bovanenkovskoe gas-condensate field has led to loss of the central portion of this area as a zone of polar fox restocking. Heavy accelerated exploitation of other gas and gas-condensate fields in the Yamal Peninsula may lower the Yamal population of polar fox to the verge of extinction. 15 refs.

OSTI ID:
258672
Journal Information:
Russian Journal of Ecology, Vol. 26, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: May-Jun 1995; TN: Translated from Ecologiya; 26: No. 3, 227-231(1995)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English