Atlas of Breeding Waders in the Russian Arctic [Russian]

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Language: Russian with English summaries and bilingual figure captions and table headings

Atlas of Breeding Waders in the Russian Arctic presents a summary and analysis of distribution of breeding waders (shorebirds, suborder Limicolae, order Charadriiformes) in the Russian Arctrctic, the region where begin almost all migration flyways of waders over-wintering on most continents. Atlas of Breeding Waders in the Russian Arctic has as its foundation an electronic Access database that contains and analyses breeding and abundance records of waders from 2859 locations collected over 150 years of research. These data come from 1360 published and unpublished sources including the mass of information accrued by the authors themselves.

Comprehensive accounts for each of the 51 wader species regularly breeding in the Russian Arctic are supplied with three maps generated in ArcView: map of breeding records, map of abundance and an extrapolated breeding distribution map. For the first time, we identify core (optimum) breeding areas for most wader species. The introductory chapters address the question of geographic boundaries of Atlas of Breeding Waders in the Russian Arctic region, discuss approaches to mapping breeding distribution, describe the methodology for surveying breeding waders and compare their results. The concluding chapter evaluates the historic trends in distribution and abundance of Arctic waders over the past 150 years. Atlas of Breeding Waders in the Russian Arctic aims at a broad readership including researchers – biologists and geographers, birdwatchers, and employees of wildlife and game management, conservation and protection agencies.

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