BANIERE

An International Polar Year initiative to use predators as indicators of arctic changes

WORKSHOPS

Arctic predators workshop in the YAMAL-NENETS district - Salekhard 21-25 April 2008

Title of the workshop:

Lemmings and Arctic Predators in the Arctic Tundra (2nd annual meeting of the IPY Arctic-Predators project)

Organized by:

Yamal-Nenets autonomous Okrug Department for international relations

&

the Ecological research center Institute for plant and animal ecology Ural Branch Russian Academy of Science

The main organizers were: Evgenia Titovskaya and Alexander Sokolov

You can download here some of the presentations on various aspect of the arctic dynamic of predators and rodents. The abstracts of the presentation will be available later on.

Name of the participant and link to the presentation	e-mail
Nigel Yoccoz	Nigel.Yoccoz AT ib.uit.no
Rolf Ims	Rolf.ims AT ib.uit.no
Gilles Gauthier	Gilles.gauthier AT bio.ulaval.ca
Eva Fuglei	Eva.fuglei AT npolar.no
Dorothee Ehrich	Dorothee.ehrich AT ib.uit.no
Nicolas Lecomte	Nicolas.lecomte AT ib.uit.no
Dominique Berteaux	Dominique_berteaux AT uqar.qc.ca
Heikki Henttonen	Heikki.henttonen AT metla.fi
Anders Angerbjorn	Anders.angerbjorn AT zoologi.su.se
Benoit Sittler	Benoit.sittler AT landespflege.uni-freiburg.de
Eugene Potapov	eugenepotapov AT gmail.ru
Feodor Kryazhimskiy	feodor AT r66.ru
Nikita Ovsyannikov	Nikita_ov AT mail.ru
Vladimir Pozdnyakov	vpozd AT mail.ru
Vasiliy Grabovskiy	wgrabo AT mail.ru
Igor Popov	iyupopov AT mail.ru
Mikhail Soloviev	soloviev AT soil.msu.ru
Andrey Glotov	kazarka AT atnet.ru
Gennadiy Kataev	kataev AT lapland.ru
Vasiliy Sokolov	sokolov AT inbox.ru
Oleg Zhigalskiy	zig AT ipae.uran.ru
Kirill Maklakov	kvm AT sky.ru
Viktor Shtro	shtro AT yandex.ru
Alexander Sokolov	sokhol AT yandex.ru

Two videos on Googlevideo about the meeting by Eugene Potapov: video1 - video2

Some information on Salekahrd and Yamal:http://map.rin.ru/index_e.html http://www.adm.yanao.ru/94/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal_Peninsula, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug

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Workshops of the IPY-ArcticWOLVES project

13-15 April 2007. Université Laval (Canada)

22-24 Feb 2008. Université Laval (Canada)

Workshop 9-12 th March 2007 at the University of Tromsø

The list of participants was:

From Russia:

Irina Menyushina (Wrangel Island State Nature Reserve)

Andrey S. Glotov (Nenetski Nature Reserve)

Alexander Sokolov (Ecological Research Station - River Erkuta, Yamal)

Vladimir Pozdnyakov (International Biological Station Lena-Nordenskjöld)

Ivan Pokrovsky (Moscow State University – PhD candidate)

From Norway:

Ronny Aanes (Norwegian Polar Insititute)

Dorothée Ehrich (University of Tromsø)

Eva Fuglei (Norwegian Polar Insititute)

Rolf Ims (University of Tromsø)

Nicolas Lecomte (University of Tromsø)

Harald Steen (Norwegian Polar Insititute)

Nigel G. Yoccoz (University of Tromsø)

Location:

Workshops took place at the Institute of Biology, UiøT.

Program overview:

9-10 th March: Full round of presentations on field sites and project objectives

Nigel and Dorothee have presented the project with some comments/ideas on developing indicators for ecosystem states and changes in the Arctic.

On the Russian side, all 4 scientists in charge of a field site have presented

a) the work and data available from their field site (including old material and climate data),

b) what is currently done and which methods are used.

On the Norwegian side, Eva, Ronny and Harald have presented the same for Svalbard (Spitsbergen) and Rolf and Nigel did the same for northern Norway (Varanger peninsula). Nicolas showed the work done on Bylot Island. Eva & Nicolas have discussed issues related to the large use of stable isotopes in our project.