Soviet Studies in the Northward Movement of Birds

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Slessers, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1968
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Birds; Piciformes; Willow Ptarmigan; Novaya Zemlya; Russian Federation; Yenisey River region; Krasnoyarsk region; Greenland; Alaska; Arctic; Komsa; Vaygach; Yenisey; taiga; Tundra; Vaygach Island; Whooper Swan; yenisey river
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66314

The warming of the Arctic, especially in the Eurasian sector, has been pronounced since the 1920s. The tundra moves into the arctic desert, the taiga into the tundra, and along with this the mammals, birds and plants extend northward. Study of these changes in zoogeographical boundaries by Soviet sc...