In Yamal it is planned to conduct the international meeting of researchers of herbivorous animals

Scientists of Yamal came back from Iceland, where they had participated in the working meeting of the international group on study of herbivorous animals. The group includes about 100 young scientists from countries of the whole circumpolar Arctic.

This information was given on the 26th of September by a candidate of biological sciences, the deputy director of the arctic scientific and research station at the institute of ecology of plants and animals, the Ural branch of the RAS, the leading researcher of the scientific center for study of the Arctic Alexander Sokolov on the press-conference in the news agency “Sever-Press”. This theme is important for Yamal because of the outbreak of anthrax and overgrazing, as he underlines. The scientists from Yamal were the only representatives from Russia. They presented the results of the experiment on testing of the unified methodology on assessment of number of herbivorous animals per one unit of the territory. The speech was successful. It is planned to conduct the next meeting of the group in Yamal in the end of 2017 – the beginning of 2018. Alexander Sokolov reminds that the scientists study influence of three groups of herbivorous animals on vegetation of tundra in different places of habitat near the research station Yerkuta. This year a student from Norway defended the diploma. She was invited to process data of the researches. She made clear findings that herbivorous animals of small, medium and large sizes contribute to destruction of vegetation. In other words, not only deer but also rodents, hares and partridges participate in eating of vegetation.