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Ecology of yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava L.) in the forest tundra of Western Siberia and factors limiting its northward rage expansion

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Based on the long-term studies of the ecology of yellow wagtail in the Lower Ob region and the experimental results, factors determining the penetration of this species into the tundra of the Yamal Peninsula have been analyzed.

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Ryzhanovsky, 2013, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, No. 3, pp. 399–410.

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Ryzhanovsky, V.N. Ecology of yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava L.) in the forest tundra of Western Siberia and factors limiting its northward rage expansion. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 6, 306–314 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425513030128

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