Land use changes in Russia and their impact on migrating geese
Mikhail Grishchenko
Since the break-up of USSR in 1991 agriculture European Russia has been going through sweeping reorganization that resulted fundamental changes land use practices. This transformation led a widespread abandonment which old-field development on fields formerly used for grain production. These processes take place near stopover sites are by migrating greater white-fronted geese. species uses vast network across to rest and forage their way from Western Europe Russian Arctic back. With an ever increasing number them should become unsuitable change might potentially reshape migratory goose pushing explore alternative migration routes.