In July-August 2023, within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation project “Microcrustaceans (Cladocera, Copepoda) of the north of Central Siberia: relict elements of the fauna, patterns of formation and variability of communities,” employees of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences organized an expedition to the Anabar Plateau in the valleys of the Kotuykan and Kotuy rivers. The duration of the expedition was more than three weeks. The total length of the route is more than 250 km. Extensive material has been collected on the fauna of tundra thermokarst reservoirs, swamp lakes and oxbow lakes, hyporhea, as well as the drift of organisms in small and large rivers.
Information about microcrustaceans of the Anabar Plateau will make it possible to describe the general trends in the variability of fauna and communities of aquatic organisms in the reservoirs of the mountain plateaus of the Arctic. Based on the results of the expedition, one article has been published and another is awaiting reviews.
Employees of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, having taken part in the expedition, produced a film “Microcrustaceans of the north of Central Siberia: expedition to the Anabar Plateau”, in which they demonstrated the work during the expedition.
We thank Ivan Pavlovich Sadchikov for creating the film (video shooting, editing and film idea).