Mongolian Small Mammal Parasite Project

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	Mongolia 1999 A project among the National University of Mongolia, the Museum of Southwestern Biology of the University of New Mexico, the H.W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Sapporo University brought together personnel from these organizations under the auspices of the International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) program of the National Science Foundation. Mongolian colleagues spent time in New Mexico at the Sevilletta Long Term Ecological Research Site as well as collecting in the the Ladron Mountains of central New Mexico with members of the project from the Museum of Southwestern Biology. In the summer of 1999, a field expedition to Mongolia was conducted with members of all of these intstitutions. As part of this collaboration, we established a small mammal monitoring site in Gorkhi Terelj National Park, conducted a week long training session for students from the National University of Mongolia, and also sampled mammals at various localities elsewhere in the country at this time. A second, small collection was also made by during a subsequent ILTER meeting at Lake Hovsgol in July, 2001. Our collections were augmented by specimens obtained in 1997 by Steve O. MacDonald (University of Alaska Museum) in the Bulgan Aymag. The mammal results of this trip were reported in a Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology (Tinnin et al., 2002). The parasites are currently being identified and the results of those findings will be added to the appropriate sections as they become available and results are published. Mammal specimens are currently housed at the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the parasite specimens at the H.W. Manter Lab. 0. Getting there is half the fun. Travel to and around Mongolia. 1. Gorkhi Terelj National Park. 2. Gorkhi Terelj Tuul River. 3. Erdenesant. 4. Southwest of Ulaan Baatar. 5. Elsen Tasarkhai. 6. Hangal Soum. 7. Kharkhorin. 8. Ulaan Tsutgaalan. 9. Khetsuugiin Ovor. 10. Ulziyt Uul. 11. Arts Bogd. 12. Ulaan Nuur. 13. West of Ulaan Nuur. 14. Erdenelai Suum. 15. Hovsgol National Park.

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