Abstract: The relevance of long-term studies of biological communities is growing every year due to global climate change and anthropogenic transformations. Monitoring the numbers of common forest-dwelling bird species in Eurasia shows a decline, particularly among long-distance migratory, taiga, and mountain species. In the Caucasus, such studies are fragmented; therefore, any long-term data from this…
Category: biodiversity
Climate change in the East European plain
Abstract: Analysis of regional changes in climatic parameters and moistening conditions is a necessary task for obtaining objective data on changes in landscapes. The article analyzes long-term changes in a complex of climatic variables on the south of the Central Russian Upland of the East European Plain in the last decades of the 20th century–the…
Diversity of Benthic Diatoms and Abiotic Patterns in the Headwaters of the Volga River
The Volga is the largest river in Europe and its headwaters comprise reference or least disturbed conditions. In the headwaters of the Volga (445 km) upstream of Tver, 27 diatom samples (18 from the Volga and nine from selected tributaries) were collected in shallow water along the banks from different habitats, wherefrom 270 taxa (244…
Spider biodiversity in the Perm Botanical Garden
Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of PSU’s Botanical Garden (Perm, Russia) Abstract Background The Botanical Garden of Perm State University was founded in 1916 and has a suitable site for studying urban invertebrate fauna. However, despite this, very few studies have been conducted on this topic over the past 100 years. Only a few individual works on…
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