1. Adaptation of the flora to anthropogenic impact in the southern Volga Upland

   • M. A. Berezutsky

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 943 - 949

2. Role of herbaceous plant communities in biogenic cycles of chemical elements

   • V. S. Bezel’
   • T. V. Zhuikova

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 950 - 956

3. Distribution and survival of the social vole in a clayey semidesert of the Trans-Volga region

   • A. V. Bykov
   • N. P. Shabanova
   • O. A. Bukhareva

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 957 - 961

4. Biphasic dependence of some ecomorphological and biochemical parameters of the birch leaf plate on the level of motor traffic pollution

   • E. A. Erofeeva
   • V. S. Sukhov
   • M. M. Naumova

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 962 - 966

5. Biological features of xylotrophic basidiomycete species from the right-bank Volga forest-steppe in nature and in culture

   • G. V. Il’ina
   • Yu. S. Lykov

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 967 - 973

6. Changes in resilience to fire disturbance in lowland pine forest ecosystems

   • A. V. Konstantinov

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 974 - 979

7. The current state of the Demoiselle crane population in the Transural steppe

   • V. A. Korovin

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 980 - 984

8. Plankton and ecological status of watercourses in territories of various types (an example of Voronezh oblast)

   • A. V. Krylov
   • A. V. Romanenko
   • J. I. Stepkin

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 985 - 991

9. Elements of nitrogen cycle in landscapes of the Northern Caspian Lowland

   • N. Yu. Kulakova
   • B. D. Abaturov

   OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 992 - 996

10. The diet composition of the social vole at the beginning stage of colonization of a zonal plain in a clayey semidesert of the Trans-Volga region

    • K. O. Larionov
    • A. V. Bykov
    • M. B. Shadrina

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 997 - 1000

11. Analysis of the microfabrics of reclaimed solonetzes at the Dzhanybek Research Station for evaluation of their ecological status

    • M. P. Lebedeva
    • M. L. Sizemskaya

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1001 - 1007

12. Testate amoebae community structure in the moss biotopes of streams

    • Yu. A. Mazei
    • O. I. Belyakova

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1008 - 1013

13. Dynamics of the mammal fauna in steppes of the Volga-Ural interfluve over the past century

    • M. L. Oparin
    • O. S. Oparina
    • A. A. Kuznetsov

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1014 - 1022

14. Characteristics of plant communities containing St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) in the Saratov Region

    • V. M. Parkhomenko
    • A. S. Kashin

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1023 - 1030

15. Climate-dependent changes in herbaceous vegetation on solonchakous solonetzes of the Northern Caspian Lowland

    • M. K. Sapanov
    • M. L. Sizemskaya

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1031 - 1036

16. Industrial wetlands as refuges for bird biodiversity conservation in the forest-steppe zone

    • S. N. Spiridonov
    • V. S. Sarychev
    • E. A. Sukharev

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1037 - 1042

17. Landscape-ecological assessment of bird communities in the middle Aldan valley

    • L. G. Vartapetov
    • N. N. Egorov
    • V. V. Okoneshnikov

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1043 - 1049

18. Changes in the species composition and trophic structure of soil macrofauna upon establishment of forest plantations in the Caspian semidesert

    • T. S. Vsevolodova-Perel
    • M. L. Sizemskaya
    • A. V. Kolesnikov

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1050 - 1055

19. Diversity and structure of macrozoobenthic communities in the highly mineralized Khara River (territory adjacent to Lake Elton)

    • T. D. Zinchenko
    • L. V. Golovatjuk
    • V. K. Shitikov

    OriginalPaper 28 December 2011 Pages: 1056 - 1066