1. The State of Protected Forest Communities in the European Forest–Steppe Zone of Russia and Prospects for Their Reconstruction: A Case Study of Specially Protected Areas of Penza Oblast

   • A. A. Chistyakova
   • N. A. Leonova

   OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 291

2. Distribution of Calculated Indices and an Attempt of Its Biological Interpretation Using the Production Characteristics of Grass Communities

   • N. V. Peshkova
   • N. I. Andreyashkina

   OriginalPaper Pages: 292 - 297

3. On the Formal and Informal Estimates of Floristic Diversity: An Example of Pine Forests of the Southern Urals

   • V. B. Martynenko
   • B. M. Mirkin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 298 - 302

4. The Role of Micromycetes in the Phytotoxicity of Crude Oil-Polluted Soils

   • S. A. Ilarionov
   • A. V. Nazarov
   • I. G. Kalachnikova

   OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 308

5. Analysis of Factors Determining Accumulation of ¹³⁷Cs by Woody Plants

   • S. V. Fesenko
   • N. V. Sukhova
   • E. Lukaus

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 313

6. Species-Specific Features of Inter- and Intrapopulation Variation in the Level of Chromosome Instability in Rodents

   • V. N. Bol'shakov
   • E. A. Gileva
   • L. E. Yalkovskaya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 314 - 319

7. Functioning of a Multispecies Haul-out of True Seals (Phocidae) in the Oil Production Region on the Shelf of Sakhalin Island

   • A. M. Trukhin
   • S. A. Blokhin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 320 - 326

8. The Structure of Narrow-Skulled Vole (Microtus gregalis Pall.) Colonies in Western Siberia

   • N. A. Pal'chekh
   • M. G. Mal'kova
   • V. V. Yakimenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 331

9. Holarctic Collared Lemmings: Traces of Their Spread as Related to the History of the Arctic Biota

   • N. G. Smirnov
   • V. B. Fedorov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 332 - 338

10. Physiological Rearrangements in the Progeny of White Rats in the Zone of the Chernobyl Accident

    • T. Yu. Mizina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 343

11. On the Population Structure of the Kamchatka Sable

    • E. A. Dubinin
    • A. S. Valentsev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 344 - 349

12. Physiological Age of Host Plant Foliage and Survival of Gypsy Moth Larvae

    • V. I. Ponomarev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 350 - 354

13. Solving the Ecological Problems of Sand-Coquina Landscapes in the Eastern Sea of Azov Region by Means of Afforestation

    • A. P. Maksimenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 358

14. Arachnids (Arachnidae) in a Spring Wheat Agrocenosis in Southern Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Effect of Treatment with Decis, a Pyrethroid Insecticide, on Their Populations

    • E. A. Bel'skaya
    • S. L. Esyunin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 362