1. Syntaxonomy of Southern Ural Forests as a basis for the system of their protection

   • V. B. Martynenko
   • B. M. Mirkin
   • A. A. Muldashev

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 459 - 465

2. Biological productivity of bogs in the middle taiga subzone of Western Siberia

   • N. P. Kosykh
   • N. P. Mironycheva-Tokareva
   • E. K. Parshina

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 466 - 474

3. Response of three dominant shrubs to soil water and groundwater along the oasis-desert ecotone in Northwest China

   • X. -P. Wei
   • X. -Y. Pan
   • J. -M. Deng

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 475 - 482

4. Phenogenetic monitoring of the weeping birch (Betula pendula Roth.) in the Middle Urals: testing a new method for assessing developmental instability in higher plants

   • A. G. Vasil’ev
   • I. A. Vasil’eva
   • Yu. F. Marin

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 483 - 489

5. Plant matter decomposition in the upper timberline ecotone of the Polar Urals

   • N. I. Andreyashkina

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 490 - 494

6. Association between radioactive fallout from 1951–1962 US nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site and cancer mortality in midwestern US populations

   • L. E. Peterson
   • R. L. Miller

   OriginalPaper 26 November 2008 Pages: 495 - 509

7. Analysis of monitoring data on the Russian desman (Desmana moschata) in the Oka state biosphere reserve in relation to the problem of species’ population decline

   • N. M. Okulova
   • A. S. Onufrenya
   • M. V. Onufrenya

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 510 - 515

8. Double-brooded great tits (Parus major) in Mediterranean oak habitats: Do first broods always perform better than second broods?

   • M. M. Lambrechts
   • A. Rieux
   • J. Blondel

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 516 - 522

9. Coat color polymorphism in populations of the northern mole vole in the Ural Region

   • N. G. Evdokimov
   • N. V. Sineva

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 523 - 529

10. Temperature niche of the Altai Zokor Myospalax myospalax Laxmann (1773)

    • A. A. Nikol’skii

    OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 530 - 536

11. The forest biotic pump of river basins

    • A. M. Makar’eva
    • V. G. Gorshkov

    Short Communications 09 November 2008 Pages: 537 - 540

12. Mobility of technogenic radionuclides in the soil-plant system

    • E. N. Karavaeva
    • I. V. Molchanova
    • L. N. Mikhailovskaya

    Short Communications 09 November 2008 Pages: 541 - 543

13. Microsatellite DNA variation in Ural bank vole populations

    • E. A. Gileva
    • S. B. Rakitin
    • S. V. Mukhacheva

    Short Communications 09 November 2008 Pages: 544 - 547