1. Comparison of different ecological scales with respect to efficiency in assessing ecological conditions in forests of the Southern Ural region

   • P. S. Shirokikh
   • V. B. Martynenko

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 457 - 465

2. The hypothesis of the pulsed dynamics of virgin beech forests

   • V. I. Parpan
   • S. N. Sannikov
   • T. V. Parpan

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 466 - 470

3. Ant species composition and richness in different types of semi-natural grasslands

   • Lisette Lenoir

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 471 - 476

4. Potential of Coriaria nepalensis for establishment of tree seedlings: Implication for restoration of degraded hill slopes of Central Himalaya

   • Beena Joshi
   • Vidit Tyagi

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 477 - 481

5. Irregularity in frequency of mast seed years in Quercus floribunda a late successional species of Central Himalaya

   • Beena Joshi
   • Ashish Tewari

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 482 - 485

6. Abundance of orchids on calcareous grasslands in relation to community species, environmental, and vegetational conditions

   • M. Landi
   • F. Frignani
   • C. Angiolini

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 486 - 494

7. Assessment of surface waters acidification as indicated by zooplankton in the taiga zone of Northern European Russia

   • N. K. Shustova
   • I. N. Zalicheva
   • V. S. Ganina

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 495 - 500

8. Differences in plant species diversity between conifer (Pinus tabulaeformis) plantations and natural forests in middle of the Loess plateau

   • Renyan Duan
   • Chao Wang
   • Hua Guo

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 501 - 509

9. The ecosystem of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk under conditions of heavy anthropogenic pollution

   • J. P. Selifonova

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 510 - 515

10. Aerobic spore-forming bacteria from the region of salt mining

    • O. V. Yastrebova
    • E. G. Plotnikova
    • V. A. Demakov

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 516 - 521

11. Spatial interrelations between bank voles and yellow-necked mice in Crabapple Island

    • Gabriela Bujalska
    • Leszek Grüm
    • Aleksei Vasil’ev

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 522 - 528

12. Temperature conditions in burrows of the steppe marmot, Marmota bobak Müller (1776), in the hibernation period

    • A. A. Nikol’skii

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 529 - 536

13. Comparing different environmental variables in predictive models of bird distribution

    • Afshin Alizadeh Shabani
    • Lynne C. McArthur
    • Mali Abdollahian

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 537 - 542

14. Salinity tolerance polygon of Hydrobia ulvae (Pennant, 1777) (Mollusca: Hydrobiidae)

    • A. Yu. Komendantov
    • A. O. Smurov

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2009 Pages: 543 - 546