1. Contemporary expansion of Siberian larch into the mountain tundra of the Polar Urals

   • S. G. Shiyatov
   • V. S. Mazepa

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 495 - 502

2. Heritability of climate response of Scotch pine clones under conditions of the Sredneobskiy pine forest

   • I. V. Tikhonova
   • V. V. Tarakanov
   • N. A. Tikhonova

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 503 - 510

3. Fine root biomass, productivity and turnover in two contrasting aspects in natural Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forests of Central Himalaya

   • Harshit Pant
   • Ashish Tewari

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 511 - 517

4. Consequences of isolation of subalpine meadow communities in the Western Caucasus: Reduction of species richness without the density compensation effect

   • V. V. Akatov
   • T. V. Akatova

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 518 - 523

5. Ecological status and the spread of false brome in the Andrews Forest, Western Oregon, USA

   • K. D. Kim

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 524 - 530

6. State of epiphytic lichen communities under anthropogenic impact: Effect of abundance assessment methods on the informativity of indices

   • I. N. Mikhailova
   • V. S. Mikryukov
   • I. V. Frolov

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 531 - 536

7. Relative contribution of breeding system and species rarity to genetic differentiation in Inula racemosa Hook. f. (Asteraceae)

   • Peerzada Arshid Shabir
   • Irshad A. Nawchoo
   • Ali Abbas Rather

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 537 - 546

8. Problems and prospects for protecting insect communities in Tien Shan high-mountain passes with a case study of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)

   • S. K. Korb

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 547 - 551

9. Analysis of coupled geographic variation of three shrew species from Southern and Northern Ural taxocenes

   • A. G. Vasil’ev
   • I. A. Vasil’eva
   • T. P. Kourova

   OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 552 - 558

10. Chemoorientation in the feeding behavior of the blind Mexican cavefish Astyanax fasciatus (Characidae, Teleostei)

    • A. O. Kasumyan
    • E. A. Marusov

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 559 - 563

11. Heavy metals in the mother–placenta–fetus system in bank voles under conditions of environmental pollution from copper plant emissions

    • S. V. Mukhacheva
    • V. S. Bezel’

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 564 - 572

12. Phytoplankton of protected shallows in the Rybinsk Reservoir in the zone affected by the black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus L.) colony

    • E. G. Sakharova
    • L. G. Korneva

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 573 - 578

13. Annual molt cycle of arctic warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) from northwestern siberia and its geographic variation

    • V. N. Ryzhanovskii

    OriginalPaper 24 October 2015 Pages: 579 - 584

14. Heavy metals in the organs of Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) from the Chukchi Peninsula

    • A. M. Trukhin
    • L. F. Kolosova
    • E. N. Slin’ko

    Short Communications 24 October 2015 Pages: 585 - 588

15. Distribution of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from different ecological groups in the forest-meadow ecotone

    • A. G. Voronin
    • L. N. Chumakov

    Short Communications 24 October 2015 Pages: 589 - 591

16. Density-dependent regulatory mechanisms in the sexual maturation of male red-backed voles

    • O. A. Zhigalskii
    • V. P. Mamina

    Short Communications 24 October 2015 Pages: 592 - 594

17. The influence of windfall disturbances on the structure and dynamics of ground beetle populations (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the spruce forests of the Central Forest Nature Reserve

    • E. D. Korobov

    Short Communications 24 October 2015 Pages: 595 - 599