Russian Journal of Ecology, 1999, V 30, N 2.

On the 275th Anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences 
p. 67

Academician S.S. Shvarts in the History of Modern Ecology
V. N. Bol'shakov and L. N. Dobrinskii 
p. 68  

The Concept of Ecology: Analysis of Definitions
G. S. Rozenberg 
p. 73  

Radioecological Studies in Russia
I. V. Molchanova and V. N. Pozolotina 
p. 82  

Biotic Control of the Environment
V. V. Gorshkov , V. G. Gorshkov , V. I. Danilov-Danil'yan , K. S.
Losev , and A. M. Makar'eva 
p. 87  

Fitness or Biotic Regulation?
F. V. Kryazhimskii 
p. 94  

Age Structure of Herbaceous Plant Populations under Stress (an Example of
Crepis tectorum L.)
M. R. Trubina and A. K. Makhnev 
p. 97  

The Holocene Dynamics of Vegetation and the Upper Forest Limit in the Polar
Urals
V. L. Koshkarova , L. V. Karpenko , and L. A. Orlova 
p. 102
 

On Wetlands and Their Classification: An Example from the Middle Volga
Region
V. G. Papchenkov 
p. 107  

Dimensional and Age Structure of Populations of Epiphytic Lichen Hypogymnia
physodes (L.) Nyl.
under Conditions of Atmospheric Pollution
I. N. Mikhailova and E. L. Vorobeichik 
p. 111  

Rodent Communities of the Northern Urals
K. I. Berdyugin 
p. 119  


Short Communications

Comparison of Biodiversity of Herbaceous Plants in Tundra Communities of
the Yamal Peninsula
N. I. Andreyashkina and N. V. Peshkova 
p. 126  

Feeding of Otter (Lutra lutra L.) in Summer and Autumn in the Northwestern
Okhotsk Region
E. A. Dubinin 
p. 130  

The Effect of Predation by Nucella (Thais) heyseana
on Population of Japanese Scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis (Jay)
D. D. Gabaev and N. K. Kolotukhina 
p. 133  


Book Reviews

I.A. Shilov, Ecology, Moscow: Vysshaya Shkola, 1997 
p. 136

Soil, City, and Ecology, G.V. Dobrovol'skii, Ed., Moscow: Foundation
"Towards Economic Literacy," 1997 
p. 138