Russian Journal of Ecology, 1999, V 30, N 5.

The Assessment of Biological Diversity on the Basis of Occurrence
Yu. G. Puzachenko, A. P. Bezdelova, T. A. Vinogradova, and G. M. Aleshchenko
p. 291 

The Biogeochemical Function of Forest in the Land–Ocean System
A. P. Kazankin
p. 301 

Dust Accumulation by Components of Birch Phytocenoses in the Impact Zone 
of Limestone Quarries
O. N. Zubareva, L. N. Skripal’shchikova, and V. D. Perevoznikova
p. 308 

Biomass of Underground Plant Organs in Steppe Phytocenoses of Western 
Transbaikalia
Yu. D. Kharitonov and T. G. Boikov
p. 313 

Physicochemical Forms of Radionuclides from the Chernobyl Fallout in 
Different Types of Forest Litter
L. N. Mikhailovskaya, I. V. Molchanova, and E. N. Karavaeva
p. 317 

Analysis of Dispersal in Populations of Northern Mole-Voles
N. G. Evdokimov
p. 321 

On the Specific Development Pattern of a Clethrionomys rutilus 
Population
N. S. Moskvitina
p. 327 

Competitiveness as an Integral Parameter Characterizing the 
Functional State
of Model Cladoceran Populations under Poisoning Conditions
I. V. Volkov, N. K. Shustova, and I. N. Zalicheva
p. 333 

Differences in the Energetics and Behavior of Two Closely Related 
Gnawing Phyllophagous Insect Species at the Northern Boundary of Their Range
I. A. Bogacheva
p. 338 


Short Communications

Stability of Communities of Hydrobionts and Assessment of 
Their Biological Diversity
under Conditions of Mineral Pollution 
of Waters of Northwestern Karelia
A. R. Khazov, N. M. Kalinkina, and L. I. Vlasova
p. 342 

Changes in the Humus State of Soils Affected by Emissions 
from the Sredneural’skii Copper-Smelting Plant
E. V. Prokopovich and S. Yu. Kaigorodova
p. 344 

Relationship between the Rate of Food Consumption by Larvae 
of Two Malaria Mosquito Species (Diptera; Culicidae) and Their 
Inversed Genotypes
V. A. Burlak, A. K. Sibataev, V. P. Perevozkin, and M. I. Gordeev
p. 348 

Transformation of Landscapes in the Selenga River Delta and 
Changes 
in the Fauna of Birds of Prey
I. V. Fefelov
p. 351 

Influence of Age on the Fecundity of Females and the Sex of Young
Saigas (Saiga tatarica L.)
A. I. Bliznyuk
p. 354 

Influence of Chemical Pollution of Agroecosystems on the 
Frequency of Chromosome Aberrations in Anurans
V. I. Kryukov 
p. 357 

90Sr, 137Cs, and Natural Radionuclides in 
the Ecosystem of a Deep Lake
N. A. Bakunov, O. I. Panasenkova, and V. F. Drichko
p. 361 



Critics and Bibliography


B. V. Vinogradov, Osnovy landshaftnoi ekologii (Principles 
of Landscape Ecology), Moscow: Geos, 1998
B. M. Mirkin
p. 364 



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Southern Kalmyk Republic (Summary of the Interlaboratory Seminar
of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 
Moscow, November 25, 1998)
S. A. Shilova and A. V. Chabovskii
p. 365 

International Conference on the Ecology of Taiga Forests 
(Syktyvkar, September 14–18, 1998)
K. S. Bobkova, V. B. Larin, and Yu. A. Pautov
p. 367