Russian Journal of Ecology, 2003, V 34, N 5.

The State of Protected Forest Communities in the European
Forest–Steppe Zone of Russia and Prospects for Their Reconstruction:
A Case Study of Specially Protected Areas of Penza Oblast 
A. A. Chistyakova and N. A. Leonova p. 285   

Distribution of Calculated Indices and an Attempt of
Its Biological Interpretation 
Using the Production Characteristics of Grass Communities 
N. V. Peshkova and N. I. Andreyashkina 
p. 292   

On the Formal and Informal Estimates of Floristic Diversity: 
An Example of Pine Forests of the Southern Urals 
V. B. Martynenko and B. M. Mirkin 
p. 298   

The Role of Micromycetes in the Phytotoxicity 
of Crude Oil-Polluted Soils 
S. A. Ilarionov, A. V. Nazarov, and I. G. Kalachnikova 
p. 303   

Analysis of Factors Determining Accumulation of 137Cs by Woody Plants 
S. V. Fesenko, N. V. Sukhova, N. I. Sanzharova, 
S. I. Spiridonov, R. Avila, D. Klein, and E. Lukaus 
p. 309   

Species-Specific Features of Inter- and 
Intrapopulation Variation in the Level 
of Chromosome Instability in Rodents 
V. N. Bol’shakov, E. A. Gileva, and L. E. Yalkovskaya 
p. 314   

Functioning of a Multispecies Haul-out of True Seals (Phocidae) 
in the Oil Production Region on the Shelf of Sakhalin Island 
A. M. Trukhin and S. A. Blokhin 
p. 320   

The Structure of Narrow-Skulled Vole (Microtus gregalis Pall.)
Colonies in Western Siberia 
N. A. Pal’chekh, M. G. Mal’kova, I. V. Kuz’min, and V. V. Yakimenko 
p. 327   

Holarctic Collared Lemmings: Traces of Their Spread as Related
to the History of the Arctic Biota 
N. G. Smirnov and V. B. Fedorov 
p. 332   

Physiological Rearrangements in the Progeny of White Rats
in the Zone of the Chernobyl Accident 
T. Yu. Mizina 
p. 339   

On the Population Structure of the Kamchatka Sable 
E. A. Dubinin and A. S. Valentsev 
p. 344   

Physiological Age of Host Plant Foliage and Survival
of Gypsy Moth Larvae 
V. I. Ponomarev 
p. 350   

Short Communications 


Solving the Ecological Problems of Sand-Coquina Landscapes
in the Eastern Sea of Azov Region by Means of Afforestation 
A. P. Maksimenko 
p. 355   

Arachnids (Arachnidae) in a Spring Wheat Agrocenosis
in Southern Sverdlovsk Oblast 
and the Effect of Treatment with Decis, a Pyrethroid
Insecticide, on Their Populations 
E. A. Bel’skaya and S. L. Esyunin 
p. 359