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Post‐Soviet fire and grazing regimes govern the abundance of a key ecosystem engineer on the Eurasian steppe, the yellow ground squirrel Spermophilus fulvus

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 395-408, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim Grazing intensity and fire patterns across the Eurasian steppes have changed dramatically over the past decades due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and Kazakhstan is now a global fire hotspot. The implications of these changes for ecosystem functioning are largely unclear.
Alyona Koshkina, Martin Freitag, Irina Grigoryeva, Norbert Hölzel, Ingrid Stirnemann, Frederike Velbert, Johannes Kamp   +6 more
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Impacts of Variations in Caspian Sea Surface Area on Catchment‐Scale and Large‐Scale Climate

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 126, Issue 18, 27 September 2021., 2021
Abstract The Caspian Sea (CS) is the largest inland lake in the world. Large variations in sea level and surface area occurred in the past and are projected for the future. The potential impacts on regional and large‐scale hydroclimate are not well understood.
Sifan A. Koriche, Sri D. Nandini‐Weiss, Matthias Prange, Joy S. Singarayer, Klaus Arpe, Hannah L. Cloke, Michael Schulz, Pepijn Bakker, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Michael Coe   +9 more
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Measurements and Approximations for Submicron‐Aerosol Size Distribution Functions

Earth and Space Science, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2021., 2021
Abstract Results of field measurements taken in the near‐Caspian (2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 years) and near‐Aral sea (1998) deserts under the conditions of weak winds (almost in the absence of saltation processes) and strong heating of the land surface are given. These results show that the fine mineral dust aerosol (0.1–1 m)
O. G. Chkhetiani, E. B. Gledzer, N. V. Vazaeva   +2 more
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Post‐Soviet shifts in grazing and fire regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe

Global Change Biology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 388-401, January 2021., 2021
Post‐Soviet declines in livestock grazing on the Kazakh steppe corresponded to increases in grassland fires across large areas, causing the disturbance regime to shift from grazer to fire control. We show that grazing and fire each result in different plant functional compositions, which suggests widespread increases in grass cover and associated ...
Martin Freitag, Johannes Kamp, Andrey Dara, Tobias Kuemmerle, Tatyana V. Sidorova, Ingrid A. Stirnemann, Frederike Velbert, Norbert Hölzel   +7 more
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Population and distribution of beavers Castor fiber and Castor canadensis in Eurasia

Mammal Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 1-24, January 2021., 2021
A century ago, overhunting had reduced Eurasian beaver Castor fiber populations to c. 1200 animals in scattered refugia from France to Mongolia. Reintroductions and natural spread have since restored beavers to wide areas of their original range. The population has more than tripled since the first modern estimate in 1998, to c. 1.5 million.
Duncan J. Halley, Alexander P. Saveljev, Frank Rosell   +2 more
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Sources in the History of Kalmykia: Problems and Solution Approaches

Монголоведение, 2022
Introduction. The article examines issues of accumulation, formation, preservation, usage arrangements, and peculiarities of historical sources in accordance with the adopted periodization of Kalmykia’s history by geographic and chronological parameters (the Central Asian and European periods, respectively) from earliest to modern times.
Konstantin N. Maksimov, Roza B. Togaeva
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Settlements of Individual Peasants in Kalmykia, 1930–1991

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The article examines the history of emergence and development of unauthorized settlements of individual peasants in the territory of Kalmykia between 1930 and 1991.
Sergey S. Belousov
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Kalmykia in the Space of Russian-Mongolian Relations in the 20th – Early 21st Centuries: Historical and Cultural Aspect

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2021
Introduction This article within the framework of Russian-Mongolian relations examines the regional aspect of cultural cooperation between Mongolia and Kalmykia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
Nina Ochirova, Nadmidyn Sukhebaatar
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First Secretaries of Kalmykia Komsomol Committee: 1921–1991

Oriental Studies, 2023
The article deals with the history of Kalmykia Komsomol Committee in 1921–1991. Goals. The paper aims to investigate personnel policies towards First Secretaries of Kalmykia Committee of the RKSM/VLKSM between 1921 and 1991. Materials and methods.
Baatr A. Okonov
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ПРОРЫВ (новые грани истории Великой Отечественной Войны в Калмыкии)

Oriental Studies, 2018
In this article analyzed the historiography on the history of Kalmykia during wartime, including K.N.Maksimov's monography «The Great Patriotic War: Kalmykia and the Kalmyks» (М.: Nauka 2007).
Yuli Ochirovich Oglaev
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