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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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Comprehensive Immunological Study of Persons Vaccinated with Live Plague Vaccine Living on the Territory of the Pre-Caspian Sand Foci of the Plague in the Republic of Kalmykia

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2018
Relevance. In 2005 International Health Regulations, the plague, is on the list of dangerous infectious diseases that can cause emergency situations of interstate importance.
S. A. Bugorkova, T. N. Shchukovskaya, N. I. Mikishis, S. N. Klyueva, O. M. Kudryavtseva, A. L. Kravtsov, A. Yu. Goncharova, V. A. Kozhevnikov, D. N. Sandzhiev, S. V. Konusheva, S. P. Savchenko, E. S. Bembeeva, S. A. Shcherbakova, V. V. Kutyrev   +13 more
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Svobodnaya Zemlya — Newspaper of German Occupants: Against the Soviets. A Paradigm of Fascist Propaganda to Negate War Goals Revisited

Oriental Studies, 2021
Introduction. The article aims to analyze the newspaper ’Svobodnaya zemlya’ (Free Land), published for a short time (September-December 1942) by German occupying forces in Kalmykia. The newspaper has not been the object of a special study so far.
Konstantin N. Maksimov
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Economic Autonomy of Regions in the New Reality [PDF]

, 2016
The article expands on the concept of new reality (new normal) for Russia, which includes the increased role of individuals and larger economic autonomy of territories in their interaction with the federal center. The rationale is based on the hypothesis
Bochko, V. S.
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IDENTIFICATION OF HLA II CLASS GENE ASSOCIATIONS OF THE MAIN HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX WITH PECULIARITIES OF IMMUNE RESPONSE IN PERSONS VACCINATED WITH LIVE PLAGUE VACCINE IN THE REPUBLIC OF KALMYKIA

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2017
Objective of the study was to determine allelic variants of HLA II class haplotypes in persons living in the Republic of Kalmykia in the territory of Pre-Caspian sandy natural focus of the plague, immunized for epidemic reasons with live plague vaccine ...
O. M. Kudryavtseva, T. N. Shchukovskaya, N. I. Mikshis, S. N. Klyueva, S. A. Bugorkova, D. N. Sandzhiev, S. V. Konusheva, S. P. Savchenko, B. A. Khasykova, S. A. Shcherbakova   +9 more
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Anthropological microcosm of university everyday life in the era of the late USSR (1970s-1980s): towards the formulation of the problem (by the example of the scientific community in the steppe region)

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2022
The study is based on documentation of the late Soviet experience, theoretical generalization and interpretation of empirical data and archival documents. The phenomenon of a university as a set of incarnations of all members of the university community,
E. N. Badmaeva, E. U. Omakaeva
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