The ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of southern Kuril Islands, Russia [PDF]
We compiled a list of the ground beetles that have been confirmed to occur to date in the southern Kuril Islands, Russian Far East. The list includes 168 species, all of which are known from Kunashir Island and the species richness on the remaining ...
Kirill Makarov, Yuri Sundukov
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First record of Orobdella kawakatsuorum (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Erpobdelliformes) from Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands [PDF]
Specimens of the genus Orobdella Oka, 1895 from Kunashir Island, the Kuril Islands, are identified as Orobdella kawakatsuorum Richardson, 1975. Mitochondrial tRNALeu and ND1 data confirm the species identification of the Kunashir specimens.
Takafumi Nakano, Konstantin Gongalsky
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Geographic Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea along the Kuril Islands in the Western Subarctic Pacific [PDF]
Community composition and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the ocean were affected by different physicochemical conditions, but their responses to physical barriers (such as a chain of islands) were largely unknown.
Hongmei Jing +5 more
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Microbial diversity of hot springs of the Kuril Islands [PDF]
The Kuril Islands are located in the Far-East of Russia and enriched with shallow and terrestrial hot springs. Prokaryotic diversity of Kuril geothermal environments has been studied fragmentarily and mainly by culture-dependent methods. We performed the
Alina I. Karaseva +4 more
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Identifying earthworms (Oligochaeta, Megadrili) of the Southern Kuril Islands using DNA barcodes [PDF]
he Kuril Islands are a volcanic archipelago located between Hokkaido and Kamchatka. In this study we investigated earthworm fauna of three of the Southern Kuril Islands, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Yuri, using both morphological analysis and DNA barcoding ...
Shekhovtsov, S. V. +4 more
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The results of trawl surveys in the Sea of Okhotsk and in the Pacific waters of Kuril Islands at the R/V «Professor Kaganovskii» in the winter 2021 are analyzed.
A. N. Starovoitov +2 more
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Seismicity of the South Far East of Russia in 2020 [PDF]
The paper presents an overview of the seismicity of the southern part of the Russian Far East for 2020: the Amur–Primorye region, Sakhalin and Kuril-Okhotsk regions.
Dmitry A. Safonov, Tatyana A. Fokina
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A METHOD FOR THE ESTIMATION OF TSUNAMI RISK ALONG RUSSIA’s FAR EAST [PDF]
A simplified method was developed for estimating the tsunami risk for a coast for possible events having recurrence periods of 50 and 100 years. The method is based on readily available seismic data and the calculation of magnitudes of events with ...
G.V. Shevchenko +2 more
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The ground beetles of the tribus Trechini (Carabidae) on the Southern Kuril Islands
This article is devoted to the inventory of ground beetles of the tribe Trechini on the southern Kuril Islands. Until the beginning of the XXI century, only one species of tribe was noted from the islands.
Yuri N. Sundukov, Kirill V. Makarov
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The Paramushir Mw = 7.4 earthquake of March 25, 2020
The strong Mw = 7.4 earthquake occurred on March 25, 2020 in the region of Northern Kuril Islands, with its epicenter on the ocean side of the Kuril-Kamchatka deep-water trench, to the east from its axis. The earthquake was felt on all the Kuril Islands,
D.V. Chebrov +10 more
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