Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia [PDF]
World Archaeology, 2019 The Circumpolar North is generally recognized as a challenging environment to inhabit and yet, we know relatively little about how people managed their welfare in these places. Here, we add to the understanding of maritime hunter-gatherers in the subarctic North Pacific through a comparative approach that synthesizes biogeographic and archaeological ...
Ben Fitzhugh +2 more
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Microbial diversity of hot springs of the Kuril Islands [PDF]
BMC MicrobiologyThe 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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The ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of southern Kuril Islands, Russia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 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]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014 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]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 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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Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: A study in complex human ecodynamics [PDF]
Quaternary International, 2016 Ben Fitzhugh +2 more
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Distribution of Summer Zooplankton in the Waters off the Kuril Islands (Northwest Pacific) in Relationship with Environmental Conditions [PDF]
BiologyValentina Kasyan
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Известия ТИНРО, 2022 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]
Геосистемы переходных зон, 2021 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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The ground beetles of the tribus Trechini (Carabidae) on the Southern Kuril Islands
Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2021 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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