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Assessing state of water protection zones of Volga River within Ilyinka village area (Astrakhan region)

open access: yesVESTNIK OF ASTRAKHAN STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SERIES FISHING INDUSTRY, 2021
Anthropogenic pollution of water basins may become a serious threat for ecosystems and human health. Pollutants are transferred through food chains or directly when untreated water is used, released to soil through subsoil waters or during floods.
Ekaterina A. Vasil'eva, I. Melnik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patterns of Freshwater Fish Vulnerability in European Rivers

open access: yesAquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT European rivers are home to more than 600 native freshwater‐dependent fish species, with nearly half of them raising some level of conservation concern. Tackling this decline requires prioritising efforts towards the most vulnerable communities, at a spatial scale aligned with river restoration.
Daniel Mameri   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative riverscape genomics of the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) in glaciated and unglaciated environments

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Periodic glaciation during the Quaternary period shaped the contemporary riverscape and distribution of freshwater fishes in the Mississippi River drainage of central North America.
Jon M. Luiken   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis Explores Diverse Domestic Goose Management Practices in Medieval and Postmedieval Russia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 537-553, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

On the Neolithic Combed Ware Assemblages of the Chuvash Volga Area

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2013
The Neolithic comb-ornamented ceramic ware assemblages discovered in the Chuvash Volga area are analyzed in the article. The general characteristics of this ceramics, including vessel shapes, technological traits, ornamental compositions and patterns is ...
Berezina Natalia S.
doaj   +1 more source

The Kamennodolsk finding: on the question to the Trans-Volga section of the "Magyar Way to the West"

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2022
Belt plate with the image of a musician playing a stringed instrument, originating from the south of the Samara region is examined in the paper. The artifact refers to the piece of the belt sets with «mythological» figural composition, wide spread in ...
Lifanov Nikolay A.
doaj   +1 more source

Do the Wettest Days Occur Together? A Global Analysis on Disentangling Precipitation Intensity From Seasonal Timing

open access: yesEarth and Space Science, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2026.
Abstract Current precipitation analysis focuses on extreme events or total amounts but misses a critical question: when does the majority of precipitation occur during the year? We introduce a framework that separates two fundamental aspects of precipitation patterns: how many of the wettest individual days contribute to annual totals versus what is ...
Saurav Bhattarai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic Momentum and Fertility Responses to Pronatalist Policies: The Case of Ethnic Minorities in Russia

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MATERIALS ON MULTICELLULAR PARASITES FAUNA OF THE RUFFE GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS LINNAEUS, 1758 (PISCES: PERCIDAE) FROM THE SARATOV WATER BASIN

open access: yesРоссийский паразитологический журнал, 2016
Objective of research. Data on the species composition of the fauna of multicellular parasites and the infection rates of the pope ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus Linnaeus, 1758 from Mordovian floodplain of the Saratov reservoir (the middle part) are ...
O. V. Mineeva
doaj  

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