The preservation of biodiversity of rare and endangered plant species in the Volgograd regional botanical garden
This article focuses on the activity of the Volgograd regional botanical garden aimed at the creation of a collection of rare and endangered species, introduction, and the development of measures for introduction of promising species into the culture. The authors emphasize the role of seed fund in introduction studies and gene pool preservation, as well as the efficiency of cloned microreproduction of rare species.
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The preservation of rare plant species in and in vitro genetic collection
... traditional ex situ plant conservation methods, the creation of gene banks in vitro is increasing in importance. The research and methodological framework for the creation and conservation of rare and valuable plant seed and meristem gene banks is being developed. In the creation of gene banks, special attention is paid to plant species representativeness and genetic stability preservation. Most of the plant material is stored in conditions of decelerated growth.
1. Андреев Л. Н., Горбунов ...
New data on air and soil temperature in vegetation communities of the Karakum Desert
This article offers data on the temperature of surface air and soils in the aeration zone. The author comes to the conclusion that the soil temperature in the Karakum desert is favourable for the development of tree and shrubbery species.
1. Гунин П. Д., Дарымов В. Я., Вейисов С. Ландшафтная характеристика Репетекского заповедника // Опыт изучения и освоения ...
Symmetry and asymmetry of higher education in the conditions of globalisation
This article deals with the territorial features of higher education and the development of poles in world education as one of the problems of asymmetry in global economy.
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2. Азиатско-Тихоокеанское экономическое ...
Geographical factors as a principle of strategic planning of municipal entities
This articles deals with the generally accepted principles that should be used by the developers of strategic documents as guidelines. The author pays particular attention to the geographical factors explaining their importance for the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad region and comes to the conclusion that strategic planning of the ...
Geoecological indicators for sustainable regional development
This article discusses the issue of sustainable development of Russian territories. Using the domain-indicator approach to the Kaliningrad region, the author developed a set of geo-ecological indicators focusing on the improvement of ecological situation in the region.
1. Бобылев С. Н. Индикаторы ...
Seasonal Larva Number Dynamics and Settlement of Juvenile Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha Pallas) in the Prybrezhny Quarry (the Kaliningrad region)
The article analyses the seasonal dynamics of zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha Pallas), larva length composition and juvenile recruitment in perennial natural colonies in the Prybrezhny Querry (the Kaliningrad region). In 2002, zebra mussel larvae were found in plankton from the second part of July till the end of August. The peaks of abundance were registered in the middle of July and in the beginning of August. The larvae accounted for 33% of the total zooplankton abundance. The size of larvae...
Regional-geographic approach to «tourist-recreational cluster»
The notion of «tourist-recreational cluster» is viewed as a new object of territorial organization of tourism adapted to modern conditions.The elements and features of tourist cluster, its structure, stages of establishment and ways of development are identified. The article also provides examples of the Kaliningrad region.
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Алаев Э.
Б.
Социально-экономическая география: понятийно-терминологический словарь....
The influence of center-periphery development on the alteration of CIS territorial structure of industry
The article explores the aspects of interaction between centre and periphery at various levels. The article reveals some factors which cause these stages changing and corresponding spatial processes. The article also describes the features of the contemporary stage of structural changes of the Commonwealth of Independent State's industry.
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Методические
рекомендации по геохимической оценке загрязненных территорий городов...
The conflicts of woodland management and the methods of these conflicts resolution in the Kaliningrad Region
The article examines the conflict situations, caused by the anthropogenic transformation of forest landscapes in some areas of the Kaliningrad region. The ways of timber exploitation optimization, including the possibilities of the development of forest bee-keeping are examined.
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Доклад
о состоянии и об охране окружающей среды Калининградской области в 2003 году. Калининград: Янтар. сказ,...
Strategic planning of small towns development in the Kaliningrad region
The article examines some geographical features of strategic planning of small cities in the Kaliningrad region. The article reveals institutional and secondary measures for perfection of strategy and improvements of investment attractiveness of small towns in the Kaliningrad region.
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проблемы развития полусредних городов Калининградской области / под ред. Г.
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The evaluation of perspectives of labour supply in the Kaliningrad region
Limited reproduction of labour supply in the Kaliningrad region, determined by demographic situation, causes the necessity to attract
more immigrants and requires innovative development of economics.
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Демографический
ежегодник: 2007 / Территориальный орган Федеральной службы госстатистики по Калининградской области. Калининград,...
The traces of Holocene events in the spore and pollen spectra of peat deposits in the southern part of the Kaliningrad Region
... expansion in the sub-Boreal and sub-Atlantic affected the species composition of broadleaved forests; this period also saw the proliferation of broadleaved-coniferous forests. Pollen diagram was divided into 8 local pollen assemblage zones (LPAZ). The development of the bog was traced by means of peat macroremnants analysis.
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область. Очерки природы / Д.
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А. Брюханов, В.
Д. Ваулина [и др....
Important Staging Sites of Geese and Swans in the Cross-Border Wetland Complex of the Neman Delta
... by the global climate change, changes of the migratory flyways of certain species (particularly Greater White-fronted Goose) and by human impact.
In order to preserve the wetland complex of utmost importance for migrating birds, it is necessary to develop the cross border Ramsar territory and to grant the corresponding status to the Russian part of the Neman delta.
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Характеристика весенней миграции гусей на ...
The botanic garden of the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia as a centre of environmental education in the Kaliningrad region
... Immanuel Kant State University of Russia. The authors argue that the Botanic garden has favourable opportunities for promoting environmental culture and spreading environmental awareness in different groups of population. An education programme was developed and empirically grounded; effective means, forms and methods of raising environmental awareness and promoting environmental culture in preschool and primary school students were determined alongside the determination of the peculiarities of
...
Economic globalization, production internationalization, creation of international production networks
The article is devoted to economic globalization that is considered first of all as the process of formation and development of international production networks. The article shows the differences from the previous production internalization. The specific features of commodity chains and production networks forming in the process of globalization are provided.
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Population Migration as an Evidence of Regional Economic Attraction (through the Example of the Pskov Region)
... Russian Federation and analyses the population dynamics, natural population increase and migrations on the territory of the present-day Pskov region in the 19th-21st centuries. Special attention is drawn to migration control as a factor of the economic development of the region.
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Социально-демографический портрет районов Псковской области // Псковский регионологический журнал. 2006. ...
Territorial Structure of Eastern Prussia
This article examines the main stages of territorial administration system development in Eastern Prussia in terms of political, economical and social dynamics.
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Немецкий орден. М., 2004.
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Государственное право // Известия и ученые ...
The population structure and the growth of the bivalve mollusc Ruditapes philippinarum in Amur bay (the Sea of Japan)
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The impact of spruce plantations on burozem in the Kaliningrad region
Monodominant 30-50 year old fir plantations develop a specific forest floor and are characterised by general humus accumulation, the qualitative composition of which is, however, subject to degradation, which is revealed in increasing migration ability and the impoverishment in nitrogen. Semi-hydromorphic ...
Earth's Crust Energy: New Approach
The article examines different sources of chemical energy bound in crystals and minerals and its role in metamorphic
processes and the Earth's crust formation. The author justifies the idea of the key role of the solar energy in the formation and development of crust.
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An overview of international environmental education projects in the Kaliningrad region
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Kaliningrad, 2005.
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The reparative treatment of the wounded and injured with multisystem injuries to the tendons and nerves of the upper extremity
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The formation and current state of the urban population of Columba palumbus L. woodpigeon in Kaliningrad
This article traces the development of a specialised urban Woodpigeon population in the city of Kaliningrad and assesses its current condition. The author focuses on certain factors affecting the formation of urban populations.
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Saari L.
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The influence of environmental factors on the main parameters of woodcock (Scolopax rusticola L.) roding in the Kaliningrad region
... куликов (Charadriiformes, Charadrii) в антропогенных ландшафтах Окско-Донской равнины // Зоол. журн.
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Sixth european woodcock and snipe workshop: proc. of intern. Symposium of the Wetlands intern. Woodcock and snipe specialist ...
The comparative characteristics of Blackbird nest materials from natural and anthropogenic landscapes of the Kaliningrad region
... woodlands, it consists predominantly of twigs and mosses.
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The preadaptive abilities of birds to inhabit urban environments
Anthropogenic environment, affecting various aspects of birds’ lives, triggers adaptive reactions to changeable conditions. These reactions develop on the basis of preadaptations that create prerequisites for new adaptations. The species that have adaptive abilities can adjust to urban environments. Anthropogenic landscapes are mainly inhabited by species with considerable
ecological flexibility,...
An analysis of exisitng research on the entomofauna of the Kaliningrad region
This article estimates the number of insect species on the territory of the Kaliningrad region by order. The authors estimate the number of species at 9—13,1 thousand. The article addresses the development of regional entomofauna and entomology studies. The current level of research on biodiversity in the region is considered as insufficient.
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Конвенция
о биологическом разнообразии: программа ...
The development of ideas about the formation of Arctic sea fauna and its biogeographical connections
The author arrives at a conclusion on the vast biogeographical connections of the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific faunas in the Phanerozoic faunas on the basis of the comparative analysis of modern and ancient communities of invertebrates and the changes in their habitats.
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The assessment of the groundwater resource sustainability in the European part of Russia
... of the country ranging from a federal district or a region to an artesian basin. The assessment was carried out with the help of the system of indicators and indexes of groundwater resource sustainability under the influence of groundwater withdrawal developed by the author.
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Белоусова А.
П.
Оценка устойчивости ресурсов подземных вод пограничных регионов России к антропогенной нагрузке // Водоочистка,...
The geochronology of the Holocene vegetation deve¬lopment in the South-east Baltic region (based on the results of a paleogeographic study)
This article presents the results a of complex palaeogeographical study of Velikoye peat bog (the Šešupė River basin, the Kaliningrad region). The pollen analysis accompanied by radiocarbon dating, makes it possible to reconstruct the vegetation development, on the basis of which the climate changes in the South-east Baltic region over the Atlantic-Subatlantic periods of the Holocene can be tracked.
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Дружинина О.
А.
Финальный палеолит Юго-Восточной ...
The identification of the predominant age of the crystalline basement of continental and ocean platforms
This article presents the evidence of the ancient origin of crystalline basement of the platform areas of the Earth developed as a result of global volcanism in the Hadean (more than 4 Ga). In the late Mesozoic-early Cenozoic, another outbreak of volcanism and dehydration of subsoils led to a significant subsidence (8—10 km) of continental masses and the formation ...