Morphometric features and genesis of the lake basins of Lake Bol’shoe Svyatoe Dedovskoe and Lake Maloe Svyatoe Dedovskoe (Volga Upland, Russia)

Annotated checklist of the leech species diversity in the Maloe More Strait of Lake Baikal, Russia

In this paper, the very first checklist of the freshwater leeches of Maloe More Strait, a special part of Lake Baikal, is presented. It includes 14 free-living and parasitic species, of which four species belong to endemic Baikal genera - two species from Baicalobdella and one species each from Baicaloclepsis and Codonobdella. The checklist highlights six potentially new morphological species r...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

Limnology of Lake Tahoe and Its Upland Watershed

Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins

Benson, L., Currey, D., Yong Lao and Hostetler, S., 1992. Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins between 13,000 and 9000 14C yr B.P.. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 95: 19-32. Recessions of Lakes Lahontan and Bonneville that commenced ~ 13,500 ~4C yr B.P. were interrupted at i> 11,500 14C yr B.P. in the Lahontan basin and ~ 12,200 14C yr B.P. in the Bonneville b...

Urmia Lake desiccation and the signs of local climate changes

The water crisis is one of the important issues in the Middle East countries. Many lakes are ‎drying up and/or facing critical situations, exerting tremendous impacts on the socio-economics ‎of their region. Lake Urmia, in northwestern Iran, currently is facing critical situations and is on ‎the brink of total ‎shrinkage and environmental disaster. This paper investigates the roots of crises ‎t...