Summer CO2 evasion from streams and rivers in the Kolyma River basin, north-east Siberia Blaize A. Denfeld, Karen E. Frey, William V. Sobczak, Paul J. Mann & Robert M. Holmes 1 Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 950 Main St. Worcester, MA 01610, USA 2 Department of Biology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA 3 Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods...

The investigation of gases, aerosols, and radiation regime of the atmosphere with regard for their interrelations for typical regions of the earth is one of the most important radiationclimatic problems. Among the typical regions, the zone of boreal forests of moderate latitudes should be separated, which covers the considerable territory of the Eurasian and American continents (including the W...

The diplopod genus Leptoiulus Verhoeff, 1894 is new to the fauna of the Asian part of Russia, due to the discovery of        L. tigirek sp. nov. from the south-western part of the Altai Province, Siberia. A description of the new species and information on its habitats, numbers and locomotor activity as well as comparison with the European Leptoiulus trilineatus (C.L. Koch, 1847) are presented.

PCR assays were used to test adult Ixodes persulcatus ticks from Western Siberia, Russia, for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), and the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) agent. Of the 150 ticks that were studied, 38% were infected with B. burgdorferi, 46% were infected with TBEV, and 8% were infected with the HGE agent. These three pathogens were distrib...