BACKGROUND The craniometric specificity of the indigenous West Siberian human populations cannot be completely explained by the genetic interactions of the western and eastern Eurasian groups recorded in the archaeology of the area from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. Anthropologists have proposed another probable explanation: contribution to the genetic structure of West Siberian indig...

The range of Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Du Tour) in the flat part Western Siberia occupies a wide strip from forest-steppe zone south to Arctic Circle north, therefore, ecological amplitude its growth covers conditions with different heat and moisture conditions. Optimal for this species is moderately cold humid climate middle taiga. In north area, reproduction are limited by short gro...

The hydrological regime of large meandering rivers the West Siberian Plain in Late Pleniglacial/Late Glacial was reconstructed from hydraulic geometry palaeochannels. main tools for reconstruction were power law relationship between channel bankfull width and mean maximum discharge, taken downstream direction, relationships peak flood discharge contributing basin area. Reconstructed values dail...

Long‐distance migratory species often include multiple breeding populations, with distinct migration routes, wintering areas and annual‐cycle timing. Detailed knowledge on population structure connectivity provides the basis for studies evolution of strategies conservation. Currently, five subspecies Bar‐tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica have been described. However, two apparently separate areas...

Abstract The total of 257 trees from the ten natural Siberian stone pine populations West Plain, Ural Mountains and Kuznetsk Alatau were studied with eight nuclear microsatellite loci. Differentiation population groups indicates possible existence separate refugia in past Urals Alatau. northern Western Siberia characterized by a reduced level genetic diversity, which could be consequence founde...