The Mongolian steppes with a long history of nomadic pastoralism cover large area the Palaearctic steppe biome and are still relatively intact. As livestock number has increased over last two decades, grazing been considered as main reason pasture degradation. However, impact on vegetation dynamics, its interaction climate, is not clear. We reviewed 44 publications in language, covering 109 sit...

Examining characteristics of traditional nomadic herding cultures and traditional sedentary farming cultures, both of which are deeply established in Central Asian history, I contribute to the literature on the foundations and persistence of gender roles in culture. Using a natural experiment resulting from a series of events in Kyrgyzstan during the Soviet rule of Central Asia that exogenously...

Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835), the Asia Minor ground squirrel, is a group-living, diurnal, obligately hibernating marmotine squirrel. It inhabits the steppes and alpine meadows throughout central lowland and eastern highland Anatolia and adjacent Armenia and northwestern Iran. Its preferred elevation appears to range from about 800 to 2,900 m. The species displays sexual dimorphism...

The recent development of paleogenetics has had a large impact on much archaeology. Particularly surprising been the discovery connection between Iberian Peninsula and Eurasian steppes, an unexpected link first stages metallurgy at opposite ends Europe. Recent studies human remains from Copper Bronze Age Spain Portugal have shown significant presence genomes types geneticists attribute to Yamna...

This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field". In this memoir, the author details the evolvement and intellectual progression of her research focusing on wild food plant consumption within a remote community in the high steppes of Central Anatolia during the early Nineties. The author conv...

We analyze a mathematical model of a simple trophic web with two herbivores and one predator. The studied scenarios represent a common practice in the steppes of Argentine Patagonia, where livestock are raised in a semi-wild state, either on the open range or enclosed, coexisting with competitors and predators. We perform numerical simulations of metapopulations assemblages of the system, which...

The redescription of Oribatula elegantissima Balogh and Mahunka, 1965 (Oribatida: Oribatulidae) is presented, based on the material collected from dry soil in steppes Altai Republic, Russia. main morphological traits this species are summarized.

This study aimed at investigating the potential of vegetation indices and precipitation-related variables derived from remote sensing to assess rangeland production in arid environment Moroccan Oriental region identifying challenges linked that particular biome. Vegetation (VIs) Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) computed various aggregation periods were first integrated into a Random Fores...