Introduction. Since vectors of natural resources, construction and infrastructure development across the vast Soviet territories (including that Kazakh SSR) were determined by geographical aspects correctional labor camps’ territorial organization, it was factor proved crucial to shaping camps system proper. So, an insight into experiences Prorva (Astrakhan) Correctional Labor Camp is certain i...

Patterns of serum biochemical parameters vary among horse breeds. The objective of the present study was to compare serum lipoproteins of Iranian Caspian ponies with those of other horses (Arabs and Thoroughbreds) in the Iranian region. Serum lipoprotein values were determined by agar-agarose gel electrophoresis and measured by scan densitometry. Moreover, serum triglyceride and cholesterol con...

INTRODUCTION The sturgeons of the Caspian Sea are considered highly valuable species. The Caspian Sea has traditionally been regarded as the sea of sturgeon since it produces more than 90 percent of the world’s caviar. Despite a remarkable decline of sturgeon numbers over recent years, the Caspian Sea still continues to be of considerable importance in sturgeon fisheries. In 1997, the global la...

Amphipod fauna of Moldova remains one of the least known in Europe with the most recent data upon species distribution being already almost 50 years old. In this paper, we summarize the knowledge upon the distribution of amphipods in Moldovan inland waters based on literature survey combined with our new original data and present a comprehensive checklist of recorded amphipod species. The new o...

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The assessment of microbial diversity and distribution is a major concern in environmental microbiology. There are two general approaches for measuring community diversity: quantitative measures, which use the abundance of each taxon, and qualitative measures, which use only the presence/absence of data. Quantitative measures are ideally suited to revealing community differences that are due to...

The Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral Seas, remnants of the intracontinental Paratethys basin, are home to a spectacular diversity of crustaceans. This study examines the past history of the Ponto-Caspian fauna through comparative phylogeographical studies on both benthic and planktonic taxa, based on an examination of nucleotide diversity in the mitochondrial, cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) ...

of the Past: A Mixed Spatially Correlated Multinomial Logit Model Approach for the Analysis of the Public Land Survey Data Eun-Hye Yoo, Bruce W. Hoagland, Guofeng Cao, Todd Fagin Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory and Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, Department of...

This study is a bibliometric analysis of a highly complex research discipline, namely geography, in order to identify the most used and cited publication channels, to reveal publication strategies, and to analyse the discipline’s coverage in the three main data sources for citation analyses: Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. The results show very heterogeneous and individual publicatio...