A new species of Pediciidae, Heterangaeus mongolicus is described from specimens collected during the fieldwork of the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey Project in north-central Mongolia, Tov Aimag (district). Descriptions and illustrations of the distinguishing morphological features are provided. Habitat information is presented. Female ovipositor and larvae of Heterangaeus are described and il...

D. Mao, Z. Wang, L. Li, Z. Miao, W. Ma, C. Song, C. Ren, and M. Jia Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 4888, Shengbei Street, Changchun, Jilin Province 130102, China Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis 46202, USA Jilin Province Water Resource and Hydrop...

There is no approved comparator list in Mongolia. The innovator pharmaceutical product is usually the most logical comparator product for a multisource pharmaceutical product because its quality, safety and efficacy should have been well assessed and documented in premarketing studies and postmarketing monitoring schemes. There are registered 65 products in Mongolia, containing Paracetamol, and...

a Wildlife Conservation Society, Mongolia Program, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia b Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA c Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, and Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany d Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program, Bronx, NY, USA e Smithsonian ...

Mongolia had no reported cases of capripoxvirus disease from 1977 until an outbreak of sheeppox in 2006-2007 and then goatpox in 2008. The two outbreaks occurred in geographically distant areas of Mongolia and, most strikingly, were highly species-specific. The 2006-2007 sheeppox outbreak affected no goats and the 2008 goatpox outbreak affected no sheep despite communal herding. The diseases we...

I propose doing a comparative descriptive project looking at the inclusion of traditional medicine into the modern health system of the five countries I will have visited for extended periods of time during my four undergraduate years. I will have traveled to Mongolia, Mexico, India, China, and South Africa for no less than one month each. I have already completed work in Mongolia and Mexico an...

The semi-private property rights arrangement called the Household Production Responsibility System (HPRS) was started in the early 1980s in Xilingol pasture of Inner Mongolia (China), and stimulated the development of stockbreeding. The grassland has been degrading severely with increasing numbers of livestock. Based on a historical review of property rights regimes in Inner Mongolia and empiri...

Five new species of Berlandina Dalmas, 1922 are described from Mongolia: B. koponeni sp. n. (♂), B. mishenini sp. n. (♂), B. nakonechnyi sp. n. (♂), B. ovtsharenkoi sp. n. (♂♀) and B. yakovlevi sp. n. (♂♀). Nine other species occurring in Mongolia and adjacent Russia, China and Kazakhstan are illustrated: B. caspica Ponomarev, 1979; B. hui Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004; B. nabozhenkoi Ponomarev& Tsve...

The incidence of anthrax, which is caused by Bacillus anthracis, in the human and animal population of Mongolia has increased recently, and control of this infection is a nationwide concern. In this study, 29 isolates obtained from animals and various regions in Mongolia from 2001 to 2007 were analyzed by performing multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for 8 loci (MLVA-8) to un...

Land tenure is to define who hold the land as well as the relationship between tenant and the lord. Most fundamentally tenure and changing tenure is capturing the value of the resource. The nature of the resource and changing relative scarcity are essential to induce or lead evolution of land tenure. Pasture resources have been held in open access and communal tenure for much of the long histor...