Species and Communities in Extreme Environments. Festschrift towards the 75th Anniversary and a Laudatio in Honour of Academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov
Golovatch, SI/Makarova, OL/Babenko, AB/Penev, LD (Eds) (2009)
Golovatch, SI/Makarova, OL/Babenko, AB/Penev, LD (Eds) (2009) Species and Communities in Extreme Environments. Festschrift towards the 75th Anniversary and a Laudatio in Honour of Academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov. ISBN 9789546424525, 165x240, 165x240, collection of 21 papers, biography and bibliography of Yurii Ivanovich Chernov, In English. Hardback, 530pp. Price EUR 80.00

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Foreword ECOLOGY OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS The changing, living tundra: a tribute to Yuri Chernov Winter in the life of ants in the Northeast of Asia Millipedes (Diplopoda) in extreme environments Are there many tundra species among Collembola of the tundra belt? Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the tundra zone of Russia Diversity and geographical ranges of Greenland mites (Acari: Oribatida and Mesostigmata) Species diversity of arctic plant communities Biogeographical and ecological patterns of myxomycete assemblages in high-latitude and arid areas Arctic lichenicolous mycota: an invisible diversity Soil microfungi from polar deserts Conservation of terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity of Russian Arctic regions GEOGRAPHY IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH Spatial trends in the taxonomic richness of the Eastern European flora Latitudinal-zonal trends in yeast distribution Moss diversity in Russia: general overview and an analysis of the distribution of dioicous species Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Dzhanybek Research Station, West Kazakhstan: a local fauna in a biogeographical aspect Ground beetles in the Lake Elton region, southern Russia: a case study of a local fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Latitudinal trends in life strategy changes in the Macrolepidoptera of the Urals, Russia Geographical variation in spider assemblages (Arachnida: Aranei) of steppe and steppe-like habitats of the Urals, Russia Nematode assemblages of hair-grass (Deschampsia spp.) microhabitats from polar and alpine deserts in the Arctic and Antarctic URBAN ECOLOGY Communities in extreme natural and anthropogenic conditions: a case study of collembolan taxocoenoses A city as an object for synecological studies: a search for density compensation among birds breeding in urban woodlands A list of the main publications (1958-2008) of Academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov