Dynamics of Brown Bear Range and Status of Isolated Populations in European Russia, Western Siberia and Adjacent Countries

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor E. Chestin

Author(s):  
Zinaida V. Pushina ◽  
Galina V. Stepanova ◽  
Ekaterina L. Grundan

Zoya Ilyinichna Glezer is the largest Russian micropaleontologist, a specialist in siliceous microfossils — Cenozoic diatoms and silicoflagellates. Since the 1960s, she systematically studied Paleogene siliceous microfossils from various regions of the country and therefore was an indispensable participant in the development of unified stratigraphic schemes for Paleogene siliceous plankton of various regions of the USSR. She made a great contribution to the creation of the newest Paleogene schemes in the south of European Russia and Western Siberia, to the correlations of the Paleogene deposits of the Kara Sea.



2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Rumiantsev ◽  
S. M. Malkhazova ◽  
N. B. Leonova ◽  
M. S. Soldatov


Author(s):  
I.A. Eryomin ◽  

The article deals with issues of the process of railway transport functioning in Western Siberia during World War I and its role in the transportation of food for the armed forces and the population of large industrial centers of European Russia. The potential of railway transport in the region in the period under review is characterized. The stages of using the regional railway transport for the delivery of goods for military needs are identified. The reasons for the crisis in railway transport and its consequences for the supply of food to the military and civilian population are analyzed.



Author(s):  
N. V. Ivanova ◽  
O. Y. Tutеnkov

On the territory of the south-east of Western Siberia (Tomsk Region), the features of the species biology are analyzed: abundance, dendroactivity, biotopic confinement, the device of a dens. Scuffs and scraps of bark left by the bear are marked on fir - 80 % and cedar -20 %. Bears were marked mainly by trees that are in the edge of the forest stand along the fringes, forest roads, winter roads and quarter walkways, animal paths. Traces of bear activity located at a height of 156 cm to 242 cm indicate the manifestation of food, comfortable and marking dendroactivity. The burlogs are confined to hard-to-reach places - forest heaps, cuttings, found in coniferous forests eaten by silkworms, on old garbage. The bergs are located beneath the roots of large trees: birches, cedar, less often under fallen trees, ovaries and fallen trees of cedar, aspen. The exit from the den is mainly directed to the south. The internal dimensions of the den often vary: length from 150 to 350 cm, height - 80-215 cm, width - 130-300 cm. In the litter - grass (33.3 %), moss (21.6 %), leaves (17, 6 %), branches (9.8 %), needles (7.8 %).



2015 ◽  
Vol 462 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. I. Moiseenko ◽  
N. A. Gashkina ◽  
M. I. Dinu ◽  
T. A. Kremleva


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Philippov ◽  
Aleksandra Komarova

The data paper contains the authors’ materials on the diversity of macrophytes, macroscopic plants regardless of their taxonomic position, in rivers and streams of East European Russia and Western Siberia. These data, collected on 247 rivers and 32 streams in 13 administrative regions of the Russian Federation, were provided as an occurrence dataset presented in the form of GBIF-mediated data. The main portion of the data was obtained in water objects of the Vologda Region (5201 occurrences). In addition, occurrences from the Arkhangelsk Region (347 occurrences), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (159), Yaroslavl Region (132), Novgorod Region (97), Kostroma Region (41), Republic of Karelia (31), Sverdlovsk Region (29), Komi Republic (28), Orenburg Region (26), Chelyabinsk Region (22), Voronezh Region (22) and Tyumen Region (18) were given. The studies were carried out mainly in the southern and middle taiga and, to a lesser extent, in the northern taiga and the forest-steppe. The analysed watercourses belong to five drainage basins: the Azov Sea, the Baltic Sea, the White Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Kara Sea. The dataset contains materials on the diversity of Plantae (6094 occurrences) and Chromista (59 occurrences). This paper, in a standardised form, summarises mostly unpublished materials on the biodiversity of lotic ecosystems. The paper summarises the data obtained in long-term studies of phytodiversity in a range of rivers and streams of East European Russia and, fragmentarily, Western Siberia. A total of 6153 occurrences were included in the dataset. According to the GBIF taxonomic backbone, the dataset comprises 292 taxa, including 280 lower-rank taxa (species, subspecies, varieties) and 12 taxa identified to the genus level. All the occurrences are published openly through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) for the first time. Most of the data were stored in field diaries and, thus, by adding the data in GBIF, we believe that other researchers could benefit from it.



2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
ML McLellan ◽  
BN McLellan ◽  
R Sollmann ◽  
Heiko Wittmer

Identifying mechanisms of population change is fundamental for conserving small and declining populations and determining effective management strategies. Few studies, however, have measured the demographic components of population change for small populations of mammals (<50 individuals). We estimated vital rates and trends in two adjacent but genetically distinct, threatened brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations in British Columbia, Canada, following the cessation of hunting. One population had approximately 45 resident bears but had some genetic and geographic connectivity to neighboring populations, while the other population had <25 individuals and was isolated. We estimated population-specific vital rates by monitoring survival and reproduction of telemetered female bears and their dependent offspring from 2005 to 2018. In the larger, connected population, independent female survival was 1.00 (95% CI: 0.96–1.00) and the survival of cubs in their first year was 0.85 (95% CI: 0.62–0.95). In the smaller, isolated population, independent female survival was 0.81 (95% CI: 0.64–0.93) and first-year cub survival was 0.33 (95% CI: 0.11–0.67). Reproductive rates did not differ between populations. The large differences in age-specific survival estimates resulted in a projected population increase in the larger population (λ = 1.09; 95% CI: 1.04–1.13) and population decrease in the smaller population (λ = 0.84; 95% CI: 0.72–0.95). Low female survival in the smaller population was the result of both continued human-caused mortality and an unusually high rate of natural mortality. Low cub survival may have been due to inbreeding and the loss of genetic diversity common in small populations, or to limited resources. In a systematic literature review, we compared our population trend estimates with those reported for other small populations (<300 individuals) of brown bears. Results suggest that once brown bear populations become small and isolated, populations rarely increase and, even with intensive management, recovery remains challenging.



2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Evangeliou ◽  
Vladimir P. Shevchenko ◽  
Karl Espen Yttri ◽  
Sabine Eckhardt ◽  
Espen Sollum ◽  
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