Published Digest

All-Russian Conference Information Digest dedicated to the memory of A.P. Khokhryakov

Conference to the memory of A.P. Khokhryakov: Digest of All-Rissian Scientific Conference (Magadan, October 28-29, 2008) – Magadan: Noosfera, 2008. – 275p.

Proceedings of the Conference to the memory of Andrei Pavlovich Khokhryakov include a wide spectrum of botanical geographical and ecological problems of the Far East and other regions of Russia in the field of floristics and taxonomy of plants, biomorphology, phenology, productivity of vegetation cover, introduction of the plants, conservation of the plant and animal world, interactions of plants and animals in ecosystems, landscape-climatic peculiarities of the region.

A series of proceedings is dedicated to contribution of A.P. Khpkhryakov to exploration of the plant world and reminiscences of his life and scientific work. For the first time a work by A. P. Khokhryakov On the Role of Phenobiomorphes in Classification of the Life-Forms of Plants is published.

Published Book(2)

Molecular philogeograhy of population of Northern Eurasia according to the data on variability of mitochondrial DNA

M.V. Derenko, B.A. Malyarchuk

Molecular philogeograhy of population of Northern Eurasia according to the data on variability of mitochondrial DNA/ed.-in-chief I.A. Zakharov-Gezekhus. – Magadan:NESC FEB RAS,2010. – 376 p.

Results of a many years study of the authors in the field of molecular philogeography and genetic history of the peoples from Northern Eurasia are generalized in the book. On the basis of data on variability of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) detailed information about the structure of gene pools of the ethnic groups from Northern Eurasia is obtained. Estimations of evolutionary age of philogenetic clusters of mtDNA are given, and conception of colonization history of Northern Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and, besides, chronology of interethnic and interracial interrelations are proposed. Genetic proofs of participation of the most ancient population from Altai-Sayan and Baikal regions of the South Siberia during colonization processes of America are given.

The book is addressed to the specialists in human genetics, population and evolution biology, and everybody who interested in the problems of origin and primary dispersion of a Modern Human.

Published Book

Zelenskaya L. A. Slaty-backed Gull (Larus schistisagus Stejneger, 1884). Magadan: NESC FEB RAS, 2008. 213p. 

Slaty-backed Gulls (Larus schistisagus) are the most numerous of all the large gulls of the Far-Eastern seas of Russia. Data on breeding, feeding, behavior, interactions with predators and association with vegetation at nesting sites, as well as characteristics of urbanized population ecology, are presented mainly according to the results of the author's fieldwork from 1986-2006. Information on taxonomy, hybridization, age-related plumage, distribution, migration and morphometrics is summarized in the text. Comparative analysis is made with corresponding literature. Data are also provided on biotopical preferences, formation and expansion of colonies, nesting biology, and growth and development of chicks. Food composition and characteristics of foraging behavior are described both for free-ranging and roof-nesting urban populations. Data on daily and seasonal activity of the gulls are presented; display behavior during the reproductive period is analyzed. Interrelationships with vegetation at the nesting colonies and with the Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetuspelagicus), for which the Slaty-backed Gull is the primary prey during key phases of the eagles' nesting period are documented. 

For biologists, teachers of zoology and ecology and naturalists. 

Ills. 93. Tables 55. Refs.: 497 titles. 

Key words: Slaty-backed Gull, numbers, distribution, breeding biology, feeding ecology, foraging behavior, displays, habitat distribution, chick growth, adoption. 

Edited by Dr. A. V. Andreev

Reviewer: Dr. V. A. Zubakin, Dr. G. I. Atrashkevich