Russian Steppes

Torn, M. S., Lapenis, A. G., Timofeev, A., Fischer, M. L., Babikov, B. V., and Harden, J. W. (2002). Organic carbon and carbon isotopes in modern and 100-year-old-soil archives of the Russian steppe. Global Change Biol. 8(10), 941-953. 

Sunderland, Willard. 2004. Taming the Wild Field Colonization and Empire in the Russian Steppe. Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press. 

Hacskaylo states further that attempts to establish trees that normally possess ectotrophic mycorrhizae in some of those areas (where the fungi were absent) have failed time and time again. Some dramatic results have been recorded from introduction of mycorrhizal fungi in Australia, parts of Africa, the Russian Steppes, the Caribbean Islands, and in our own midwestern prairies.As mycorrhizal fungi became estab-... 

The environment of the Asian crucible was not to remain benign. An Ice Age made the hyperborean homeland of the Asian Homo Sapien (Sapien) uninhabitable twenty eight thousand years ago. The white skinned peoples departed south to the Russian Steppes. By twenty thousand years ago, they moved into Europe and eliminated the... 

Indo-European Kurgan (or Barrow) people crossed into Europe above the Black Sea in about 4250BCE. They traveled on horses from the Russian Steppes west of the Ural Mountains and followed the Danube into Europe, razing relatively peaceful agrarian cultures everywhere they went. The Kurgan people finally reached Ireland from Britain in about 1700BCE. 

In 1815 he went back to Dorpat, passed the pharmacy examinations at the University, and returned to the St. Petersburg apothecary. His study of the natural sciences having awakened in him a desire to study Nature at first hand, he went to Saratov in 1817 as provisor of a pharmacy so that he might spend his leisure hours investigating the flora and fauna of die Volga steppes, or prairies, in eastern Russia. The results of this ten-year research were published in the Russian journals. 

With respect to its area and the sea level height, the Early Chaudian sea did not exceed the present-day Black Sea basin. It was definitely not connected with the Mediterranean Sea and, probably, not with the Caspian Sea the latter suggestion may be inferred from the absence of Caspian mollusks in the Lower Chaudian deposits. Presumably, the climate of this epoch, which coincided with the first Pleistocene cooling over the Russian Plain, was cold open steppe landscapes existed in coastal lowlands and cold steppes were developed in the northern regions. 

On the other hand, the abundant silicon powder formation was monitored in Podsoluvisols and Phaerozems at 0.5-2.0 m depth in Forest Steppe Ecosystems of Central Russian Plain, Sonth Siberia, Amnr River valley, and Manjury region of China. In this case, the most reasonable explanation is connected with the deposition of silicon from glacial melting waters after the glaciation period. 

Lopez TA, Cid MS, BiancMnr ML (1999) Biochemistry of hemlock (Conium maculatum L.) alkaloids and their acute and chronic toxicity in livestock. A review. Toxicon 37(6) 841-865 Lugmanova MR, Muzafarov AM, Mtidiailenko OI, Fedorov N1 (2007) Results revealing alkaloid-bearing species in the flora of the mountain-forest-steppe zones in the southern Urals. Vestnik Bashkirskogo Universiteta (Bashkirsk University) (1) (in Russian)... 

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