Contents

Arid Ecosystems

Vol. 7, No. 1, 2017

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Arid Ecosystems ISSN 2079-0961.

Systematic Study of Arid Territories

Biological Activity of Anthropogenic Mountain Soils of Medieval Agricultural Terraces of Mountainous Dagestan

N. N. Kashirskaya, E. V. Chernisheva, A. K. Khodzaeva, and A. V. Borisov p. 1  abstract

Components of C and N Cycles in Natural and Anthropogenic Ecosystems of SemiDeserts of the Northern Caspian Area

N. Yu. Kulakova, B. D. Abaturov, and Yu. D. Nukhimovskaya p. 11  abstract

The Impact of Droughts on the Mineralization of Reservoirs in Northeastern Brazil

Yu. S. Dacenko p. 19  abstract

Applied Problems of Arid Lands Development

Plant Communities of the Lower Reaches of the Volga River on Soils with Strongly Seasonal Dynamics of Salinization

V. B. Golub, A. V. Chuvashov, V. V. Bondareva, and L. F. Nikolaichuk p. 23  abstract

Phytocenotic Characteristic of the Achnatherum splendens (Trin.) Nevski Communities of Western Transbaikalia

M. G. Merkusheva, A. L. Baldanova, L. N. Boloneva, and I. N. Lavrent’eva p. 31  abstract

Analysis of the Current Status of Populations of Rare Plant Species of Nature Monument Troicki Chalk Mountains (Orenburg Region)

O. A. Karimova, L. M. Abramova, and Ya. M. Golovanov p. 41  abstract

Distribution and Ecological Features of Peganum harmala L. in the Environs of Lake Baskunchak (Astrakhan Oblast)

K. A. Grebennikov p. 49  abstract

History of Research on Biodiversity in Crimean Hypersaline Waters

E. V. Anufriieva, N. V. Shadrin, and S. N. Shadrina p. 52  abstract

Topical and Trophic Structure of Midsummer Zooplankton in Saline Rivers in the Elton Lake Basin

V. I. Lazareva p. 59  abstract

New Record of Rhinopoma cystops Thomas, 1903 (Mammalia, Chiroptera) in Arid Southwestern Sahara of Algeria

M. Ahmim and R. Tahri p. 69  abstract