Contents

Arid Ecosystems

Vol. 7, No. 3, 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

Desertification Paradigm: 40 Years of Development and Global Efforts

I. S. Zonn, G. S. Kust and O. V. Andreeva p. 131  abstract

Soil Desiccation as Indicator of Desertification of Forest–Steppe Ecosystems in the Barguzin Depression

V. L. Ubugunov, P. D. Gunin, S. N. Bazha, Yu. I. Drobyshev and V. I. Ubugunova p. 142  abstract

Background Medical–Geographical Assessment of Regions with High Environmental Tourism Potential in the Republic of Kazakhstan

T. V. Dikareva and E. G. Koroleva p. 155  abstract

Applied Problems of Arid Lands Development

The Nature of the Patchiness of Irrigated Soils in the Dry Steppe Zone (on Example of the Svetloyarskaya Irrigation System)

I. N. Gorokhova and E. I. Pankova p. 161  abstract

Searching for Benchmark Soils in the Steppe Zone of the Trans-Ural Plateau to Compile the Red Book of Soils

L. N. Plekhanova p. 171  abstract

Carbon Reserves in Postagrogenic Dry Steppe Soils of Western Transbaikalia

E. O. Chimitdorzhieva p. 178  abstract

Short-Term Exclusion of Degraded Pasture in the Permafrost Zone: Aspects of Soil Microbial Community

A. A. Danilova, G. N. Savvinov, L. D. Gavril’eva, P. P. Danilov, M. I. Ksenofontova and A. A. Petrov p. 184  abstract

Characteristics of Ecological and Faunistic Complex of Soil Nematodes in Dry-Steppe Landscapes in Manych Valley

V. Y. Shmatko and L. P. Il’ina p. 191  abstract

Diversity and Taxonomic Composition of Weeds in Olive Orchards in Tabuk Region, Saudi Arabia

N. A. Al Harbi p. 203  abstract

Analyzing Bedrock Shore Degradation at the Tsimlyansk Reservoir

N. A. Shumova p. 209  abstract