Russian Journal of Biological Invasions

2010, issue № 2

ANNOTATION

The second number of the electronic journal Russian Journal of Biological Invasions represents 11 articles, which consider the questions of introduction and distribution of plants and animals in the regions of Russia, Czechia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Spatial distribution of the Elodea canadensis Mich. in the southern and middle depressions of Baikal Lake on the basis of the data of 2006–2009 is presented in the paper of Kravtsova L.S. etc. The list of the species of alien fishes of ichthyofauna of Czechia was analyzed in the paper of Lusk etc. In the article of Luskova etc. it was shown that the Carassius auratus gibelio was the most successful alien species for invasion in the waters of the Czech Republic. Distribution of alien fish species in the small waterbodies of Balkhash basin was considered in the paper of Mamilov N.Sh., Balabieva G.K. and Koishybaeva G.S. The indices of water-salt metabolism in introduced into the Rybinskoe Reservoir sardelle Clupeonella cultriventris (Clupeiformes, Clupeidae) compared to the aboriginal and marine fish species were given in the article of Martemyanov V.I. and Borisovskaya E.A. In the paper of Morozova O.V. and Borisov M.M., a verbal description and the functional possibilities of the WEB-oriented geoinformation system on alien species of plants of European Russia were presented. About paedomorphic shaping in marine spiders (Pycnogonida) connected with invasion into the Arctic basin, it was written in the paper of Raiskiy A.K. An influence of trophic conditions on biotic interactions under invasion of the new species into communities of Cladocera with the use of simulation models was presented in the article of Semenchenko V.P., Razlutskiy V.I. and Feniova I.Yu. The results of statistical analysis of sampling spatial-temporal distributions of three species of barnacles (Amphibalanus improvisus, A. amphitrite, A. eburneus) from 1935 to 2000 on the shelf of Japan were shown in the paper of Chetyrbotskiy A.N., Zvyagintsev A.Yu., and Kafanov A.I. The data on alien fish species in Mongolian part of the Selenga River basin were given in the article of Erdenebat Manchin and Dgebuadze Yu.Yu. Modern fauna and quantitative indices of invasive invertebrates in zoobenthos of the upper reaches of the Kuibyshev Reservoir were considered in the paper of Yakovleva A.V. and Yakovlev V.A.