scholarly journals A first assessment of the microbiota of Taurida Cave

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Svetlana Mazina ◽  
Ekaterina Kozlova ◽  
Anna Popkova ◽  
Sergey Kochetkov ◽  
Ramziya Mannapova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Period ◽  
Luminescence Microscopy ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Genus Streptomyces ◽  
Gram Positive Bacteria ◽  
Trichoderma Sp ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Aspergillus Sp ◽  
Biomass Of Microorganisms ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

Caves are considered as ecosystems isolated from the surface in varying degrees. Hypogean habitats are mostly oligotrophic, with discretely distributed nutrients, where chemolithoautotrophic species can be found among the producers. In this case, vital activity is provided due to the nutrients of endogenous genesis. Of particular interest are the cavities, which were completely isolated from the surface impact for a long time. As a consequence, unique landscapes and mineral environments were formed in such cavities. An example is given by Taurida Cave, located on the Crimean Peninsula (Piedmont Crimea) and discovered during the construction of Taurida Highway. Samples of sediments were taken right after opening the cave in July 2018. For the cultivation of bacteria andmicrofungi, standard media, extracts from substrates were used. The number and biomass of microorganisms were determined by luminescence microscopy. Chemical composition of the main and trace elements of the cave deposits samples was determined by XRF WDS spectrometer. As a result, a difference in the number and biomass of microorganisms in different parts of the cave was revealed. The main contribution to the biomass of microorganisms is made by actinomycetes and microfungi. The bacteria were dominated by gram-positive bacteria of the genera Bacillus, Arthrobacter, Micrococcus. Among actinomycetes, species of the genus Streptomyces predominated. The species of microfungi Penicillium chrysogenum, Trichoderma sp., Aspergillus sp. were identified, Penicillium janczewskii dominated. The high abundance and biomass of microorganisms in the substrates of the cave may be related to the summer sampling period.

Dina orientalis sp. nov. —an overlooked new leech (Annelida: Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) species from the Near and Middle East

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2746 (1) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLEMENS GROSSER ◽  
HASKO F. NESEMANN ◽  
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The new species described here has, for a long time, been confused with Dina stschegolewi (Lukin & Epshtein, 1960), a species described from Krym (the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine). Both species are similar in having rows of yellow spots on the dorsal surface. As the latter species had been poorly defined in the past, all yellow spotted specimens of the genus Dina Blanchard, from the area of the Near and Middle East, were attributed to Dina stschegolewi (Rückert 1985, Nesemann 1993, Nesemann & Neubert 1999). Prof. V. M. Epshtein (Wuppertal/Germany, oral communication) suspected that the specimens attributed to Dina stschegolewi by Nesemann (1993) and Nesemann & Neubert (1999) differed from the species from Krym. Furthermore, Grosser & Pešić (2006) mentioned that populations of Dina stschegolewi sensu Nesemann, 1993 most probably belong to a new species.

scholarly journals History and Modern Status of the Black-eared Wheatear, Oenanthe hispanica (L.) (Passeriformes, Muscicapidae), in Ukraine

Zoodiversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
A. N. Tsvelykh
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
Interspecies Hybridization ◽  
Kerch Peninsula ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Modern Status ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

Th e history of research of the Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica (L.) in Ukraine in XIX–XXI centuries is presented. Th e Black-eared Wheatear is now a rare breeding bird in the coastal area of the Crimean peninsula, and a very rare vagrant species on the other territory of Ukraine. Four breeding regions of the Black-eared Wheatear are found in the Crimean peninsula: seacoast between Sudak and Th eodosia cities; neighbourhood of Sevastopol City; Tarkhankut peninsula; Kerch peninsula. Th e fi rst two breeding regions have been known since the middle of XIX century. In the breeding regions, the breeding areas of the Black-eared Wheatear are not constant: the birds almost never nest in a place for a number of years. Oenanthe hispanica breeds in Crimea in the same biotopes as its sibling species, the Pied Wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka, which is essentially more abundant there. Th e breeding of single Black-eared Wheatears with the numerous Pied Wheatears increases their interspecies hybridization, which is rather common on the Crimean peninsula. Th ree out of fi ve individuals of Oenanthe hispanica collected in Crimea and stored in various museums turned out to be hybrids with Oenanthe pleschanka. Th e Black-eared and Pied Wheatears have hybridized in the Crimean peninsula for a long time: the hybrids have been recorded in XX and in XXI centuries. Th e hybrids do not occur in a specifi c breeding region, and can be found in any of those.

Journey as an opening of space: the crimean vacations of the late 19th - the early 20th century (by the example of the family of Dmitriy Burilin, Ivanovo-voznyesensk manufacturer and maecenas)

10.12737/7902 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Денис Докучаев ◽  
Denis Dokuchaev ◽  
Наталья Докучаева ◽  
Natalya Dokuchaeva
Keyword(s):  
Family Education ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First Time ◽  
Favorite Place ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

At the beginning of the nineteenth century journeys to the Crimea had only been coming into fashion among the Russian nobility, and by the end of the century this tendency had spread beyond aristocratic avocations. The Crimea became popular among merchants and manufacturers, philistines and clerks. The article studies the circumstances of the Crimean vacations of the family of Dmitriy Burilin at the turn of the nineteenth — the twentieth century´s. Dmitriy Burilin (1852-1924) was a manufacturer, Maecenas, collector, and founder of a museum in Ivanovo-Voznyesensk. He was a distinguished public figure of the Russian province at the turn of the centuries. His family travelled a lot through the country and abroad. The Crimea was a favorite place of the Burilins´ vacations. While at the very beginning of the 1900s the Crimean peninsula had served as a starting point of their voyages through Southern Europe (by the steamships of the Russian company of trade and steamship in Sevastopol), in the 1910s the Burilins opened the Southern part of the Crimea and stayed there for a long time. The family were coming there for health, to know about ancient and medieval history. Those journeys also served as family education. The Burilins visited Yalta several times, stayed at fashionable hotels of that time — «Metropol» and «Russia». During their vacations in Alupka and Gurzuf they had been treated by the leading doctors of that time. In Feodosiya Dmitriy Burilin had seen the works of Ivan Aivazovsky for the first time. Later he became the worshipper of Aivazovsky´s works and added some of them to his collection. The source base of the research consists of the Burilins´ correspondence, containing in the collection of the Ivanovo state historical museum.

Charophyta of the Crimean Peninsula

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
G. M. Palamar-Mordvintseva
Keyword(s):  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

ANTHROPOGENIC AND ECONOMIC FACTORS OF THE СRIMEAN ECOLOGY

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
N.P. Demchenko ◽  
N.Yu. Polyakova
Keyword(s):  
Business Owners ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The North ◽  
Chemical Release ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Russian Plant ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Town ◽  
Integrated Indicators ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The situation in the ecology of the Crimean Peninsula in recent years was discussed in the article. The analysis of absolute and integrated indicators of the anthropogenic impact showed that the ecological situation remains difficult, and according to some indicators even continues to deteriorate. In summer 2018, the situation had worsened because of the large chemical release of titanium dioxide on the north of the Crimea from the holding pond of a large Russian plant that is situated near the town of Armyansk. This, in turn, led to the contamination of the large territory on the north of the peninsula. This fact indicates insufficient control by officials of the Republic of Crimea over the implementation of the RF laws for environmental protection by business owners of various forms of ownership, especially private ownership, the level of responsibility for the environment of which is very low.

A Middle Palaeolithic bone tool from Crimea (Ukraine)

Antiquity ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (318) ◽  
pp. 843-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Burke ◽  
Francesco d'Errico
Keyword(s):  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Technological Properties ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Bone Tool ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

AbstractA fragment of equid tibia found with a Mousterian assemblage in a rockshelter in the Crimean peninsula is carefully examined. The authors show that it has been knapped like flint to produce a tool probably at a time when stone resources were becoming exhausted. This tool is thus the product of a Neanderthal response to a local need as well as proof that the technological properties of bone were known.

Microbial processes and genesis of methane gas jets in the coastal areas of the Crimean Peninsula

Microbiology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 838-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. V. Malakhova ◽  
T. A. Kanapatskii ◽  
V. N. Egorov ◽  
L. V. Malakhova ◽  
Yu. G. Artemov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Microbial Processes ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Methane Gas ◽  
Gas Jets ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula
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