Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe by Stephan Kambach, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Gerhard Boenisch, Gianmaria Bonari, Andraž Čarni, Maria Laura Carranza, Alessandro Chiarucci, Milan Chytrý, Jürgen Dengler, Emmanuel Garbolino, Valentin Golub, Behlül Güler, Ute Jandt, Jan Jansen, Anni Jašková, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Jens Kattge, Ilona Knollová, Gabriele Midolo, Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, Remigiusz Pielech, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Solvita Rūsiņa, Jozef Šibík, Zvjezdana Stančić, Angela Stanisci, Jens-Christian Svenning, Sergey Yamalov, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Helge Bruelheide

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Assessment of Shoreline Transformation Rates and Landslide Monitoring on the Bank of Kuibyshev Reservoir (Russia) Using Multi-Source Data by Oleg Yermolaev, Bulat Usmanov, Artur Gafurov, Jean Poesen, Evgeniya Vedeneeva, Fedor Lisetskii, Ionut Cristi Nicu

“…This study focuses on the Kuibyshev reservoir (Volga River basin, Russia)—the largest in Eurasia and the third in the world by area (6150 km²). …”
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Hydroclimatic processes as the primary drivers of the Early Khvalynian transgression of the Caspian Sea: new developments by A. Gelfan, A. Gelfan, A. Panin, A. Panin, A. Kalugin, P. Morozova, V. Semenov, V. Semenov, V. Semenov, A. Sidorchuk, V. Ukraintsev, V. Ukraintsev, K. Ushakov, K. Ushakov

“…Water flow that could form these paleochannels was earlier estimated for the ancient Volga River as 420 km<span class="inline-formula">³</span> yr<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span>, i.e., close to the equilibrium runoff we determined. …”
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EVALUATION OF SCOURING AT PILE-SUPPORTED STRUCTURES CROSSING WATERCOURSES ACCORDING TO RELIABILITY AND INHOMOGENEITY INDICATORS OF GROUNDING FOUNDATIONS by A. K. Alibekov

“…The adequacy of the obtained models was checked on the basis of independent laboratory experiments and full-scale data on the Brazos and Volga rivers. The heterogeneity of the channel bed grounds is accounted for by the diameter of the pavement particles. …”
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A significant contribution of professor V. Ye. Timonov to the construction of seaports by Liubov Soloviova

“…Timonov carried out the first works on the laying of quay-piers from rock body in the Baltic Sea (1887), organized and conducted the first dredging work (1887), explored the mouths of the Dnipro, Don and Volga rivers (1890) and defined the branches of each river for the improvement of navigation, made a draft of the rapids’ parts of the Dnipro and conducted research works on one of the thresholds (1894), researched the coasts of the Pacific ocean to select the location of the Pacific port of Siberian Railway and chose a place for this port (Vladyvostok), investigated the rivers of the Amur region and proposed measures to improve them (1895), etc. …”
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