Editorial staff

Editor in-Chief: doctor of biology, professor Zalibekov Zalibek Garzhievich, the chairman of Soil Research Department of Dagestan State University, the chief researcher of Institute of Geology of Dagestan Scientific Center of RAS, the honored scientist of Russian Federation and Republic of Dagestan.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: doctor of geography and biology, Kuzmina Zhanna Vadimovna, the head of the Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamics under the Impact of Water Factor of Water Problems Institute of RAS.

Staff Editor: Grinchenko Olga Sergeevna, the researcher of the Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamics under the Impact of Water Factor of Water Problems Institute of RAS.

Editorial Board

1. Doctor of biology, Professor Abaturov Boris Danilovich, the chief researcher of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS

2. Doctor of biology, Professor Breckle Siegmar-Walter, retired researcher (geo-botany, ecology) of the Univ. of Bielefeld (Germany)

3. Doctor of geology and mineralogy, Professor Cherkashin Vasily Ivanovich, the president of the Institute of Geology of Dagestan Scientific Center of RAS

4. Corresponding member of RAS, Chibilev Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, the president of Steppe Institute of Ural Branch of RAS

5. Doctor of geography Dikareva Tatyana Vladimirovna, the assistant professor of the Biogeography Department of Geography Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University

6. Doctor of biology, Dimeeva Liliya Aminovna, the head of the Laboratory of Geobotany of the Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction of Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan

7. Doctor of biology Gongalsky Konstantin Bronislavovich, the senior researcher of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS

8. Doctor of biology, Professor Gunin Petr Dmitrievich (07.07.1942-25.05.2019), head of the Laboratory of Arid Systems Ecology of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS

9. Doctor of geography, Professor Jilili Abduwaili, the vice-president of the Institute of Ecology and Geography of Chinese Academy of Sciences

10. Academician of RAS, Kulik Konstantin Nikolaevich, the president of the Federal Scientific Centre of Agroecology, Complex Melioration and Protective Afforestation of RAS

11. Doctor of biology, Professor Kust German Stanislavovich, the researcher of the Soil Silence Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University

12. Doctor of biology Omarov Kamil Zubairovich, the head of the Laboratory of the Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of Dagestan Scientific Center of RAS

13. Doctor of geography Orlovsky Liah, the senior researcher of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

14. Doctor of biology Rabazanov Nukhadi Ibragimovich, president of the Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of Dagestan Scientific Center RAS

15. Corresponding member of RAS, Shamsutdinov Zebri Shamsutdinovich, the head of the Selection Center of the Federal V.R. Williams Research Center of Forage Production and Agro-ecology

16. Doctor of geography, Professor Tishkov Arkady Aleksandrovich, the vice-president of the Institute of Geography of RAS

17. Doctor of biology, Professor Zinchenko Tatyana Dmitrievna, the head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of RAS

18. Doctor of biology, Professor Zonn Igor Sergeevich, the general director of Engineering Science and Development Center of Water Industry, Melioration and Ecology «Soyuzvodproekt»

Editorial Council

19. Candidate of Biology Asgerova Diana Biybolatovna, the researcher of the Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Dagestan Scientific Center of the RAS

20. Doctor of biology Biarslanov Akhmed Biysoltanovich, the researcher of Soil Department of Biological Faculty of Dagestan State University

21. Doctor of biology Neronov Vladimir Valerievich, the researcher of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS

22. Doctor of biology Shamsutdinov Nariman Zebrievich, the head of the Department of the A.N. Kostyakov All-Union Research Institute of Hydraulic, Engineering and Land Reclamation of RAS

23. Doctor of biology, Professor Rustamov Eldar Anverovich, researcher of the National Desert, Flora and Fauna Institute of Turkmenistan