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A Damage Assessment of the Bearing Capacity of Frozen Grounds due to Temperature Change and Permafrost Thawing in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation by the Middle of the 21st Century
Changes in the bearing capacity of frozen soils under various scenarios of warming in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) by 2050 are considered. Deformations and destruction of buildings and engi...
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The Characteristics of Bacillus cereus Group Strains Isolated from Permafrost in Yakutia for Assessment of Microbiological Risks during Climate Change
Strains of Bacillus genus were isolated from soil samples in the permafrost region (Yakutia, Russia). The phenotypic characteristics of the strains are given. The analysis of the obtained data made it possible to...
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Geophysical Methods in Geocryological Monitoring
This paper substantiates the necessity of using geophysical methods in geocryological monitoring to study the conditions of permafrost rock occurrence, search for taliks and cryopegs, and determine the physica...
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Open AccessAllelic Polymorphism of Anthrax Pathogenicity Factor Genes as a Means of Estimating Microbiological Risks Associated with Climate Change
Climate change brings new risks of emergence of especially dangerous diseases. The paper reports the possibility of assessing the pathogenic potential of bacteria as demonstrated by studying the allelic polymo...
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Decreased Stability of the Infrastructure of Russia’s Fuel and Energy Complex in the Arctic Because of the Increased Annual Average Temperature of the Surface Layer of the Cryolithozone
The impact of facilities of various branches of Russia’s fuel and energy complex (FEC) on the Arctic permafrost zone and their stability due to climate change and the state of the upper horizons of the permafr...
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The Frost Heaving and Heave Properties of Soils on the Projected Moscow–Kazan Railway
The process of frost heaving during seasonal freezing and other affecting factors on the projected Moscow-Kazan railway are considered. Despite the fact that the region has been extensively developed, the heav...
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Isolation and Identification of Bacteria from an Ice Wedge of the Mamontova Gora Glacial Complex (Central Yakutia)
Analysis of the aerobic heterotrophic component of bacterial communities from samples of poorly studied ancient ice wedge from the Mamontova Gora section (Central Yakutia), was carried out. The abundance of co...
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Phage Particles in Ground Arctic Ice
This is the first report on investigation of bacteriophages in ancient Arctic ground ice of various genesis and geological age. Electron microscopy revealed phage particles in all ice samples. Tailed bacteriop...
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Phylogenetic analysis of microorganisms from permafrost
Microbiological analysis of samples from the permafrost of Mammoth Mountain (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)) was performed. Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Bacillus were isolated. DNA of the isolated microorgani...
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Modeling of dissemination of microbial cells and phages from the sites of permafrost thawing
A method is proposed for integral assessment of the propagation of microbial cells and phage particles during seasonal thawing of relic ice wedge layers. The results of field and laboratory investigation carri...
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Bacteriophages in Arctic and Antarctic low-temperature systems
Comparative analysis of the presence of bacteriophages was carried out for the water column of a permanently ice-covered, extremely oligotrophic Lake Untersee (East Antarctica) and the ancient ice wedge of the...
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Diversity of bacterial forms in ice wedge of the Mamontova Gora glacial complex (Central Yakutiya)
Electron microscopic investigation of four samples of ancient ice wedge from the Pleistocene glacial complex of Mamontova Gora (Yakutiya, Russia) revealed high diversity of bacteriomorphic particles. Their str...
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The effects of the relict microorganism B. sp. on development, gas exchange, spontaneous motor activity, stress resistance, and survival of Drosophila melanogaster
Relict microorganisms preserved in the permafrost of geological periods possess a unique resistance to unfavorable factors of the internal and external environment. Their metabolic, DNA repair, and growth capa...
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Effects of Permafrost Microorganisms on the Quality and Duration of Life of Laboratory Animals
Bacillus strain 3M isolated from samples of permafrost from Mamontova Mountain (Yakutiya) affected the quality and duration of life of “elderly” mice. Microorganisms were given i.p. to CB...
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Assessment of reliability of determination of the long-term deformation of frozen saline soils
The reliability of parametric equations of technical creep theories and the method of strain-time analogy for prediction calculations is demonstrated on the basis of comparison of experimental and computed val...