Freshwater Fishes of the Kuril Islands and Adjacent Regions

Pietsch, Theodore W.; Amaoka, Kunio; Stevenson, Duane E.; MacDonald, Erin L.; Urbain, Brian K.; López, J. Andrés

doi:10.12782/specdiv.6.133

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“…(1999); Barkalov (2000); Belokobylskij & Tobias (2000); Kupianskaya et al. (2000); Lelej & Kupianskaya (2000); Lelej (2001); Marusik & Crawford (2001); Pietsch et al. (2001); Barkalov (2002); Kostenko (2002); Lafer (2002); Lelej et al.…”

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“…After the subduction of the Kula–Pacific Ridge, a volcanic hiatus ensued, and there is no evidence of subsequent volcanic activity in the Lesser Kuril Ridge. During the hiatus of the Late Eocene and Oligocene, the Okhotsk Plate was subsiding, and there is evidence that the Lesser Kuril Ridge may have been submerged during part of this period (Kimura & Tamaki, 1985; Pietsch et al. , 2001).…”

Section: Paleogeography Of the Kuril Archipelagomentioning

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“…Of some 300 species of birds either inhabiting or migrating through the Kurils, there is only one known endemic subspecies, Cepphus columba snowi (Zhuravlev & Sazonova, 2002). There are no endemic species or subspecies of fishes on the Kurils (Pietsch et al. , 2001).…”

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Biodiversity and biogeography of the islands of the Kuril Archipelago

Pietsch

Богатов

Amaoka

et al. 2003

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Based on seven consecutive seasons of biotic survey and inventory of the terrestrial and freshwater plants and animals of the 30 major islands of the Kuril Archipelago, a description of the biodiversity and an analysis of the biogeography of this previously little known part of the world are provided.Location The Kuril Archipelago, a natural laboratory for investigations into the origin, subsequent evolution, and long-term maintenance of insular populations, forms the eastern boundary of the Okhotsk Sea, extending 1200 km between Hokkaido, Japan, and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. A chain of more than 56 islands, the system is only slightly smaller than the Hawaiian Islands, covering an area of 15,600 km 2 and providing 2409 km of coastline.Methods Collections of whole specimens of plants and animals, as well as tissue samples for future molecular studies, were made by teams of scientists from Russia, Japan, and the USA, averaging 34 people for each of the seven annual summer expeditions (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000). Floral and faunal similarities between islands were evaluated by using Sorensen's coefficient of similarity. The similarity matrix resulting from pair-wise calculations was then subjected to UPGMA cluster analysis.

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Section: Paleogeography Of the Kuril Archipelagomentioning

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Biodiversity and biogeography of the islands of the Kuril Archipelago

Pietsch

Богатов

Amaoka

et al. 2003

Journal of Biogeography

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“…Larger landmasses and a paleogeographic history of connection to temperate ecosystems in Hokkaido in periods of lower sea levels have given the southern islands higher biological diversity than the central and northern islands of the chain (Pietch et al, 2003). This includes a broad range of trees and shrubs (Anderson et al, 2008), terrestrial mammals (Hoekstra and Fagan, 1998), insects, mollusks and fish (Pietsch et al, 2001; 2003). The remote islands of the Kuril archipelago (“South-Central” and “North-Central” on Fig.…”

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Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: A study in complex human ecodynamics

Fitzhugh

Gjesfjeld

Brown

et al. 2016

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Living in remote places can strain the adaptive capacities of human settlers. It can also protect communities from external social, political and economic forces. In this paper, we present an archaeological population history of the Kuril Islands. This string of small volcanic islands on the margins of the Northwest Pacific was occupied by maritime hunting, fishing and gathering communities from the mid-Holocene to recent centuries. We bring together (1) 380 new and previously published archaeological radiocarbon dates, (2) a new paleodemographic model based on a radiocarbon-timestamped temporal frequency distribution of archaeological deposits, (3) recently published paleoclimate trends, and (4) recently published archaeological proxy evidence for changes in the extent of social networks. We demonstrate that, over the last two millennia, inhabitants of the Kuril Islands underwent dramatic demographic fluctuations. Explanations of these fluctuations are considered in the context of environmental hazards, social networks and the emergence of an East Asian “World System”, elucidating the tension between local and external adaptive strategies to social and ecological uncertainty. Results suggest that population resilience to local climate and environmental variability was achieved by virtue of social networks that maintained non-local support in times of crisis. Conversely, the expansion of the East Asian political economy into neighboring regions of the southern margin of the Kuril Islands perhaps in conjunction with exposure to epidemic diseases appears to have undermined the adaptive strategies, resulting in an increase in the vulnerability of Kuril populations to environmental fluctuations.

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“…Comparative specimens were unavailable for the entire range of species observed within the region (e.g., Amaoka et al 2000;Kostenko 2000Kostenko , 2002Pietsch et al 2001Pietsch et al , 2003. Additionally, the comparative material lacks variability in terms of age, sex, and pathology.…”

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Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East: The Kuril Islands and Sakhalin in Comparative Perspective

Fitzhugh¹,

Moore²,

Lockwood³

et al. 2004

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This article presents analyses of lithic and zooarchaeological data from the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to better understand the effects of island isolation and biodiversity on human settlement and subsistence. Using the theory of island biogeography, we examine predictions about lithic raw material use, trade, mobility, and foraging behavior for different island groups. This study finds convincing evidence that insularity imposed significant constraints on prehistoric maritime hunter-gatherer access to lithic raw materials and foraging targets in this part of the North Pacific. We find that lithic raw materials are constrained in their distribution and conserved in more insular areas, while zooarchaeological taxonomic composition and richness data pattern according to expectations from optimal foraging theory applied across islands of variable biogeographic diversity. While based on limited samples, the results of these analyses provide support for a biogeographical approach to the prehistory of islands and add to our understanding of human adaptation in the Sea of Okhotsk.

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Freshwater Fishes of the Kuril Islands and Adjacent Regions

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Biodiversity and biogeography of the islands of the Kuril Archipelago

Biodiversity and biogeography of the islands of the Kuril Archipelago

Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: A study in complex human ecodynamics

Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East: The Kuril Islands and Sakhalin in Comparative Perspective

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