Description
Checklist contains data on moss flora of Yugyd va National Park, located in the Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia (Russian Federation, Komi Republic). It is summarizes data noted by long-term bryological explorations in remote areas of the Subpolar and Northern Urals from 1943 to 2015, and from studies published since 1915. Yugyd Va National Park is the largest protected area in the Komi Republic. The area of Yugyd Va is 35% of the total area of all the Komi Republic’s protected areas. Yugyd Va National Park and Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve (the latter being adjacent to the southern part of the National Park) were recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, the Virgin Komi Forests, in 1995. This territory is a remnant of the largest intact forest area in Europe. This area is a refugium for many animal and plant species that are endangered or have disappeared in other places, and function as a source of genetic diversity for many boreal species’ populations. The moss flora of Yugyd Va National Park contains a high diversity of species, especially taking into account the fact that surveys of the whole territory have not yet concluded because of the inaccessibility of the region. It includes 302 taxa of mosses belonging to 112 genera and 36 families. At the same time, there are no endemic taxa. Most of the species are typical members of the Boreal and Holarctic bryoflora. In the investigated territory there are 17 rare species of mosses that are included in the “Red Data Book of the Komi Republic” (Taskaev 2009), and three of these species (Stereodon plicatulus, Bryum rutilans, and Pseudocalliergon lycopodioides) are included in the Red Data Book of European Bryophytes (1995).
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Zheleznova G, Shubina T, Chadin I (2018): Mosses checklist of Yugyd Va National Park, Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia. v1.4. Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dataset/Checklist. http://ib.komisc.ru:8088/ipt/resource?r=mosses_checkst_of_yugyd_va_national_park&v=1.4
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Keywords
Checklist; Inventoryregional; mosses; Yugyd Va National Park; Subpolar Urals; Northern Urals; European North-East Russia; Komi Republic; Russian Federation
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Geographic Coverage
The length of Yugyd Va National Park is 280 km from North to South and 120 km from West to East. It is located on the western macroslopes of the Subpolar and Northern Urals. The Subpolar Urals are part of the Ural Mountains, and run from the headwaters of the Lyapin (Khulga) River in the north (65º40′N) to Telposiz Mountain in the south (64º0′N). The mountainous area covers about 32,000 km2. There are two main watersheds of the Subpolar Urals: Narodo-Itinsky in the east, with a length of more than 100 km, and Issledovatelsky in the west, with a length of more than 150 km. The northern continuation of the Issledovatelsky Range is the Rossomakha Ridge. Traces of glaciation are manifested in the large irregularities of these ridges. The slopes of the mountains are composed of stone placers. The Subpolar Urals are characterized by ridges with high altitudes and alpine landforms. The average height of the peaks is 1300-1400 m. The highest point of the Urals is located at Narodnaya Mountain (1,896 m). The Subpolar Urals have a pronounced asymmetry in their slopes: the eastern slopes of the Subpolar Urals gradually pass into the lowland wetlands of the West Siberian Lowland region, whereas the ridges of the western slopes end abruptly at the Pechora Plain. The Northern Urals begin at the northern foothills of Telposiz Mountain (1,617 m, 63°55′N) and stretch in a southward direction to Lyalinsky Kamen Mountain (851 m, 59°15'N). The Northern Urals are characterized by having a smooth topography with a maximum elevation of not more than 1,619 m above sea level (Telposiz Mountain). Along the western side of the Northern Urals there is a long strip of foothills, most of which only rise 200-300 m above sea level. The rivers in these regions mainly flow through narrow valley in which floodplains are often poorly expressed. The bottoms of the rivers are covered by pebbles and rocks. Large rounded boulders transported by ancient glaciers are also often found in the riverbeds. The vertical zonation of the Subpolar and Northern Urals consists of four belts: dark coniferous taiga, thin-wood forests with a predominance of larch, mountain tundra, and a cold goltsy desert belt. The vegetation of the mountainous dark coniferous taiga is formed mainly by Picea obovata and Betula pubescens mixed with Abies sibirica and Pinus sibirica. Submontane forests differ from the plain dark coniferous taiga by there being less waterlogging, with a predominance of green moss and grass vegetation types. As the altitude increases, the mountains’ forests are thinned and gradually pass into light forests. The upper boundary of the forests is formed by Larix sibirica, Abies sibirica, Pinus sibirica, and Betula pubescens. The cold goltsy desert belt in the Subpolar Urals begins at 300–400 m (Taskaev 2006, Chibilev 2011). The climate in this part of the Urals is strongly continental. The meridional location of the ridges has a significant effect on the climate by preventing the movement of moist air masses from west to east. The Subpolar and Northern Urals are distinguished from other parts of the Urals by the relatively abundant precipitation they receive (up to 1,500 mm per year). Most of the precipitation falls in the summer months, from June to August (40-50%). In winter, about 30-40% of the annual precipitation falls. The average monthly temperature of the coldest month (January) in these mountains ranges from -18 ºC to -20 ºC, while that of the warmest month (July) is +10 ºC. The duration of the summer period is 60-75 days (Ponomarev and Pystina 2009).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [63.178, 58.712], North East [65.815, 61.479] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Checklist includes 302 taxa of mosses. All mosses were identified to species. The coverage of the checklist spans the phylum Bryophyta. The highest number of records are from the Bryopsida (84.5%), followed by the Sphagnopsida (8.9%), Polytrichopsida (5.3%), Andreaeopsida (1%), and Tetraphidopsida (0.3%).
| Phylum | Bryophyta |
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| Class | Bryopsida, Sphagnopsida, Polytrichopsida, Tetraphidopsida, Andreaeopsida |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1905-07-01 / 2015-07-30 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Diversity of the main components of ecosystems along the latitudinal and altitudinal gradients of the Northern and the Subpolar Urals’ western macroslopes |
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| Identifier | АААА-А16-116021010241-9 |
| Funding | The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation |
| Study Area Description | This study was carried in the foothill and mountain landscapes of the Subpolar Urals, in the basins of four first-order tributaries of the Pechora River: the Kozhim River, the Kosyu River, the Bolshaya Synya River, and the upper stream of the Shchugor River. Mosses of the Northern Urals were collected in the basin of the Shchugor River and two of its tributaries: the Podcherem River and the Telpos River. The earliest data on the mosses of Yugyd Va National Park were published by the famous Russian botanist R. R. Pole in 1915 (Pole 1915). His investigations were carried out in 1905 and 1907 in the Shchugor River basin in the Northern Urals. Later, Y. Zinserling in 1926 and P. L. Gorchakovskii in 1954 collected mosses in the vicinity of Mount Sablya in the Subpolar Urals (Zinserling 1935, Gorchakovskii 1958). V. B. Kuvaev collected mosses on the mountain slopes in the basins of the Shchugor River in the Northern Urals and the Kozhim River in the Subpolar Urals in 1948-1949 (Kuvaev 1970). A. P. Dyachenko conducted Botanical research in 1984 on Mount Narodnaya in the Kosyu River basin in the Subpolar Urals (Dyachenko and Fomicheva 1986, Dyachenko 1997). I. D. Kildyushevskiy explored the vegetation cover of the Subpolar Urals in the Kozhym River basin in 1948-1951. These explorations were the basis for their later work describing the moss flora of the Subpolar Urals (Kildyushevskiy 1956). Specialists from the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences began to conduct botanical research in this National Park in 1943. |
| Design Description | The study of the flora and vegetation diversity of terrestrial ecosystems in the park was performed with an integrated approach at both the community and species levels. The standard methods of plant systematics, geobotany, and phytogeography were used. Important “Plant Areas” were studied by describing plant communities along altitudinal gradients from watercourses to their watersheds. The results of this study were documented in the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Herbarium (SYKO). |
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Sampling Methods
Standard methods of moss collection were used. The collecting localities were arbitrarily chosen, attempting to include the largest number of different floristic associations and landscape forms. Moss samples were collected once and on each type of substrate. For each of the specimen a brief description of the Botanical characteristics, location, topography, geo-referenced was made. The results of the study were documented in Herbarium (SYKO).
| Study Extent | This study was carried in the foothill and mountain landscapes of the Subpolar Urals, in the basins of four first-order tributaries of the Pechora River: the Kozhim River (in the Rosomakha, Maldynyrd, Zapadnye Saledy, Yuasnyrd, Maldyiz, and Obeiz mountain ranges), the Kosyu River (in the Vostochnye Saledy, and Kolokolenny mountain ranges), the Bolshaya Synya River (on Sablinskiy ridge), and the upper stream of the Shchugor River. The major tributaries of the Kozhim River studied were the Balbanyu River, Limbekoyu River, and Syvyu River. In the Kosyu River basin, the territories near its major tributary (the Vangyr River) and near the lakes Mezhgornye and Okunevye were studied. In the basin of the upper stream of the Bolshaya Synya River, the areas adjacent to its tributaries, including the Voyvozh-Synya River and the Lunvozh-Synya River, were studied. Mosses of the Northern Urals were collected in the basin of the Shchugor River (in the Telpos and Sumk-Ner mountain ranges, and on the mountains Telpos-iz, Yank-Kart-Tump, Vay-Khury-Tump, and Khodymalya-Tump) and two of its tributaries: the Podcherem River (Pelener Mountain) and the Telpos River. |
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| Quality Control | The data were collected and identified by bryologists from the Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Some moss specimens were identified by taxonomic specialists from the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
Method step description:
- The references of published literature data used for the checklist compilation are presented in the “citations” section of the Metadata. The herbarium label data were taken from mosses collection of Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Herbarium (SYKO). The every occurrence record where merged into one MS Excel sheet. The species name were given according to “Check-list of mosses of East Europe and North Asia” (Ignatov et al, 2006). The unique values from “Species” field were used as preliminary Yugyd Va National Park mosses checklist. The preliminary checklist was verified on the “The taxonomic name resolution service (Boyle et al, 2013) with the help of “taxize” pacjkage in R environment (Chamberlain & Szocs, 2013).
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Научный гербарий Института биологии Коми НЦ УрО РАН (SYKO). Коллекция мохообразных |
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| Parent Collection Identifier | http://ckp-rf.ru/usu/507466/?sphrase_id=7852290 |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 56,000 +/- 2 specimens |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Boyle B et al. (2013) The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names. BMC Bioinformatics 14:16. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-16
- Chamberlain S, Szocs E (2013) Taxize – taxonomic search and retrieval in R. F1000Research, 2:191. http://f1000research.com/articles/2-191/v2
- Chibilev AA (2011) The Ural: Natural diversity and the Euroasian border. UB RAS, Yekaterinburg. 1– 132. 1-160. (In Russian)
- Dyachenko AP (1997) Moss Flora of the Urals. Part 1: History of study. Abstract. Taxonomic analysis. Urals State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg. 1–264. (In Russian)
- Dyachenko AP, Fomicheva LN (1986) Flora of mosses of the most visited areas of the Sablya range mountain. In: Gorchakovskiy PL (Ed) Mountain ecosystems of the Urals and problems of environmental management. Institute of Plant and Animal ecology Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Sverdlovsk. 18 (In Russian)
- Gorchakovskiy PL (1958) Vegetation of the Sablya range mountain at the Subarctic Urals. In: Tikhomirov BA (Ed) Vegetation of the Far North and its development. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow-Leningrad. 3: 95–127. (In Russian)
- Ignatov MS, Afonina OM, Ignatova EA et al. (2006) Check-list of mosses of East Europe and North Asia. Arctoa. 15: 1–130. doi 10.15298/arctoa.15.01
- Kildyushevskiy ID (1956) To the moss flora of the Subpolar Urals. In: Savich VP (Ed) Proceedings of Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series 2. Cryptogamae. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. 11: 313–332. (In Russian)
- Kuvaev VB (1970) Lichens and mosses of the Polar Urals and adjacent plains. In: Gorchakovskiy PL (Ed) Cryptogamic plants of the Urals. Proceedings of Institute of Plant and Animal ecology Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Ural Branch of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Sverdlovsk. 70: 61–92. (In Russian)
- Pole RR (1915) Materials for knowledge of the vegetation of Northern Russia. To the flora of mosses of the North of Russia. Proceedings of the Imperial Botanic garden of Peter the Great. The Printing House of Mattisen, Petrograd. 33 (1): 1–148. (In Russian)
- Ponomarev VI, Pystina TN (Eds) (2009) Biological Diversity of the Ural Pechora Basin Region.Institute of Biology Komi Sci. Centre Ur. Br. RAS, Syktyvkar. 1– 264. (In Russian) https://ib.komisc.ru/rus/book-2009/1465-biologicheskoe-raznoobrazie-uralskogo-pripechorya
- Red Data Book of European bryophytes (1995) European Committee for the Conservation of Bryophytes (ECCB), Trondheim. 1–291.
- Taskaev AI (Ed) (2006) Virgin forests of Komi. The UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site. Publishing Centre Design. Information. Cartography, Moscow. 1–288.
- Taskaev AI (Ed) (2009) Red Data Book of the Komi Republic. Publishing Centre Design. Information. Cartography, Moscow-Syktyvkar. 1–791. (In Russian) https://ib.komisc.ru/add/rb/
- Tsinzerling YuD (1935) The vegetation of the array of the Sablya range mountain. In: Kolesnik SV (Ed) Ural. Polar regions. Proceedings of glacial expeditions. Central administration of the hydrometeorological service, Leningrad. 4: 75–86. (In Russian)
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| Alternative Identifiers | a3846a81-c16c-40ad-a223-7dbb1caadfe2 |
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