scholarly journals Post-fire insect fauna explored by crown fermental traps in forests of the European Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Ruchin ◽  
L. V. Egorov ◽  
I. MacGowan ◽  
V. N. Makarkin ◽  
A. V. Antropov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Alpha Diversity ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Insect Diversity ◽  
Insect Communities ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Crown Fires ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
State Nature

AbstractWildfires considerably affect forest ecosystems. However, there is a lack of data on the post-fire status of insect communities in these ecosystems. This paper presents results of a study conducted in 2019 which considered the post-fire status of the insect fauna in a Protected Area, Mordovia State Nature Reserve (Republic of Mordovia, centre of European Russia), considered as regional hotspot of insect diversity in Mordovia. We sampled insects on intact (unburned, control) and fire-damaged (burnt in 2010) sites and compared the alpha-diversity between sites. In total, we sampled and analysed 16,861 specimens belonging to 11 insect orders, 51 families and 190 species. The largest orders represented in the samples were Coleoptera (95 species), Diptera (54 species), Hymenoptera (21 species), and Neuroptera (11 species). Other insect orders were represented by between one and four species. The largest four orders (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera) represented 96.7% of all studied specimens. We found that in the ninth year after low intensity surface fire damage, the insect diversity had returned to a similar level to that of the control (unburned) sites. Sites damaged by crown wildfire differed considerably from other sites in terms of a negative impact on both species diversity and the number of specimens. This indicates the serious effect of the crown fires on the biodiversity and consequent long-term recovery of the damaged ecosystem.

scholarly journals Checklist of the Coleoptera of Mordovia State Nature Reserve, Russia

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 962 ◽  
pp. 13-122
Author(s):  
Leonid V. Egorov ◽  
Alexander B. Ruchin ◽  
Viktor B. Semenov ◽  
Oleg I. Semionenkov ◽  
Gennady B. Semishin
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Adventive Species ◽  
Classification Framework ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
Recent Classification ◽  
State Nature

All 2,145 species of Coleoptera from 88 families known to occur in Mordovia State Nature Reserve, Russia, are listed, along with their author(s) and year of description using the most recent classification framework. Adventive species for European Russia are indicated. There are 31 adventive species in the reserve, comprising 1.44% of the total beetle fauna.

scholarly journals Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity

BMC Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Yeo ◽  
Amrita Srivathsan ◽  
Jayanthi Puniamoorthy ◽  
Foo Maosheng ◽  
Patrick Grootaert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Insect Diversity ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Insect Communities ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Insect Biodiversity ◽  
Freshwater Swamp ◽  
Threatened Habitat

Abstract Background The world’s fast disappearing mangrove forests have low plant diversity and are often assumed to also have a species-poor insect fauna. We here compare the tropical arthropod fauna across a freshwater swamp and six different forest types (rain-, swamp, dry-coastal, urban, freshwater swamp, mangroves) based on 140,000 barcoded specimens belonging to ca. 8500 species. Results We find that the globally imperiled habitat “mangroves” is an overlooked hotspot for insect diversity. Our study reveals a species-rich mangrove insect fauna (>3000 species in Singapore alone) that is distinct (>50% of species are mangrove-specific) and has high species turnover across Southeast and East Asia. For most habitats, plant diversity is a good predictor of insect diversity, but mangroves are an exception and compensate for a comparatively low number of phytophagous and fungivorous insect species by supporting an unusually rich community of predators whose larvae feed in the productive mudflats. For the remaining tropical habitats, the insect communities have diversity patterns that are largely congruent across guilds. Conclusions The discovery of such a sizeable and distinct insect fauna in a globally threatened habitat underlines how little is known about global insect biodiversity. We here show how such knowledge gaps can be closed quickly with new cost-effective NGS barcoding techniques.

Additions to the lichen flora of the Kologriv Forest Reserve and Kostroma Region

Turczaninowia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Irina N. Urbanavichene ◽  
Gennady P. Urbanavichus
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Lichenicolous Fungi ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
First Time ◽  
State Nature ◽  
Lichen Flora

As a result of determining the lichens collected in summer 2020 in the territory of the Kologriv Forest State Nature Reserve (Kostroma Region), 57 species (44 lichens, 5 non-lichenized and 8 lichenicolous fungi) new to the lichen flora of the Reserve were identified. Among them, 49 species and 17 genera (Acrocordia, Allocalicium, Acarospora, Biatoridium, Catinaria, Cryptodiscus, Didymocyrtis, Fellhanera, Inoderma, Intralichen, Lichenoconium, Melaspileella, Rebentischia, Schismatomma, Sclerococcum, Thelidium, and Tremella) are new for the Kostroma Region. Micarea melanobola is new for Russia. The genus Rebentischia with species R. massalongii as well as Ramalina vogulica are published for the first time for the European Russia. Five species: Allocalicium adaequatum, Bryoria glabra, Japewia subaurifera, Sclerococcum simplex, and Tremella hypogymniae – are reported as new records for the Middle Russia. Information on habitats, substrates and distribution in the neighboring regions is provided.

Mosses of spruce “island” in the valley of the More-Yu River (Bolshezemelskaya Tundra, northeast European Russia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-399
Author(s):  
G. V. Zheleznova ◽  
T. P. Shubina
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Spruce Forest ◽  
Picea Obovata ◽  
Red Data Book ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
Data Book ◽  
First Time ◽  
State Nature

For the first time an annotated list of mosses of the northernmost «island» relict spruce forest in the northeast European Russia has been compiled. The Spruce forest was isolated from the area of spruce (Picea obovata) presumably 4.5 thousand years ago. Spruce «island» is located in Bolshezemelskaya Tundra, in the middle reaches of the More-Yu River on the territory of the state nature reserve of regional importance (67°49'50"–67°59'67"N, 60°01'47"–60°03'02"E). The total area of spruce communities is about 2.5 km2. The age of the trees is 150–200 years. The annotated list includes 134 species of mosses, of which 17 species are found for the first time for Bolshezemelskaya Tundra. New data on the occurrence of six rare species of mosses included in the Red Data Book of the Arkhangelsk Region (2008) — Aloina brevirostris, Cynodontium strumiferum, Encalypta rhaptocarpa, Meesia uliginosa, Scorpidium cossonii, Tetraplodon mnioides are presented.

scholarly journals Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Yeo ◽  
Amrita Srivathsan ◽  
Jayanthi Puniamoorthy ◽  
Foo Maosheng ◽  
Patrick Grootaert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Insect Diversity ◽  
Forest Types ◽  
Insect Communities ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Insect Biodiversity ◽  
Freshwater Swamp ◽  
Arthropod Fauna ◽  
Threatened Habitat

AbstractWe here compare the tropical arthropod fauna across a freshwater swamp and six different forest types (rain-, swamp, dry-coastal, urban, freshwater swamp, mangroves) based on 140,000 specimens belonging to ca. 8,500 species. Surprisingly, we find that mangroves, a globally imperiled habitat that had been expected to be species-poor for insects, are an overlooked hotspot for insect diversity despite having low plant diversity. Mangroves are very species-rich (>3,000 species) and distinct (>50% of species are mangrove-specific) with high species turnover across Southeast and East Asia. Overall, plant diversity is a good predictor for insect diversity for most habitats, but mangroves compensate for the low number of phytophagous and fungivorous species by supporting an unusually rich community of predators whose larvae feed in the productive mudflats. For the remaining habitats, the insect communities have diversity patterns that are largely congruent across guilds. The discovery of such a sizeable and distinct insect fauna in a globally threatened habitat underlines how little is known about global insect biodiversity.

scholarly journals [Mosses of the Orenburg State Nature Reserve (south-eastern european Russia)]

Arctoa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulyana N. Spirina ◽  
Valerij I. Zolotov
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
State Nature

scholarly journals A record of Botrychium lanceolatum (S. G. Gmel.) Ångstr., a new species for the flora of the middle zone of European Russia from Kostroma Region

Turczaninowia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
Igor G. Krinitsyn ◽  
Nikolay G. Prilepsky
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Temperate Zone ◽  
European Russia ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Chukchi Peninsula ◽  
Middle Zone ◽  
State University ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
State Nature

The article reports on a find of a new plant native to the flora of central European Russia – Botrychium lanceolatum (S. G. Gmel.) Ångstr., which was discovered during a survey of a 60-year-old clearcut in the course of floristic work on the territory of M. G. Sinitsyn “Kologrivskiy Les” State Nature Reserve (the Kostroma Region). Collection and determination were carried out by the author of the article I. G. Krinitsyn. For the Kostroma Region, the species was not indicated in any floristic checklist. Herbarium specimens of the aboveground part of the sporophyte are kept in the Herbarium of the Kostroma State University and the “Kologrivskiy Les” State Nature Reserve Herbarium, as well as transferred to the Herbarium of the Altai State University (ALTB). B. lanceolatum is a relict species of the forest zone of the Holarctic with a fragmented range mainly in the subarctic, northern temperate zone and in the mountains of the warm temperate zone of Eurasia and North America. In Russia, it is sporadically found in the forest zone from the Murmansk and Leningrad Regions to Kamchatka and Sakhalin, inclusively; it enters the Arctic on the Chukchi Peninsula. The species is rare throughout its range; the populations are represented by single individuals. It is included in many regional Red Data Books of the Russian Federation. B. lanceolatum became the fifth species of the Botrychiaceae Nakai family in the pteridoflora of the Kostroma Region (and the middle zone of European Russia as a whole). In the Kostroma Region, the species is located on the extreme southern border of the range in the middle zone of the European part of Russia. The population of B. lanceolatum at the time of the discovery was represented by 4 individuals in different ontogenetic states. The data on the new location and phytocenotic conditions of growth of the species are given; a brief morphological description and information on the dynamics of the population are presented.

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