scholarly journals The cochylid fauna of the Southern Ural Mountains, with description of Cochylimorpha ignicolorana Junnilainen & K. Nupponen sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylini)

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Nupponen ◽  
Jari Junnilainen ◽  
Timo Nupponen ◽  
Vladimir Olschwang
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Distribution Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Dry Steppe

A list of 78 species of the tortricoid tribe Cochylini from the southern Ural Mountains is presented. The material was collected during 1996–2000 on nine different Finnish-Russian expeditions. Cochylimorpha ignicolorana Junnilainen & K. Nupponen sp. n. is described. The new taxon occurs on dry steppe slopes in the headland region of the southern Urals, and it is rather easy to separate from closely related taxa both externally and by the male genitalia. In addition, 7 species are reported as new for Europe and 4 species as new for Russia. The known distribution range of each species is given as well as further notes on some poorly known taxa.

scholarly journals Diversity and distribution of vascular plants within the treeline ecotone in Mount Iremel (Southern Urals, Russia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Trubina ◽  
Alexey Nesterkov
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Relict Species ◽  
Treeline Ecotone

During the last 100 years, rapid advances of trees towards higher elevations and latitudes have been recorded for various regions worldwide, including the Ural Mountains. Climate warming and tree cover increases can lead to significant changes in the high-mountain vegetation. Direct observations on the vegetation of high-mountain regions provide evidence for an increase in the species diversity of plants at high elevations and changes in the composition of the alpine communities. This study investigated the diversity and distribution of vascular plants within the present-day treeline ecotone in Mount Iremel, the Southern Urals. The dataset (Trubina and Nesterkov 2021, available from the GBIF network at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/284f1484-10b7-4ef5-87b7-9de1159e6b42) presents the results of an assessment of species richness and frequency of vascular plants at the different elevation levels (from 1203 to 1348 m a.s.l.) and different biotopes (birch-spruce shrub forest, birch-spruce sparse forest and spruce forest with fragments of meadow plant communities) within the treeline ecotone in Mount Iremel, Southern Urals. Observations were carried out at 700 sampling plots with two estimation methods: small-size plot (0.5 × 0.5 m) sampling (672 plots in total) and large-size plot (10 × 10 m) sampling (28 plots). The dataset includes 700 sampling events (= sampling plots), corresponding to 5585 occurrences (vascular plants, mainly identified to species) observed during July 2003. Only occurrences containing plant taxa (occurrenceStatus = present) have been provided. The dataset includes information about distribution and frequency of the Ural endemic species (Anemone narcissiflora subsp. biarmiensis (Juz.) Jalas, Calamagrostis uralensis Litv., Cerastium krylovii Schischk. & Gorczak., Festuca igoschiniae Tzvel., Hieracium iremelense (Elfstr.) Üksip, Lagotis uralensis Schischk, Pleurospermum uralense Hoffm.) and the Pleistocene relict species (Alopecurus magellanicus Lam., Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre, Cerastium pauciflorum Stev. ex. Ser., Pedicularis oederi Vahl, Saussurea controversa DC., Swertia perennis L.). The dataset also provides information that can be useful for estimating biodiversity and plant communities composition within the treeline ecotone at a specified time period and contributes to the study of biodiversity conservation in the Ural Region.

scholarly journals The Current State of the Protected Apis mellifera mellifera Population in Russia: Hybridization and Nosematosis

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2892
Author(s):  
Milyausha Kaskinova ◽  
Elena Saltykova ◽  
Alexander Poskryakov ◽  
Alexey Nikolenko ◽  
Luisa Gaifullina
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Apis Mellifera Mellifera ◽  
Mtdna Coi ◽  
Current State ◽  
Bee Colonies ◽  
Pcr Diagnostics

The Southern Urals of Russia are the habitat of one of the surviving populations of the dark forest bee—the Burzyan population of Apis mellifera mellifera. In this study, we present the results of the subspecies identification of bee colonies in the Altyn-Solok Nature Reserve in the Southern Ural Mountains using the intergenic mtDNA COI-COII locus and the assessment of the prevalence of nosematosis. Analysis of the mtDNA COI-COII intergenic locus in the studied sample showed that 30.4% of the colonies belong to the lineage C. The PCR diagnostics of nosematosis in 92 colonies selected from different sectors of the Altyn-Solok Nature Reserve showed that about half of the analyzed colonies were infected with Nosema apis. Nosema ceranae was found in eight colonies. Both of these factors can lead to the extinction of this population of the dark forest bee.

Biostratigraphic implications of the first North American occurrence of the Upper Mississippian ammonoid Platygoniatites

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-313
Author(s):  
Alan L. Titus
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
East Central ◽  
A New Species

The late Mississippian ammonoid family Delepinoceratidae is comprised of the genera Platygoniatites and Delepinoceras, and is considered one of the more biostratigraphically significant families for lower Namurian correlation (Manger et al., 1985). Platygoniatites, the earliest member, is known from eastern and southern Europe (Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya, 1971; Wagner-Gentis, 1963, 1980) and North Africa (Lemosquet et al., 1985). Despite its wide distribution, Platygoniatites is generally a rare member (with the exception of the southern Ural Mountains) of latest Visean and earliest Namurian faunas. It has never been reported previously from North America, though thousands of ammonoids have been collected here from age equivalent beds. The discovery of a new species of the genus in the late Mississippian faunas of east-central Nevada provides new data for precise correlation of the ammonoid zonations of Gordon (1970) to the type Namurian and indicates a need for revision of the current correlations between the southern Urals and northwestern Europe.

Kurgans and nomads: new investigations of mound burials in the southern Urals

Antiquity ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (308) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.L. Morgunova ◽  
O.S. Khokhlova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Environmental Investigation ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
The Middle Ages

A new study of the group of kurgans (burial mounds) which stands near Orenburg at the south end of the Ural mountains has revealed a sequence that began in the early Bronze Age and continued intermittently until the era of the Golden Horde in the Middle Ages. The application of modern techniques of cultural and environmental investigation has thrown new light on the different circumstances and contexts in which mound burial was practised, and confirmed the association between investment in burial and nomadism.

scholarly journals Arachnids (Araneae, Opiliones) from grass stand and forest litter in the Urals, Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Nesterkov ◽  
Maxim Zolotarev ◽  
Elena Belskaya ◽  
Tatyana Tuneva
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
Southern Taiga ◽  
Taiga Zone ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

Since the late 1980s, long-term monitoring of various components of natural ecosystems under conditions of industrial pollution has been carried out in the Central Urals. In the mid-2000s, similar programmes were started in the Southern Urals. As a part of these monitoring programmes, the data on invertebrates in different types of biotopes, collected with different methods and in a different time intervals, continue to be gathered. Amongst the most well-studied groups of invertebrates are spiders and harvestmen whose communities are a convenient indicator of the environment. The data collected through these monitoring programmes can also be used to study natural local biodiversity. The dataset, presented here, includes information from a long-term monitoring programme for Araneae and Opiliones that inhabit grass stands of secondary dry meadows and litter of spruce-fir, aspen-birch and pine-birch forests in the Central and Southern Urals. The dataset (available from the GBIF network at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e170dbd1-a67f-4514-841c-5296b290ca90) describes the assemblage structure of spiders and harvestmen (list of species and their abundance), age-sex composition and seasonal and inter-annual dynamics for two large areas in the southern taiga zone of the Ural Mountains. The dataset includes 1,351 samples, which correspond to 5,462 occurrences identified during 2004–2009, 2013 and 2018. In total, we collected 10,433 specimens, representing 178 species (36% of arachnofauna of the Urals), 115 genera (54%) and 23 families (100%). Most of the data (4,939 of 5,462 occurrences, 90%) were collected in the western macro-slope of the Ural Mountains (European part of Russia), the rest in the eastern macro-slope (Asian part). All represented data were sampled in industrially undisturbed areas and are used as a local reference for ecotoxicological monitoring. The dataset provides new useful information for recording the state of biodiversity for the Central and Southern Urals and contributes to the study of biodiversity conservation.

Current state of knowledge of a faunal inventory of Trichoptera (Hexapoda, Trichoptera) from the Ural Mountains and neighboring regions

Zoosymposia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-339
Author(s):  
NIKOLAY N. PAN´KOV ◽  
ANDREY B. KRASHENINNIKOV
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Yamal Peninsula ◽  
Middle Urals ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Polar Urals ◽  
Current State ◽  
Strong Current ◽  
High Species Richness

According to current data, the caddisfly fauna of the Urals and neighboring territories consists of 169 species from 18 families. There are 64 species of Trichoptera listed in the Polar Urals and neighboring Yamal Peninsula, 80 species are recorded in the Northern Urals, 80 species inhabit the Middle Urals, 83 species are recorded in the Southern Urals. The highest species diversity is observed in the family Limnephilidae (66 species). Families Leptoceridae (27 species), Hydroptilidae (19 species) and Phryganeidae (13 species) are also characterized by high species richness.

Large-sized Early Permian “caninioid” corals from the Karavanke Mountains, Slovenia

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 1049-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga L. Kossovaya ◽  
Matevž Novak ◽  
Dieter Weyer
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Lower Permian ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Predominant Species ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Distinguishing Features

AbstractA new monospecific “caninioid” genus,Preisingerellan. gen., from the lower Permian of the Karavanke Mountains (Southern Alps, Slovenia) is erected. The type species isPreisingerella stegovnikensisn. sp. The new taxon can be differentiated from otherCaninia-type genera by its specific ontogeny and features of its dissepimentarium. Corals with such morphology had a wide distribution during the Carboniferous and early Permian, occurring in mostly shallow-water carbonate rocks. The phylogenetic relationships within this group are mostly unclear due to similarities in the adult stages. The earlier stages reveal the main distinguishing features that are decisive for a generic assignment, but these have rarely been well preserved and properly considered. The new taxon is compared with related genera of the Cyathopsidae and species ofCaninellaGorskiy, 1938 characterized by lateral dissepiments. Large numbers of specimens of the new species, representing a monospecific assemblage, have been collected from the Born Formation at Mt. Stegovnik. Sedimentological and microfacies characteristics, as well as macro- and microfossil assemblages, underline this correlation. The fusulinoidean assemblage of the Born Formation, withSphaeroschwagerina carniolica(Kahler and Kahler, 1937), as the predominant species, corresponds to the time span between theSphaeroschwagerina moelleri-Schwagerina fecundaandPseudofusulina moellerizones, indicating a late Asselian to early Sakmarian age in the Southern Urals.

scholarly journals Buvatina iremella sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from the southern Ural Mountains

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari Junnilainen ◽  
Kari Nupponen
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
Taiga Forest

Buvatina iremella sp. n. is described from the southern Ural Mountains. Three male specimens were collected by light from an old taiga forest in the end of June. The main characteristics of the new taxon are long saccus and aedeagus in the male genitalia. The systematic position of the species is shortly discussed.

scholarly journals ON COMPETITIVENESS OF THE PEDUNCULATE OAK IN BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS OF THE SOUTHERN URALS

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
R.Yu. Yanbaev ◽  
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M.R. Khismatullin ◽  
V.Yu. Yanbaeva ◽  
G.E. Odintsov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coefficient Of Variation ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Oak Forests ◽  
Average Height ◽  
Pedunculate Oak ◽  
Tilia Cordata ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals

The results of a comparative analysis of the height and density of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) and small-leafed linden (Tilia cordata Mill.), growing in the low mountains of the western macro slope of the South Ural Mountains, are presented. The study was conducted out in a floodplain oak forest with a composition of 80 % (oak) and 20 % (linden) and a density of 0,4 in windows of the canopy. The shoots and self-seeding of both species were not revealed. The projective cover of plants in all 7 trial plots is close to 100 %. Small (up to 0,5 m) and medium (0,51–1,5 m) undergrowth prevails. The oak dominates in most cases – its share on a 10- point scale is 7,4 ± 0,5 (coefficient of variation 18,3 %), compared with linden (2,4 ± 0,6, 58,9 %). The average height of the oak undergrowth is 64,6 ± 1,2 cm with changes from 20 to 140 cm (coefficient of variation 38,7 %). The growth of linden was almost 1,5 times higher (101,6 ± 1,9 cm), but it varies less (30–175 cm and 27,7 %). Differences in height between the two species are statistically significant (p < 0,001). The oak renewed more abundantly (12,4 ± 2,6 plants per square meter, 1,0 to 18,0 pcs, coefficient of variation 51,8 %) than linden (6,5 ± 1,9 cm, 0,25–13,4 pcs, 72,7 %). Plants with a developmental delay during the reversal and dying off of the main stem were not found. Smallleaved linden, which plays the role of «sod» at the first stage of his life, is currently beginning to inhibit the growth of young oak. The restoration of oak forests under these conditions is impossible without the forestry help (thinning).

scholarly journals Morphological and molecular taxonomy of Dendrolimus sibiricus Chetverikov stat.rev. and allied lappet moths (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae), with description of a new species

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kauri Mikkola ◽  
Gunilla Ståhls
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Taxonomy ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Forest Damage ◽  
Forest Pest ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
Established Species ◽  
A New Species

The populations of the well-known forest pest, Dendrolimus sibiricus Chetverikov, 1908 stat.rev., were sampled in the European foothills of the Ural Mountains, Russia. D. sibiricus is a species distinct from the Japanese taxon D. superans (Butler, 1877). Another taxon from the Southern Urals, taxonomically close to D. pini (Linnaeus), is described here as D. kilmez sp.n. The synthetic female pheromones prepared for D. pini and D. sibiricus attracted equally well all three taxa present, and thus cannot be used to identify these species. The Ural populations of D. sibiricus show differences in external appearance, and as already in the 1840s Eversmann indicated that the species had caused local forest damage, D. sibiricus must be a long-established species in the Ural area. Thus, natural spreading westward of the pest is not to be expected. The five Dendrolimus species of the northern Palaearctic and the male genitalia are illustrated, and the distinguishing characters are listed. Two Matsumura lectotypes are designated.

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