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.

Geographical and phytocoenotic areas of endemic of the South Urals Delphinium uralense Nevski

2016 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
L. M. Ishbirdina ◽  
N. I. Fedorov ◽  
A. A. Muldashev
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Floristic Composition ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
South Urals ◽  
The South ◽  
Ural Mountains ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Relict Species

The geographical and phytocoenotic areas of the endemic of the Southern Urals Delphinium uralense that is a relic species of the ancient Pleistocene steppe were studied. Species is listed in the Red book of the Russian Federation (2008) and the Red Book of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2011). The main part of the geographical area of the investigated species is limited by the Zilair plateau located in the south-western tip of the Ural Mountains, within the Urals fold-block surface. The phytocoenotic area of this species includes the xerophytic communities referring to 2 classes, 3 orders, 4 alliances, 1 suballiance, 2 associations, 1 subassociation, 1 variantand 4 non-ranking communities The formation of the unique complex of xerophytic oak-larch sparse forests and rocky steppes in the southern Urals is linked with the occurrence of the mountainous steppe with larch groves, which were the remnants of the xerophytic mountain landscape —“Pleistocene floristic complex” (Igoshina, 1961, 1963). The enrichment the floristic composition of the complex took place in the late Pleistocene due to following facts: the appearance of rock and mountain-steppe Asian relict species (Ryabinina, 1993), the migration of Eastern Siberian elements to the West, the movement of European species to the East, the formation of the Urals endemic floristic races (Krasheninnikov, 1939). Later, in the Holocene, the Pleistocene floristic complex was enriched by some species of broad-leaved forests (including oak Quercus robur), the penetration ofthe south richsteppe flora, and replenishment of the floristic complex by the Pontic and Sarmatic species (Igoshina, 1961). As a result of mentioned above processes a unique complex of xerophytic rocky mountain steppes and of sparse oak and larch elfin woodswas formed in the Zilair plateau.

scholarly journals Broad-leaved plants of the Southern Urals broad-leaved-conifer forests (some results of the studies)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Yuriy Petrovich Gorichev ◽  
Ildar Ravilevich Yusupov ◽  
Alexander Nikolaevich Davydychev ◽  
Aleksey Yurievich Kulagin
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Conifer Forests ◽  
The South ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Standard Methods ◽  
Forest Sites ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Different Types

The paper deals with the study of broad-leaved plants of the Southern Urals broad-leaved-conifer forests. Stationary studies were conducted on the territory of the South Ural state natural reserve, where 9 forest sites in different types of broad-leaved forests were laid. The research used standard methods while microclimatic observations used digital thermometers-recorders Thermochron. The authors have obtained some data on the structure and composition of the characteristic types of broad-leaved forests with oak and maple domination. The authors have classified ecosystems and plant communities, selected 3 types of biogeocenoses and 4 types of phytocoenoses. Studies have established that selected types of broad-leaved forests are associated to certain elements of relief and high-altitude levels. The obtained materials provide the basis for further monitoring of forests.

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 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.

Survey of streams plant communities in the Southern Urals

2004 ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Z. Baisheva ◽  
A. I. Solomeshch ◽  
I. N. Grigoryev
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
New Association

As a result of classification of spring and brook vegetation in the Southern Urals, based upon 150 releves, 6 associations and 6 variants are totally distingui­shed, and one new association is described. The asso­ciations Cardamino amarae—Chrysosplenietum alternifolii Maas 1959 and Fontinali antipyreticae—Cardaminetum amarae ass. nov. hoc loco belong to the class Montio-Cardaminetea Br.-Bl. et R. Tx. 1943, whereas the class Platyhypnidio-Fontinalietea Phi­lippi 1956 comprises the associations Fontinalietum antipyreticae Kaiser 1926, Brachythecio rivularis—Hygrohypnetum luridi Philippi 1965, Cratoneuretum filicini Poelt 1954 and Scapanietum undulatae Schwi­ckerath 1944. The relations of listed associations to the European syntaxa are discussed.

Use of syntaxonomy to study the anthropogenic vegetation dynamics

2012 ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
B. M. Mirkin ◽  
S. M. Yamalov ◽  
A. V. Bayanov ◽  
N. M. Sayfullina
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Vegetation Dynamics ◽  
Ecological Monitoring ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Herbaceous Vegetation ◽  
Spectra Analysis ◽  
Pasture Digression ◽  
Anthropogenic Vegetation ◽  
Effective Instrument

Method of studying of herbaceous vegetation succession with the usage of vegetation syntaxonomy is described. A prospect of the method is shown by given examples of analysis of pasture digression, recreation succession of meadow communities and succession under the influence of reestablishing successions on the place of ghost villages in the Southern Urals. Possibility of application of the results of phytosociological spectra analysis for evaluation of succession status of plant communities is discussed. The analysis of phytosociological spectra might be an effective instrument for ecological monitoring of vegetation.

Endemic associations of petrophytic steppes of the South Urals palaeoreefs

2011 ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Yamalov ◽  
A. V. Bayanov ◽  
V. B. Martynenko ◽  
A. A. Muldashev ◽  
P. S. Shirokikh
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
South Urals ◽  
The South ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Steppe Communities

Classification of the petrophytic steppe communities occurring on unique geomorphological formations of the Southern Urals (Bashkortostan Republik) — palaeoreefs (”shikhans“) have been performed. The plant communities were classified and included into two new associations (Minuartiо krascheninnikovii―Festucetum pseudovinae и Trinio muricatae―Centauretum sibiricae). Ecological, geographical, floristic and phytocoenotic characteristics of the syntaxa are discussed.

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.

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