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Moss occurrences in Yugyd Va National Park, Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia

Citation

Zheleznova G, Shubina T, Degteva S, Rubtsov M, Chadin I (2020). Moss occurrences in Yugyd Va National Park, Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia. Version 1.6. Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/kfeugm accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-25.

Description

This study produced a dataset containing information on moss occurrences in the territory of Yugyd Va National Park, located in the Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia. The dataset summarizes occurrences 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.

The dataset consists of 4,120 occurrence records. The occurrence data were extracted from herbarium specimen labels (3,833 records) and data from the published literature (287 records). Most of the records (4,104) are georeferenced.

A total of 302 moss taxa belonging to 112 genera and 36 families are reported herein to occur in Yugyd Va National Park, although currently the diversity of bryophytes in this National Park has not yet been fully explored.

Sampling Description

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.

Sampling

The authors contributing to the dataset used standard methods of mosses collection. The collecting localities were arbitrarily chosen in an attempt to include the largest number of different floristic associations and landscape forms in the samples. To achieve this purpose, a net of radial routes around each field base camp was planned. Short descriptions of plant communities were made in the localities of mosses collection. Moss samples were collected once and on each type of substrate. The results of this study were documented in the Herbarium (SYKO). In addition to the authors’ collections, the dataset includes information on moss occurrences obtained from sources in the published literature (Pole 1915, Zinserling 1935, Kildyushevskiy 1956, Gorchakovskii 1958, Kuvaev 1970, Dyachenko and Fomicheva 1986, Dyachenko 1997). More than 92% of the occurrence records were based on preserved samples from the Herbarium (SYKO). Some records (412) from locations adjacent to the border of the National Park were also included in the dataset.

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 steps

  1. On each herbarium label, the following fields were filled out: “Scientific name”, “Locality” (with geographic coordinates), “Habitat”, “Substrate”, “Collector name”, “Determined by” (identification), “Collection date”, and “Catalogue Number”. For the data obtained from the literature, the descriptions given by the author(s) were converted into these herbarium label fields when possible. The dataset fields’ names were chosen according to Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al. 2012) and include the following: «occurrenceID», «cаtаlogNumber», «associatedReferences», «basisOfRecord», «kingdom», «phylum», «class», «family», «genus», «scientificName», «specificEpithet», «scientificNameAuthorship», «country», «countryCode», «recordedBy», «day», «month», «year», «locality», «identifiedBy», «decimalLatitude», «decimalLongitude», «coordinatePrecision», «coordinateUncertaintyInMeters», «georeferencedBy», and «geodeticDatum». References to the published literature from which data were obtained for the checklist compilation are presented in the “citations” section of the metadata. The herbarium label data were taken from the moss collection of the Herbarium (SYKO). All occurrence records were merged into one Microsoft Excel worksheet. The species names given were determined according to the “Check-list of mosses of East Europe and North Asia” (Ignatov et al. 2006). The unique values from the “Species” field were used as a preliminary Yugyd Va National Park mosses checklist. The preliminary checklist was verified on the “taxonomic name resolution service” (Boyle et al. 2013) with the help of the “taxize” package in the R environment (Chamberlain and Szocs 2013). In most cases, georeferencing was performed using paper maps of different scales. The maps were in the Kavrayskiy projection and SK-42 reference system. Maps with a 1:500000 scale were used for obtaining coordinates with 1-minute precision (3,903 occurrences). Maps with a scale of 1:100000 were used for obtaining 1-second-precision coordinates (269 occurrences). A remaining 22 occurrences were left ungeoreferenced because of the ambiguity of the locality description. All coordinates were transformed in the WGS 84 reference system with QGIS software. The coordinate uncertainty in meters for each occurrence was calculated with the Georeferencing Calculator (Wieczorek and Wieczorek 2015).

Taxonomic Coverages

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%). The top ten families in terms of the number of species included comprise about 62% of the species. The top ten families in terms of the number of occurrences recorded comprise 77% of the occurrences. Of these two groups of top ten families, 60% were included in both groups.
  1. Bryophyta
    rank: phylum
  2. Bryopsida
    rank: class
  3. Sphagnopsida
    rank: class
  4. Polytrichopsida
    rank: class
  5. Tetraphidopsida
    rank: class
  6. Andreaeopsida
    rank: class
  7. Amblystegiaceae
    rank: family
  8. Andreaeaceae
    rank: family
  9. Aulacomniaceae
    rank: family
  10. Bartramiaceae
    rank: family
  11. Brachytheciaceae
    rank: family
  12. Bryaceae
    rank: family
  13. Buxbaumiaceae
    rank: family
  14. Calliergonaceae
    rank: family
  15. Climaciaceae
    rank: family
  16. Dicranaceae
    rank: family
  17. Ditrichaceae
    rank: family
  18. Encalyptaceae
    rank: family
  19. Fissidentaceae
    rank: family
  20. Fontinalaceae
    rank: family
  21. Funariaceae
    rank: family
  22. Grimmiaceae
    rank: family
  23. Hedwigiaceae
    rank: family
  24. Hylocomiaceae
    rank: family
  25. Hypnaceae
    rank: family
  26. Meesiaceae
    rank: family
  27. Mniaceae
    rank: family
  28. Mielichhoferiaceae
    rank: family
  29. Plagiotheciaceae
    rank: family
  30. Polytrichaceae
    rank: family
  31. Pottiaceae
    rank: family
  32. Pseudoleskeaceae
    rank: family
  33. Pylaisiaceae
    rank: family
  34. Pseudoleskeellaceae
    rank: family
  35. Rhabdoweisiaceae
    rank: family
  36. Rhytidiaceae
    rank: family
  37. Scorpidiaceae
    rank: family
  38. Sphagnaceae
    rank: family
  39. Splachnaceae
    rank: family
  40. Tetraphidaceae
    rank: family
  41. Thuidiaceae
    rank: family
  42. Timmiaceae
    rank: family

Geographic Coverages

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).

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Pole R.R. 1915. Materialy dlya poznaniya rastitelnosti severnoy Rossii. K flore mhov severnoy Rossii [Materials for knowledge of the vegetation of Northern Russia. To the flora of mosses of the North of Russia] — In: Proceedings of the Imperial Botanic garden of Peter the Great. T. 33. Vol. 1. Petrograd. 148 p. (in Russ.). - Tsinzerling Yu. D. 1935. Ocherk rastitelnosti massiva Sabli [The vegetation of the array of the ridge Sablya] — In: Ural. Pripolyarnye rayony. Tr. Lednikovykh ekspeditsiy. Vyp.4. Leningrad. P. 75–86. (in Russ.).
  2. Kildyushevskiy I. D. 1956. K flore mhov Pripolyarnogo Urala [To the moss flora of the Polar Urals] — In: Tr. Bot. in-ta im. V.L. Komarova AN SSSR. Ser 2. Sporovye rasteniya. V. 11. P. 313–332. (in Russ.). -
  3. Gorchakovskiy P. L. 1958. Rastitelnost khrebta Sabli na Pripoljarnom Urale [The vegetation of the ridge Sablya, Subpolar Urals] — In: Rastitelnost Kraynego Severa SSSR i ee osvoenie. Moscow-Leningrad. Vol. 3. P. 95–127. (in Russ.). -
  4. Kuvaev V. B. 1970. Lishayniki i mkhi Pripolyarnogo Urala i prilegayushchikh ravnin [Lichens and mosses of the polar Urals and adjacent plains] — In: Sporovye rasteniya Urala. Tr. In-ta ekol. rast. i zhivot. UrF AN SSSR. Vyp. 70. Sverdlovsk. P. 61–92. (in Russ.). -
  5. Dyachenko A. P. 1997. Flora listostebelnykh mkhov Urala. Chast 1: Istoriya izucheniya. Konspekt. Taksonomicheskiy analiz [Flora of mosses of the Urals. Part 1: History of study. Abstract. Taxonomic analysis]. Ekaterinburg. 264 p. (in Russ.). -
  6. Dyachenko A. P., Fomicheva L. N. 1986. K flore listostebelnykh mkhov naibolee poseshchaemykh territoriy khrebta Sablinskiy [Flora of mosses of the most visited areas of the Sablinskiy ridge] — In: Gornye ekosistemy Urala i problemy ratsionalnogo prirodopolzovaniya. Sverdlovsk. 18 p. (in Russ.). -
  7. Ignatov M.S., Afonina O.M., Ignatova E.A. et al. 2006. Check-list of mosses of East Europe and North Asia. Arctoa. 15: 1–130. - doi 10.15298/arctoa.15.01
  8. Krasnaya kniga Respubliki Komi [Red Data Book of the Komi Republic]. 2009. Syktyvkar 791 p. - https://ib.komisc.ru/add/rb/
  9. 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 Scott Chamberlain and Eduard Szocs (2013). taxize - taxonomic search and retrieval in R. F1000Research, 2:191. - http://f1000research.com/articles/2-191/v2
  10. Wieczorek J., Bloom D., Guralnick R., Blum S., Doring M., De Giovanni R., Robertson T., Vieglais D. 2012. Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE. 7 (1). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715. - doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
  11. 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

Contacts

Galina Zheleznova
originator
position: researcher
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212245202
email: zheleznova@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-9081-2015
Tatyana Shubina
originator
position: researcher
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212245202
email: tshubina@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-9248-2015
Svetlana Degteva
originator
position: Director
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya,28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +7821241168
email: degteva@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-9240-2015
Mikhail Rubtsov
originator
position: engineer
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212216752
email: rubtsov.m@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
Ivan Chadin
originator
position: Deputy Director
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212240525
email: chadin@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-4940-2015
Tatyana Shubina
metadata author
position: researcher
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212245202
email: tshubina@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-9248-2015
Ivan Chadin
metadata author
position: Deputy Director
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212240525
email: chadin@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-4940-2015
Tatyana Shubina
administrative point of contact
position: researcher
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kommunisticheskaya, 28
Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
Telephone: +78212245202
email: tshubina@ib.komisc.ru
homepage: https://ib.komisc.ru/en/
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/P-9248-2015
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