Mosses checklist of Yugyd Va National Park, Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia

Galina Zheleznova; Tatyana Shubina; Ivan Chadin

doi:10.15468/n5fwql

Mosses checklist of Yugyd Va National Park, Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia

Citation

Zheleznova G, Shubina T, Chadin I (2018). Mosses checklist of Yugyd Va National Park, Subpolar and Northern Urals, European North-East Russia. Version 1.4. Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/n5fwql accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

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).

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

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).

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

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).

Taxonomic Coverages

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%).

Bryophyta
rank: phylum
Bryopsida
rank: class
Sphagnopsida
rank: class
Polytrichopsida
rank: class
Tetraphidopsida
rank: class
Andreaeopsida
rank: class

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).

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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
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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
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Ivan Chadin
originator
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Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Syktyvkar
167000
Komi Republic
RU
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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/
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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
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