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Corresponding author: Alexey P. Seregin (botanik.seregin@gmail.com)
Academic editor: Alexander Sennikov
Received: 14 Aug 2021 | Accepted: 09 Sep 2021 | Published: 15 Sep 2021
© 2021 Alexey P. Seregin
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Seregin AP (2021) Contribution to the "Atlas of the Russian Flora": Twelve local floras of European Russia. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e73013. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e73013
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The purpose of this dataset is to deliver to a wider audience in the form of GBIF-mediated data vast floristic materials collected by the author across various localities of European Russia from 2001-2019 (Arkhangelsk, Tver, Vladimir, Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh Oblasts, Krasnodar Krai, City of Moscow and Komi Republic). Taxonomic data on vascular plants for ten locations were mobilised from the papers and technical reports published in Russian and standardised. Floristic treatments for two locations (Yasnaya Polyana and Tsaritsyno) have never been published before.
The newly-prepared dataset includes 5,309 species records, i.e. one species record per each local flora. These are either native or alien (fully naturalised and casual) species. All records within one local flora have the same centroid coordinates and coordinate uncertainty in metres. Floristic inventories from the following locations were mobilised: 01. Ustya, Arkhangelsk Oblast (543 species, 1,500 km2); 02. Zaseki, Tula Oblast (593 species, 60 km2); 03. Polibino, Lipetsk Oblast (553 species, 70 km2); 04. Khrenovoye, Voronezh Oblast (665 species, 200 km2); 05. Troyeruchitsa, Tver Oblast (501 species, 10 km2); 06. Man-Pupu-Ner, Komi Republic (182 species, ca. 300 km2); 07. Middle Lyaga, Komi Republic (143 species, ca. 300 km2); 08. Utrish, Krasnodar Krai (933 species, 195 km2); 09. Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast (236 species, 2.2 km2); 10. Bogolyubovsky Lug, Vladimir Oblast (289 species, 1.7 km2); 11. Tsaritsyno, City of Moscow (359 species, 5.3 km2); 12. Patakino, Vladimir Oblast (312 species, 1.1 km2). According to the GBIF taxonomic backbone, the dataset covers 1,806 species, 669 genera and 127 families of tracheophytes.
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For the last 20 years, the author thoroughly studied under various circumstances vascular plants in several locations across European Russia. These contributions include twelve local floras — five places of summer field trips of Lomonosov Moscow State University students (Ustya, Zaseki, Polibino, Khrenovoye and Utrish) and seven locations in legally-protected areas (Man-Pupu-Ner and Middle Lyaga in Pechoro-Ilych Reserve, Troyeruchitsa, Yasnaya Polyana, Bogolyubovsky Lug, Tsarirsyno and Patakino). This is a step towards the "Atlas of the Russian Flora" currently prepared under my supervision.
This local flora covers the largest area ca. 1,500 km2. It is situated in the taiga zone (boreal evergreen conifer forests) along the southern border of Arkhangelsk Oblast. The primary mobilised source (
The Ustya flora is well documented by vouchers deposited at MWG Herbarium (Herbarium of Biogeography Department, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University), including 232 specimens collected by the author in 2001 and 149 specimens in 2002 (collector's numbers from N-1 to N-380), as well as earlier collections by the department's staff. Unfortunately, there are no digitisation activities in this Herbarium at the moment.
This local flora (60 km2) was studied around the permanent camping site of the summer field practice of Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is situated in the broadleaved forest zone (temperate deciduous hardwood forests) in Shchekino District, Tula Oblast. Two published sources were mobilised (
The Zaseki flora is poorly documented by vouchers with the focus on common plants intensively collected by the students. The main herbarium set by the author is deposited at MHA Herbarium (Skvortsov Herbarium of Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Only 15% of Eastern Europe holdings of this herbarium have been digitised so far (
This local flora (70 km2) was also studied around the permanent camping site of the summer field practice of Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is situated in the forest-and-steppe zone (an ecotone between temperate deciduous hardwood forests and dry temperate grasslands) in Dankov District, Lipetsk Oblast along the Don River. Two published sources were mobilised (
The Polibino flora is unevenly documented by vouchers with focus on common plants and species of grasslands intensively collected by the students. The main herbarium set by the author is deposited at MW Herbarium (Herbarium of Lomonosov Moscow State University). This Herbarium is completely digitised at the moment and fully available online (
This local flora (200 km2) was studied within the borders of the northern part of Khrenovskoy Bor (Khrenovoye Pine Forest) near the permanent camping site of the summer field practice of Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is situated on southern edge of the forest-and-steppe zone (an ecotone between temperate deciduous hardwood forests and dry temperate grasslands) in Bobrov District, Voronezh Oblast along the Bityug River. The mobilised primary source (
The Khrenovoye flora is poorly documented by vouchers, because the student excursions are not allowed to enter the pine forest in a fire-risk summer period. The main herbarium set by the author is deposited in MW Herbarium (Herbarium of Lomonosov Moscow State University). The related occurrences from the MW GBIF-mediated dataset (
The flora of isolated pine forests of Voronezh Oblast is extraordinarily rich. For instance,
This local flora (10 km2) was studied within the borders of the Troyeruchitsa State Nature Reserve and three adjacent settlements. It is situated in the taiga zone (boreal evergreen conifer forests) in Ostashkov District, Tver Oblast along the eastern coast of Lake Seliger. The mobilised primary source (
The Troyeruchitsa flora was not documented properly by herbarium vouchers. The related occurrences from the MW GBIF-mediated dataset (
These two local floras (ca. 300 km2) were studied within the borders of Man-Pupu-Ner and Middle Lyaga floristic divisions of Pechoro-Ilych State Reserve (
The Man-Pupu-Ner flora was fairly-well documented by herbarium vouchers, whereas a checklist for the Middle Lyaga division was primarily based upon vegetation relevés. The related occurrences from the MW GBIF-mediated dataset (
This local flora (195 km2) stretches along the coastal zone of Abrau Peninsula from Sukko to Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka. It includes the Navagir Range, the westernmost spur of the Caucasus in Anapa and Novorossiysk Districts, Krasnodar Krai. The area shelters the relic ecosystems of arid sub-Mediterranean forests.
The first detailed floristic data on the flora of the Abrau Peninsula were published by
Tutors and students of the Biogeography Department, Moscow State University have been visiting annually the Utrish area for studies in field camps since 1997. A preliminary checklist of the area included 485 species, based upon collections and observations from 1997-1999 and was published as a brief manual for students (
The Utrish flora is precisely documented by vouchers deposited in the MWG Herbarium (Herbarium of Biogeography Department, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University). By 2015, there were 2,970 specimens from the Utrish area in MWG (
This small local flora (2.2 km2) was studied within the borders of the Leo Tolstoy memorial estate. It is situated in the broadleaved forest zone (temperate deciduous hardwood forests) in Shchekino District, Tula Oblast. The list of vascular plants from this location was never published as either a paper or a technical report. Currently, it includes 236 species recorded by the author in 2014 and 2017. The centroid of the flora is located near Tolstoy's tomb with proposed coordinate uncertainty 1,000 m.
The Yasnaya Polyana flora was not documented by vouchers during the author's field surveys, but some specimens from this location, collected by other botanists, can be found in TUL and MW GBIF-mediated datasets. For instance, 710 digitised specimens of 264 wild and cultivated species from Yasnaya Polyana are deposited at TUL Herbarium (
This small local flora (1.7 km2) was studied within the borders of the historical landscape complex "Bogolyubovsky Meadow - Church of the Intercession on the Nerl", a site with a legal status of the regional protected area. This is a large managed meadow, situated in the flood plain of the Klyazma River in the ecotone zone of mixed broadleaved and conifer forest near Bogolyubovo, Vladimir Oblast. The list of vascular plants from this location was never published as a paper, but was available online as a technical report (
The Bogolyubovsky Lug flora was poorly documented by vouchers during the author's field surveys with only 11 specimens of ten species available in the MW Herbarium dataset (
This small local flora (5.3 km2) was studied within the borders of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Estate, a site with a legal status of the regional protected area (as part of Tsaritsyno Nature Reserve). This is a large old park with a number of ponds, large lawns and managed meadows in the Southern Administrative Okrug, City of Moscow, situated in the ecotone zone of mixed broadleaved and conifer forests. The list of vascular plants from this location was never published as either a paper or a technical report. Currently, it includes 359 species recorded by the author in 2019.
The Tsaritsyno flora was not documented by herbarium vouchers during the author's field surveys, although a dataset of georeferenced photos made in 2019 was uploaded on iNaturalist. Thereby, photo vouchers of 773 observations of 337 species are available on GBIF (
This small local flora (1.1 km2) was studied within the borders of the Patakinskaya Grove Nature Sanctuary, a site with a legal status of regional protected area. The area includes a broadleaved forest on a steep south-faced slope of the Klyazma River valley and an adjacent birch forest. The sanctuary is situated in the ecotone zone of mixed broadleaved and conifer forests near Patakino, Kameshkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast. The list of vascular plants from this location was never published as a paper, but was available online as a technical report (
The Patakino flora was poorly documented by vouchers during the author's field surveys with only 20 specimens of 19 species available in MW Herbarium dataset (
The purpose of this dataset (
First of all, I selected for this dataset two thoroughly surveyed floras from small protected areas of Vladimir Oblast which have more precise georeferences than in the recently updated grid dataset (
Taxonomic data from these sources were mobilised, standardised and finally published as a GBIF-mediated dataset. It includes 5,309 species records (one species record per each local flora). These are either native or alien (fully naturalised and casual) species. Cultivated species were not recorded by the author. All records within one local flora have the same centroid coordinates and position accuracy (i.e. coordinate uncertainty in metres). See Table
Number | Local flora | Region | Number of taxa | Latitude of the centroid | Longitude of the centroid | Coordinate uncertainty in metres | Area in square kilometres | Mobilised source |
01 | Ustya | Arkhangelsk Oblast | 543 |
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21,000 | 1,500 |
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02 | Zaseki | Tula Oblast | 593 |
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8,000 | 60 | |
03 | Polibino | Lipetsk Oblast | 553 |
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7,000 | 70 | |
04 | Khrenovoye | Voronezh Oblast | 665 |
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15,000 | 200 |
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05 | Troyeruchitsa | Tver Oblast | 501 |
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3,000 | 10 |
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06 | Man-Pupu-Ner | Komi Republic | 182 |
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8,500 | ca. 300 |
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07 | Middle Lyaga | Komi Republic | 143 |
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10,000 | ca. 300 |
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08 | Utrish | Krasnodar Krai | 933 |
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17,000 | 195 |
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09 | Yasnaya Polyana | Tula Oblast | 236 |
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1,000 | 2.2 | previously unpublished |
10 | Bogolyubovsky Lug | Vladimir Oblast | 289 |
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1,100 | 1.7 |
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11 | Tsaritsyno | City of Moscow | 359 |
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2,000 | 5.3 | previously unpublished |
12 | Patakino | Vladimir Oblast | 312 |
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1,000 | 1.1 |
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The nomenclature of the dataset follows the original mobilised sources. As a rule, they were based upon standard regional floras and checklists.
Twelve local floras are situated in various places across European Russia. Their locations are given on the map (Fig.
Distribution of the sampled local floras across European Russia: 01 - Ustya, Arkhangelsk Oblast; 02 - Zaseki, Tula Oblast; 03 - Polibino, Lipetsk Oblast; 04 - Khrenovoye, Voronezh Oblast; 05 - Troyeruchitsa, Tver Oblast; 06 - Man-Pupu-Ner, Komi Republic; 07 - Middle Lyaga, Komi Republic; 08 - Utrish, Krasnodar Krai; 09 - Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast; 10 - Bogolyubovsky Lug, Vladimir Oblast; 11 - Tsaritsyno, City of Moscow; 12 - Patakino, Vladimir Oblast. Source:
Brief general information about the studied areas is given in Table
44 and 63 Latitude; 33 and 60 Longitude.
According to the GBIF taxonomic backbone, the dataset covers 1,806 species, 669 genera and 127 families of tracheophytes.
Phylum Tracheophyta.
2001 to 2019
Twelve local floras of European Russia studied and documented from 2001-2019 by Dr. Alexey P. Seregin: Ustya (Arkhangelsk Oblast), Zaseki (Tula Oblast), Polibino (Lipetsk Oblast), Khrenovoye (Voronezh Oblast), Troyeruchitsa (Tver Oblast), Man-Pupu-Ner (Komi Republic), Middle Lyaga (Komi Republic), Utrish (Krasnodar Krai), Yasnaya Polyana (Tula Oblast), Bogolyubovsky Lug (Vladimir Oblast), Tsaritsyno (City of Moscow) and Patakino (Vladimir Oblast).
Column label | Column description |
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occurrenceID | An identifier for the Occurrence (as opposed to a particular digital record of the occurrence). A variable constructed from a combination of three identifiers in the record that will most closely make the occurrenceID globally unique (datasetID + ID of a local flora + ID of a record within the local flora). For example, "urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15550:10:01:100". |
dcterms:type | The nature or genre of the resource. A constant ("Dataset"). |
dcterms:modified | The most recent date-time on which the resource was changed. A constant ("2021-08-11"). |
dcterms:language | A language of the resource. A constant ("en" = English) |
dcterms:license | A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. A constant ("http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"). |
dcterms:rightsHolder | A person or organisation owning or managing rights over the resource. A constant ("Moscow State University"). |
dcterms:accessRights | Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. A constant ("Use under CC BY 4.0"). |
institutionID | An identifier for the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record. A constant ("http://grbio.org/institution/moscow-stateuniversity" for the Moscow Sate University). |
collectionID | An identifier for the collection or dataset from which the record was derived. A constant ("urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15550" for the Moscow University Herbarium). |
datasetID | An identifier for the set of data. May be a global unique identifier or an identifier specific to a collection or institution. A constant ("urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15550:10"). |
institutionCode | The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record. A constant ("Moscow State University"). |
datasetName | The name identifying the dataset from which the record was derived. A constant ("Twelve local floras of European Russia"). |
ownerInstitutionCode | The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having ownership of the object(s) or information referred to in the record. A constant ("Moscow State University"). |
basisOfRecord | The specific nature of the data record - a subtype of the dcterms:type. A constant ("HumanObservation"). |
informationWithheld | Additional information that exists, but that has not been shared in the given record. A variable. For example, "Associated ecological data and frequency estimate", "Associated ecological data, frequency estimate and a year of the record", "Voucher reference". |
catalogNumber | An identifier (preferably unique) for the record within the dataset or collection. A variable. For example, "Ustya:100" (a species with a number #100 within the list of Ustya local flora). |
recordedBy | A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups or organisations responsible for recording the original occurrence. A variable. For example, "Alexey P. Seregin". |
occurrenceStatus | A statement about the presence or absence of a taxon at a location. A constant ("present"). |
associatedReferences | A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers (publication, bibliographic reference, global unique identifier, URI) of literature associated with the Occurrence. A variable. For example, "Seregin, A.P. (2014): Floristic records from Man-Pupu-Nyor Range and adjacent paths (Pechora-Ilych Reserve, Republic of Komi, Russia). Fitoraznoobrazie Vostochnoy Evropy 8 (2), 97–105 (in Russian, with English abstract)". |
eventDate | The date or interval during which an event occurred. For occurrences, this is the date when the event was recorded. A variable. |
higherGeography | A list (concatenated and separated) of geographic names less specific than the information captured in the locality term. A variable (for example, "Europe | Russian Federation | Vladimir Oblast"). |
continent | The name of the continent in which the location occurs. A constant ("Europe"). |
country | The name of the country or major administrative unit in which the location occurs. A constant ("Russian Federation"). |
countryCode | The standard code for the country in which the location occurs. A constant ("RU"). |
stateProvince | The name of the next smaller administrative region than country (state, province, canton, department, region etc.) in which the location occurs. A variable (for example, "Krasnodar Krai"). |
locality | The specific description of the place. This term may contain information modified from the original to correct perceived errors or standardise the description. A variable (twelve options: "Bogolyubovsky Lug", "Khrenovoye", "Man-Pupu-Ner", "Middle Lyaga", "Patakino", "Polibino", "Troyeruchitsa", "Tsaritsyno", "Ustya", "Utrish", "Yasnaya Polyana", "Zaseki"). |
decimalLatitude | The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference systemgiven in geodeticDatum) of the geographic centre of a location. A variable (latitude of a local flora centroid). |
decimalLongitude | The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference systemgiven in geodeticDatum) of the geographic centre of a location. A variable (longitude of a local flora centroid). |
geodeticDatum | The ellipsoid, geodetic datum or spatial reference system (SRS) upon which the geographic coordinates given in decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude are based. A constant ("WGS84"). |
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | The horizontal distance (in metres) from the given decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude describing the smallest circle containing the whole of the location. A variable. For example, "16000" in Khrenovoye local flora. |
coordinatePrecision | A decimal representation of the precision of the coordinates given in the decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude. A constant ("0.0001"). |
georeferencedBy | A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups or organisations who determined the georeference (spatial representation) of the location. A constant ("Alexey P. Seregin"). |
georeferencedDate | The date on which the Location was georeferenced. A constant ("2021-08-10"). |
georeferenceSources | A list (concatenated and separated) of maps, gazetteers, or other resources used to georeference the Location, described specifically enough to allow anyone in the future to use the same resources. A constant ("https://yandex.ru/maps/"). |
identifiedBy | A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups or organisations who assigned the Taxon to the subject. A variable (for example, "Alexey P. Seregin"). |
scientificName | The full scientific name, with authorship and date information, if known. A variable (for example, "Scirpus sylvaticus L."). |
nameAccordingTo | For taxa that result from identifications, a reference to the keys, monographs, experts and other sources should be given. A variable. |
kingdom | The full scientific name of the kingdom in which the taxon is classified. A constant ("Plantae"). |
phylum | The full scientific name of the phylum or division in which the taxon is classified. A constant ("Tracheophyta"). |
genus | The full scientific name of the genus in which the taxon is classified. A variable (for example, "Scirpus"). |
specificEpithet | The name of the first or species epithet of the scientificName. A variable (for example, "sylvaticus"). |
infraspecificEpithet | The name of the lowest or terminal infraspecific epithet of the scientificName, excluding any rank designation. A variable (for example, "ucrainicum"). |
taxonRank | The taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientificName. A variable (four options: "species", "subspecies", "genus", "speciesAggregate"). |
scientificNameAuthorship | The authorship information for the scientificName formatted according to the conventions of the applicable nomenclaturalCode. A variable (for example, "(L.) Roem. et Schult."). |
nomenclaturalCode | The nomenclatural code (or codes in the case of an ambiregnal name) under which the scientificName is constructed. A constant ("International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants"). |
taxonomicStatus | The status of the use of the scientificName as a label for a taxon. A constant ("accepted"). |
identificationQualifier | A brief phrase or a standard term to express the determiner's doubts about the Identification. A variable (two options: "sensu lato", "sensu stricto"). |
The study was supported by the grant from Russian Science Foundation (project # 21-77-20042) for georeferencing, data procession and publication of the GBIF-mediated dataset.
Field data from the City of Moscow were mobilised under the research project # 21-34-70003, funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Moscow City Government.
Field data from two local floras of Tula Oblast were mobilised under the research project # 19-44-710002, funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Tula Oblast Government.
Field data from Krasnodar Krai were mobilised under the research project # 19-44-233012, funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Krasnodar Krai Government.
The author thanks Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia for support of CCU "Herbarium MBG RAS" (i.e. MHA Herbarium).
All stages of the work were performed by Dr. A. P. Seregin.