Mapping Asia plants: Floristic studies of the Russian Caucasus at the regional level

The Ciscaucasus and the Russian North Caucasus covers an area of approximately 258.3 sq. km (approximate to 1.5% of Russia's total area) with a length from north-east to south-west of - 350 km, and from north-west to south-east of - 1100 km. Systematic floristic studies of this area began in th...

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Published in:Global Ecology and Conservation
Main Authors: Zernov, Alexander S., Filin, Alexey N., Shcherbakov, Andrey, V, Xue, Jianhua, Ma, Keping
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ELSEVIER 2022
Subjects:
Russian Caucasus
Ciscaucasia
Flora of vascular plants
History of botanical investigations
Biodiversity Conservation
Ecology
ADDITIONS
FLORA
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
Chechen
Russian North
Online Access:http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/28998
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01962
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Summary:The Ciscaucasus and the Russian North Caucasus covers an area of approximately 258.3 sq. km (approximate to 1.5% of Russia's total area) with a length from north-east to south-west of - 350 km, and from north-west to south-east of - 1100 km. Systematic floristic studies of this area began in the 19th century, when Lipsky (1899) for the first time compiled a complete Flora of the Caucasus., which numbered 4430 species. A very important source of the first half of the 20th century is Flora Caucasica Critica (Kuznetsov et al., 1901-1916, not finished). The most important modern sources of floristic information in this territory are the Flora of the Caucasus (Grossheim, 1936-1967, not finished) and Synopsis of the Flora of the Caucasus (Takhtadzhyan, 2003-2012, not finished). The most important macro-regional and regional floristic reviews: Manual-key to Higher Plants of the Northwestern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia (Kosenko, 1970), Flora of the North Caucasus (Galushko, 1978-1980), 3th edition of Stavropol Flora Checklist (Ivanov, 2005), Flora of the Northwest Caucasus (Zernov, 2006); Dagestan Flora Checklist (Murtazaliev, 2009), Illustrated Flora of the South of the Russian Black Sea Region (Zernov, 2013), Vegetation Cover of Kabardino-Balkaria (Shkhagapsoev, 2015), Manual-key to Vascular Plants of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (Zernov et al., 2015). From 9 regions of the Ciscaucasus and the Russian North Caucasus, 6 have high-quality flora or synopses of flora, 1 region studied at the average level, and 2 - are problematic. In the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, floristic research focuses on invasive plants, and we do not have rich information about the Chechen Republic.

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