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

• Published in: Global Ecology and Conservation
• Main Authors: Alexander S. Zernov, Alexey N. Filin, Andrey V. Shcherbakov, Jianhua Xue, Keping Ma
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Russian Caucasus; Ciscaucasia; Flora of vascular plants; History of botanical investigations; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Chechen; Russian North
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01962; https://doaj.org/article/85629d1f17cb412d93dd8080cc1c6ffc

The Ciscaucasus and the Russian North Caucasus covers an area of approximately 258.3 sq. km (≈ 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, wh...