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New and Rare Vascular Plant Species of the Kuril Islands: Distribution, Ecology, and Population Status

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Despite the long history of floristic studies of the Kuril Islands, the central part of the Kuril archipelago, particularly Urup Island, remains poorly studied. The question of the position of Urup Island in the biogeographic and floristic subdivision systems is controversial, which seems to be due to unsufficient floristic data. Studies carried out by the authors in 2019 on the islands of Urup and Iturup provided new data about the distribution, habitats, and population status of 28 indigenous species of vascular plants, including 14 species listed in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation (2008) and the Red Data Book of the Sakhalin Oblast (2019). Myriophyllum ussuriense was first discovered in the Sakhalin Oblast and recommended for inclusion into the regional list of rare vascular plant species and the Red Data Book of the Sakhalin Oblast. Four species (Corallorhiza trifida, Pedicularis adunca, Salix arctica, and S. chamissonis) were first revealed in the southern Kuril Islands. In addition, eight species (Carex livida, Eleocharis margaritacea, Epipactis papillosa, Juncus articulatus, J. decipiens, Neottia puberula, Poa austrokurilensis, and Utricularia minor) were first found on Urup Island. Occurrence of four species (Isoëtes asiatica, Hydrangea petiolaris, Rhynchospora alba, and Salix fuscescens) on Urup Island was confirmed by new records. The data obtained confirm that Urup Island takes an intermediate position in the floristic subdivision of the Kuril archipelago and represents a transitional zone between the northern and southern Kuril Islands, which is significantly enriched by “southern” East Asian species.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The field studies on the Kuril Islands in 2019 were arranged as a part of the East Bastion–Kuril Ridge complex expedition organized by the Russian Geographical Society and the Expedition Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. We are sincerely grateful to the organizers and participants of the expedition, as well as to I.V. Belyaeva (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) for identifying the Salix species, V.Yu. Barkalov (Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences), P.G. Efimov and R.Ye. Romanov (both from the Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences), and M.G. Khoreva (Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) for consulting on the identification of some taxonomically complicated species.

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This study was carried out within the framework of the institutional research project no. АААА-А19-119031290052-1 (Vascular Plants of Eurasia: Systematics, Flora, and Plant Resources) of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.

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Glazkova, E.A., Liksakova, N.S. New and Rare Vascular Plant Species of the Kuril Islands: Distribution, Ecology, and Population Status. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 14, 128–137 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425521020049

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