Nadezhda Leonova

Lomonosov Moscow State University | MSU · Department of Biogeography

Motivation The goal of the Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA‐RU) is to unite and harmonize data of plot‐based plant species and their abundance, vegetation structure and environmental variables from the Russian Arctic. This database can be used to assess the status of the Russian Arctic vegetation and as a baseline to document biodiversity cha...

The study of natural and resource potential of officinal plants of Ciscaucasia, i.e., plants permitted for medical use by the Ministry of Health care of Russia, has been implemented using the database developed by authors of the Medical-Geographical Atlas of Russia “Healing Springs and Plants.” Ciscaucasia flora of officinal plants consist of 153 s...

The medicinal plants of the steppes are a very important source of raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry and are used widely in official and ethnic medicine. They contain higher concentrations of biologically active substances compared with equivalent species from northern habitats. “Officinal” plants (from the Latin officina—a monastery st...

The book is a biogeographic review of 35 lowland biomes from the map "The Biomes of Russia," published in a series of nature maps for high school. Concepts and approaches to classifying terrestrial ecosystems and mapping are explained. Data on ecosystem biodiversity, flora, and fauna of regional biomes are presented. The comparative geographical an...

Medicinal plants are an important natural resource of the country, used for medicine and healthcare needs. Cartographic study of the natural resource potential of medicinal plants remains an actual proposal for contemporary ecological geographical and resource researches. The paper concerns the state of medicinal plants mapping in our country, spec...

The map of "The Biomes of Russia" is the result of many years of joint work of botanists and zoologists of the Department of Biogeography in various areas and cartographic support of the extensive problem of the "Geography of biodiversity". The Biomes of Russia map illustrates the patterns of spatial differentiation of biotic cover of Russia, dete...

The research was aimed at detection of ecological and coenotic distribution regularities of Maianthemum bifolium (L.) F.W. Schmidt and Linnaea borealis L. within the northern taiga of European Russia in connection with changing natural conditions along the longitudinal gradient. The relevance of the study is due to insufficient contemporary knowled...

Prerequisites, approaches and the state-of-art in studying the spatial organization of animal and plant species ranges (structures of ranges) are discussed. Basing on the maps of the structure of forest lemming (Myopus schisticolor Lilljeborg) range are established using the criteria of the species numbers and activity. Regularities of changing con...

The article deals with modern trends in the development of biota mapping at the MSU Department of Biogeography. In the recent decade the increasing interest in biodiversity conservation, inventory, monitoring and assessment has contributed to the formation of a special thematic line in the biogeographic mapping. The thematic spectrum of maps and th...

The link between dynamics of productivity of forests and global climate change is investigated. A forecast of wood growth in specifi c scenarios of climate indicators for the middle of the 21 century is made on the basis of statistical data on the wood growth for the forest area of the European part of Russia. The relationship between the sum of ac...

The island forests of the steppe region in Central Kazakhstan are inheritors of a single forest massif, which used to have links with taiga forests of Western Siberia and with the mountain and piedmont forests of Altay during the cold and humid years of the Pleistocene. The presence of boreal and nemoral species in these forests have favored the sp...

This paper discusses the relationships of zonal vegetation boundaries with some climatic indicators. Possible changes in subzonal vegetation boundaries in the territory of European Russia and Western Siberia are forecasted within the framework of one of the global warming scenarios. The revealed regularities make it possible to suggest a mathematic...

The paper discusses connections between zonal boundaries of vegetation and productivity of forest stands and some climatic parameters. It also suggests mathematical-cartographic models of these connections. The models are used to forecast changes in the boundaries of the vegetation sub-zones and of forest stands productivity in the European Part of...

The method of ecological transects was used for studying plant-species composition in an aged artificial pine stand created on a composite spruce forest on soddy-podzolic soil (underlain by blanket loams) in the broad-leaved-spruce forest subzone (Moscow oblast). The change of edificatory tree species was followed by changes in the ecological condi...

The method of ecological transects was used for studying plant-species composition in an aged artificial pine stand created on a composite spruce forest on soddy–podzolic soil (underlain by blanket loams) in the broadleaved–spruce forest subzone (Moscow oblast). The change of edificatory tree species was followed by changes in the ecological condit...