Vladimir E. Fedosov

• DSc, 2015; PhD, 2008
• Fellow at Lomonosov Moscow State University

We revised the Holarctic taxa of Ditrichaceae on the basis of both organellar DNA sequence data and morphological traits. After the removal of phylogenetically discordant elements related to Flexitrichum and Rhamphidium , the remaining representatives of the family cluster into three well‐supported lineages, which are recognized here as the reinsta...

A survey of the moss flora of the southernmost part of the Russian Primorsky Territory yielded several intriguing taxa, whose identity is assessed herein based on an integrative morpho-molecular approach. Bellibarbula recurva was previously known in inland Asia only from the Sino-Himalayan region and the new locality is distant from the earlier kno...

Marsupella minutissima was recorded for the first time outside of Japan in Jeju-do in the Republic of Korea. The new data significantly improve the knowledge of the species distribution. An analysis of the phylogenetic affinities of the species based on nuclear ITS and plastid trnL-trnF regions showed that it is resolved within the clade correspond...

The first records for Russia of one species of siphonous yellow-green algae, ascomycete, and lichenicolous fungus, and the first records for regions of Russia: nine species of siphonous yellow-green alga for the Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Moscow, Volgograd regions, two diatom species for the Tyumen Region, nine species of basidiomycetes for the Novgor...

The exploration of liverworts on Bering Island (the westernmost Aleutians) has revealed plants assigned to the recently described and previously monotypic Konstantinovia, previously known only from Yunnan Province of China, and belonging to the bigeneric Obtusifoliaceae. The collected plants are described here as Konstantinovia beringii sp. nov. Th...

How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural and human-altered ecosystems across all continents, we illustrate the distributions and drivers of different lev...

How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural and human-altered ecosystems across all continents, we illustrate the distributions and drivers of different lev...

New data on the distribution of Ditrichum divaricatum Mitt. are presented. This species was described from Japan and previously known also from South Korea and China; it is identified in collections from Russia (Transbaikalia, Suntar-Khayata Mt. Range in Yakutia, and the Kamchatka Peninsula) and from Alaska (USA). Most specimens from Russia were pr...

As a result of identification the moss collections from Shikotan, Kunashir, Iturup and Urup islands (Southern Kuril Islands, Russian Far East) collected by T.I. Koroteeva, V.E. Fedosov, A.V. Shkurko, N.S. Liksakova, and A.K. Ezhkin in 2015–2021, new species for the islands were revealed: 6 ones for Urup, 8 for Iturup, 10 for Kunashir, and 19 for Sh...

The recent molecular phylogenetic study of the families Aongstroemiaceae and Dicranellaceae, which resolved the genera Aongstroemia and Dicranella as polyphyletic, indicated the need for changes in their circumscription and provided new morphological evidence to support the formal description of newly recognized lineages. Following up on these resu...

Revision of the genus Oncophorus s. str. in Russia based on throughout study of extensive materials kept in LE, MAG, MHA, MW, IRK, KRABG, NSK, PTZ and UUH was carried out. The genus is represented in Russia by two species, O. integerrimus and O. virens. New subspecies, O. virens subsp. minor has been revealed and described based on integrative morp...

This paper addresses the genetic delimitation of narrowly distributed Scapania magadanica and broadly circumpolar S. kaurinii. The phylogenetic trees based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference constructed for one of the most informative loci (ITS1‒2) showed that Scapania magadanica was deeply nested within the clade of S. kaurinii. The comp...

Brief reports of mosses and liverworts new or rare for certain regions

The genus Campylopus in Russia is revisited based on molecular phylogenetic data, which included also European accessions originated from vicinities of the loci classici of several species. Eight species are proved to occur in Russia, among which C. schimperi is widespread in montane areas throughout the country, while other species are known from...

Recent field studies in the Ussurijsky State Reserve brought numerous records of very rare species not found in the area before. Oxyrhynchium vagans is found in Russia for the first time. Collection of Ignatovia microphylla, recently described from the Lozovy Range in Primorsky Territory is the second one for this genus. Symblepharis crispifolia wa...

Sphagnum henryense (subg. Sphagnum) differs from S. palustre in having abundant small pores on the dorsal surface of branch leaves. Recently studies usually consider it as a doubtful species or even merely a synonym of S. palustre. We revealed S. palustre-like plants, with numerous small round pores very similar to those of S. henryense in collecti...

Data on the moss flora of Tokinsky Stanovik are presented. This is a hard-to-reach and little-studied mountainous area, including a territory of the recently organized Tokinsko-Stanovoy National Park. We collected mosses in 2018-2021. Original field materials supplemented by published data resulted in an annotated checklist of 338 species and one v...

Introduction The diversity of the moss genus Glyphomitrium Brid. is concentrated in East Asia. Its range extends to the southern part of the Russian Far East, where its species are rather widespread in hemiboreal coniferous forests. However, the species to which Russian specimens should be assigned remains unclear. Methods A morphological survey w...

Four species of moss genus Schistidium are reported for the first time from China. All of them have been found in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Ecological and distributional details of the newly recorded species are provided and their local distribution is mapped. Photographs of the species are attached. Checklist of Schistidium species an...

The check-list of mosses of the northern part of the Russian Far East includes 730 species and 13 additional infraspecific taxa with references on their distribution in eleven floristic regions within Chukotka Autonomous district, Kamchatsky Territory, Magadan Province and northern part of Khabarovsk Territory. Number of taxa, reported from regions...

Fungi are highly diverse organisms, which provide multiple ecosystem services. However, compared with charismatic animals and plants, the distribution patterns and conservation needs of fungi have been little explored. Here we used high‐resolution sequencing to assess endemicity patterns, global change vulnerability and conservation priority areas...

A new combination, Encalypta robbinsii (Sainsbury) Brinda, Ignatov & Fedosov, is established as the correct name for the taxon long known as Bryobartramia novae-valesiae (Broth. ex G. Roth) I. G. Stone & G. A. M. Scott.

Introduction. We report the results of an international bryological expedition to the Khamar- Daban mountain range in Russian southern Siberia. The novel approach of integrative floristics is introduced here as a method of surveying the flora of a region by using a combination of morphological and molecular evidence to identify and verify unexpecte...

We present an integrative molecular and morphological study of subaquatic representatives of the genus Pseudohygrohypnum (Pylaisiaceae, Bryophyta), supplemented by distribution modelling of the revealed phylogenetic lineages. Phylogenetic analyses of nuclear and plastid datasets combined with the assemble species by automatic partitioning (ASAP) al...

Species delimitation is problematic in many plant groups and among the mosses, Sphagnum is one of the more contentious genera because of high levels of morphological variation. The allopolyploid species, Sphagnum majus, comprises one such problematic complex. Two morphologically differentiated but overlapping subspecies have been described. We cond...

Fungi play pivotal roles in ecosystem functioning, but little is known about their global patterns of diversity, endemicity, vulnerability to global change drivers and conservation priority areas. We applied the high-resolution PacBio sequencing technique to identify fungi based on a long DNA marker that revealed a high proportion of hitherto unkno...

On the southern periphery of Badzhal Mountain Range on, an area of about 25 sq. km, we found 313 species of mosses, listed here with distribution along with the altitudinal belts, ecotopes, and substrates. Among them, 73 species are newly recorded for the middle part of Khabarovsk Territory, and 39 of them are new to the whole Khabarovsk Territory,...

The study considers the phylogenetic affinities and taxonomical placement of the previously unknown hepatic from Hengduan Mts. in Yunnan Province of China. This area is known to house a vast assemblage of peculiar and taxonomically secluded taxa of hepatics, serving as kind of storehouse of missing links in the evolution. The newly recorded taxon c...

Fungi are highly important biotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, but we still have a very limited understanding about their diversity and distribution. This data article releases a global soil fungal dataset of the Global Soil Mycobiome consortium (GSMc) to boost further research in fungal diversity, biogeography and macroecology. The datase...

A new genus is described to accommodate Neodicranella hamulosa, a novel species resolved in the family Aongstroemiaceae, from the Monchiquense district in SW Portugal. Characterized by its small size, erect spreading to subsecund non-sheathing leaves, plane bistratose leaf margins, and rhizoidal gemmae with slightly protruberant cells, it differs f...

Sofronova E.V., Afonina O.M., Belyakov E.A., Bezgodov A.G., Birykova O.V., Boychuk M.A., Czernyadjeva I.V., Doroshina G.Ya., Dulin M.V., Fedosov V.E., Freydin G.L., Guziev Kh.Yu., Ignatov M.S., Ishchenko Yu.S., Ivanova K.A., Kapitonova O.A., Kukurichkin G.M., Kuzmina E.Yu., Lavrentiev M.V., Maksimov A.I., Philippov D.A., Popova N.N., Shestakova A.A...

New records of 48 species of mosses and liverworts are presented, with detailed notes on their taxonomy, distribution, and ecological characteristics. These findings provide valuable insights for advancing research in biogeography, ecology, and conservation.

The new genus Protoharpanthus is described from the Salween River Basin in the Hengduan Mountains, Sino-Himalaya. The genus superficially resembles Lophocolea or slightly even Calypogeia, but phylogenetically is quite far from both and belongs to the oligotypic Harpanthaceae. The new genus is a shining example of parallelism in the evolution of liv...

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a globally distributed group of soil organisms that play critical roles in ecosystem function. However, the ecological niches of individual AM fungal taxa are poorly understood. We collected > 300 soil samples from natural ecosystems worldwide and modelled the realised niches of AM fungal virtual taxa (VT;...

An early-branched moss Polytrichum commune is a widely accepted model object for ecological, environmental, physiological, and genetic studies. Its mitochondrial genome has been sequenced and annotated. The genome contains 67 genes in total and has a length equal to 114,831 bp, which exceeds the length of most known mitochondrial genomes for mosses...

Haplolepideous moss systematics has been through major changes based on morpho-molecular studies. However, many taxa remain little studied with still unclear circumscriptions and relationships among the traditionally recognized families. We inferred the phylogenetic relationships of the haplolepideous mosses based on a sample of 37 out of the 38 ha...

There are very few publications on the classification of mountain mire vegetation in Russia. Several associations in the Southern Siberia mountains (Lapshina, 1996; Lashchinsky, 2009) and the Khibiny Mountains (Koroleva, 2001) are described. Mire vegetation in the Southern Urals is relatively well studied and described in the traditions of the ecol...

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...

We studied in detail a moss-lichen component of Shokalsky Island vegetation for the first time and identified 79 species of mosses and 54 species and 2 subspecies of lichens and licheni-colous fungi. All species of mosses and 23 species and 2 subspecies of lichens and lichenicolous fungi are recorded for the first time for the island. The study is...

First records of chrysophytes for the North-Western Russia and the Leningrad Region, fungi for the Pskov Region, lichens for Svalbard and the Altai Territory, bryophytes for the Far East, Arkhangelsk, Saratov, Voronezh and Sakhalin regions, the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, the Republic of Altai, the New Siber...

Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions of Rhabdoweisiaceae based on plastid (trnS-rps4 and trnL-F) and mitochondrial (nad5) DNA sequences and a comprehensive taxon sampling were performed, including 15 out of 16 genera currently attributed to the family, taxa recently found belonging to Rhabdoweisiaceae and expanded outgroups from related families...

Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions of Rhabdoweisiaceae based on plastid (trnS-rps4 and trnL-F) and mitochondrial (nad5) DNA sequences and a comprehensive taxon sampling were performed, including 15 out of 16 genera currently attributed to the family, taxa recently found belonging to Rhabdoweisiaceae and expanded outgroups from related families...

Sofronova E.V., Afonina O.M., Baisheva E.Z., Bersanova A.N., A.G. Bezgodov, Boychuk M.A., Degtyarev N.I., Doroshina G.Ya., Dulin M.V., Fedosov V.E., Gainutdinov I.A., Grishutkin O.G., Ignatov M.S., Ignatova E.A., Khramtsov V.N., Koroleva N.E., Kozhin M.N., Kuzmina E.Yu., Lavrentiev M.V., Philippov D.A., Popov S.Yu., Popova N.N., Prokin A.A., Rukavi...

The taxonomic diversity center of Schistochilopsis is in East Asia, where the genus also shows the highest genetic diversity and morphological plasticity. The integrative survey of Schistochilopsis in East Asia was the main goal of the present account. Plant materials were obtained from recent collections made by authors in various parts of amphi-P...

Moss cover plays an important role in shaping the thermodynamic and biogeochemical functioning of ecosystems at high latitudes, where it is the dominant vegetation type. It reduces the heat transfer through the soil-atmosphere interface and between deep levels of the active layer, which leads to a decrease in the thickness of the seasonally thawed...

Sofronova E.V., Afonina O.M., Antipin V.K., Belkina O.A., Boychuk M.A., Czernyadjeva I.V., Doroshina G.Ya., Dyachenko A.P., Fedosov V.E., Ignatov M.S., Ignatova E.A., Kholod S.S., Kolesnikova M.A., Koltysheva D.E., Komarova A.S., Konstantinova N.A., Koroleva N.E., Koroteeva T.I., Kozhin M.N., Kudr E.V., Kuzmina E.Yu., Lavrentiev M.V., Mamontov Yu.S...

"Flora of Moscow" Information System on Moscow Digital Herbarium web-platform (Russian-language presentation) ABSTRACT. In the first year (until 15 Oct 2019), the work on the project went towards the accumulation and structuring of electronic data on the diversity of vascular plants in Moscow. The first block of activities was related to the proc...

This Red List is a summary of the conservation status of the European species of mosses, liverworts and hornworts, collectively known as bryophytes, evaluated according to IUCN’s Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional Level. It provides the first comprehensive, region-wide assessment of bryophytes and it identifies those s...