Weeds

Area of distribution and weediness of Russian Knapweed (Acroptilon repens DC.)

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Authors:

Specialist-biologist - O.E. Kravchenko,
GIS-specialist - I.A. Budrevskaya.

Date of creation:

15.09.2004.

Scale:

1:20 000 000.

Accuracy of map:

Map was created based on materials of map of natural scale 1:40 000 000-1:55 000 000 and on literature data.

Projection:

"Alber's Equal Area Conic for the USSR", 9, 1001, 7, 100, 0, 44, 68, 0, 0.

Basic contents:

Vector map. Area of species distribution is shown by polygons, and sporadic distribution by points. Zones of weediness are shown by polygons.

Accuracy of classifier:

The weed area is subdivided into two zones, one representing the species distribution, and the second where the weed is considered a serious pest. Points represent locations where sporadic occurrence has been reported. Russian Knapweed is a quarantine object, so based on the work of Moskalenko (2001) we consider it as a harmful object within the zone of main distribution in the limits of agricultural lands.

Method of map production:

Published literature was reviewed, including Atlases, monographs and papers. Occurrence data were obtained from herbarium specimens, floras, monographs and papers. The species map from Volkov (1935) was used as a prototype. It was supplemented with the data of Moskalenko (2001) from Russia. Adjustments were made according to the references from the list below, materials from the Herbarium of weed plants in VIR and the database edited by Petrosyan et al. (1993). Data were then compiled through scanning and geo-referencing to develop a composite vector map. The biologist, together with the GIS specialist, drew a composite weed distribution area based on compiled data.

Reference citations:

Geideman, T.S. 1954. Keys to plants of Moldavian SSR. Moscow-Leningrad. 468 pp. (In Russian)
Government of the Russian Federation. 2003. The decision from March 31, 2003. List of pests, agents of diseases, and weeds, which have the quarantine status for the Russian Federation. Quarantine objects, which seldom meet in territory of the Russian Federation: (In Russian).
Gubanov I.A., Kiseleva K.V., Novikov V.S., Tikhomirov V.N. 1995. Keys to vascular plants of the center of the European Russia. Moscow. 560 pp. (In Russian)
Kharkevich S.S., ed. 1992. Vascular plants of the Soviet Far East. V. 6. Saint Petersburg: Nauka. 428 pp. (In Russian)
Kott S.A. 1955. Weed plants and their control. 2nd edition. Moscow: Selkhosgiz. 384 pp. (In Russian)
Maltsev A.I. 1937. Atlas of the major species of weed plants of the USSR. V. 1. Moscow-Leningrad: Selkhosgiz. 168 pp. (In Russian)
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Production of Ukraine. 1992. The decision from June 19, 1992. Extraction from the list of pests, diseases of plants and weeds, which have the quarantine status in Ukraine. The quarantine organisms, which seldom met in territory of Ukraine: http://www.pole-port.dp.ua/doc/gosty/se3.htm ,
http://uga-port.org.ua/cgi-bin/valmenu_portal.sh?0p18021206.html (In Russian).
Moskalenko G.P. 2001. Quarantine weeds of Russia. Moscow: Rosgoskarantin. 280 pp. (In Russian)
N.I. Vavilov of Plant Industry [WIR], St. Petersburg, Russia.
Petrosyan V.G., Korneeva T.M., Nukhimovskaya Yu.D., Pavlov A.V., Bessonov S.A. 2004. Information search system on flora and fauna in reservations of Russia. http://www.sevin.ru/natreserves/content4.html (In Russian)
Shishkin B.K., Grubov V.I., eds. 1966. Keys to plants of Bashkir ASSR. Moscow -Leningrad: Nauka. 496 pp. (In Russian)
Syusev P.V. 1912. Abstract of flora of Ural within the limits of the Perm Region. Materials to knowledge of flora and fauna of Russian Empire. Rel. 7. Moscow. 206 pp. (In Russian)
Tolmachev, A.I., ed. 1977. Flora of North-East of the European part of the USSR. V. 4. Leningrad: Nauka. 312 pp. (In Russian)
Tsvelev, N.N. 2000. Keys to the vascular plants of North-Western Russia (Leningrad, Pskov and Novgorod Regions). Saint Petersburg. 781 pp. (In Russian)
Volkov A.N., ed. 1935. Areas of distribution of the major weed plants in the USSR. Moscow-Leningrad. 400 pp. (In Russian)

Right and copyright:

All rights reserved.
Copyright 2004 ©O.E. Kravchenko & I.A. Budrevskaya (vector map, description).