BOTANICAL RESULTS OF THE 6 TH  WEST HIMALAYAN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOGEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION TO THE INDUS AND GANGES INTERFLUVE

S. Yu. Zolkin; Золкин С. Ю.; T. V. Krestovskaya; Крестовская Т. В.; B. K. Gannibal; Ганнибал Б. К.; G. A. Novitskaya; Новицкая Г. А.

doi:10.31857/S0006813623110091

BOTANICAL RESULTS OF THE 6^TH WEST HIMALAYAN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOGEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION TO THE INDUS AND GANGES INTERFLUVE

Authors: Zolkin S.Y.¹, Krestovskaya T.V.², Gannibal B.K.³, Novitskaya G.A.⁴
Affiliations:
1. N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of RAS
2. Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS
3. Saint Petersburg State University
4. Russian Association of Researchers of the Himalaya and Tibet, Independent Scientist
Issue: Vol 108, No 11 (2023)
Pages: 1023-1034
Section: ХРОНИКА
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0006-8136/article/view/233542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0006813623110091
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/CDYGIS
ID: 233542

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The article presents some scientific results of the 6th Western Himalayan Interdisciplinary Biogeographical Expedition of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists. The flora and vegetation types of the central part, north-east, east and south-east of Himachal Pradesh state (India) were studied. The expedition participants studied plants at altitudes from 200 to 4600 meters. The difficult terrain, the variety of combinations of rocks, soil types, as well as abrupt changes in meso- and microclimatic conditions significantly influenced the nature of vegetation and the composition of flora, the definition of phytocenotic boundaries, the search for rare plants and the clarification of their ecology. Attention was also paid to cultivated component in plant communities. The article, based on the professional interests and individual view of each of the authors, briefly represents the diversity of vegetation along a route of almost 2000 km, passing through all the vertical zonality of the Western Himalayan biogeographical province.

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vegetation, flora, Western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, India

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