Xue Jianhua, Shcherbakov Andrey V, Kipriyanova Laura M, Zhu Li, Ma Keping
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China.
Plants (Basel). 2023 Jul 27;12(15):2792. doi: 10.3390/plants12152792.
In order to effectively protect rare and endangered plants, 27 provincial-level administrative regions in North Asia (the Asian part of Russia) have compiled and published local Red Data Books. In this study, the names (with synonyms) of vascular plants in the 27 provincial Red Books were digitalized and merged into a database of rare and endangered vascular plants in North Asia. The purpose is to reflect the species composition, geographic distribution pattern, and protection level of these plants and their inclusion in the national Russian Red Data Book and the IUCN Red List, and provide a reference for formulating conservation strategies. The dataset has a total of 2079 species, 160 subspecies, and 53 varieties belonging to 667 genera and 143 families. It contains data on 2292 taxa, including family name, genus name, species name and synonyms, protection level, and other information. We also analyzed the main influencing factors, existing problems of rare and endangered vascular plant species, and suggestions for addressing them. We conclude that, to date, the IUCN criteria have not been applied consistently in all regions, leading to an excessive number of species being recorded in the Red Data Books of Asian Russia; specifically, one-third of all floral species are in the regional Red Data Books.
为有效保护珍稀濒危植物，北亚（俄罗斯亚洲部分）的27个省级行政区已编纂并出版了地方植物红皮书。在本研究中，将27本省级红皮书中维管植物的名称（包括同义词）数字化，并合并成一个北亚珍稀濒危维管植物数据库。目的是反映这些植物的物种组成、地理分布格局、保护级别以及它们被列入俄罗斯国家红皮书和世界自然保护联盟（IUCN）红色名录的情况，并为制定保护策略提供参考。该数据集共有2079种、160个亚种和53个变种，隶属于143科667属。它包含了2292个分类单元的数据，包括科名、属名、种名及同义词、保护级别等信息。我们还分析了珍稀濒危维管植物物种的主要影响因素、现存问题及解决建议。我们得出结论，迄今为止，IUCN标准在所有地区并未得到一致应用，导致俄罗斯亚洲部分的红皮书中记录的物种数量过多；具体而言，所有植物物种中有三分之一被列入地区红皮书。
