South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: Changes in climate, land-use and pollution are having disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity of arctic and mountain ecosystems. While these impacts are well-documented for many areas of the Arctic and alpine regions, some isolated and inaccessible mountain areas are poorly studied. Furthermore, even in well-studied regions, assessments of biodiversity and species responses to environmental change are biased towards vascular plants and cryptogams, particularly bryophytes are far less represented. This paper aims to document the environments of the remote and inaccessible Altai-Sayan mountain mires and particularly their bryofloras where threatened species exist and species new to the regional flora are still being found. As these mountain mires are relatively inaccessible,

SUBMITTER: Volkova II 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8269984 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature