Invasive and potentially invasive plant species in State Nature Biosphere Reserves of the Altai Republic (Russia)

Abstract

In the Altaiskiy and Katunskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserves we registered 44 alien plant species, which were considered in Siberia as invasive and potentially invasive. Among them, there were 30 xenophytes and 14 ergasiophytes species. Rumex acetosella L., Impatiens glandulifera Royle, Galinsoga ciliata (Rafin.) Blake, and Strophiostoma sparsiflorum (Mikan ex Pohl) Turcz. are considered invasive in the Altaiskiy Reserve because they actively spread there in natural and seminatural plant communities and habitats. Most of the species had appeared in the territories of the reserves before their establishment as a result of agricultural activity or appeared after their establishment because of activity of the reserves themselves. Despite of a big amount of tourists in the reserves, the invasive and potentially invasive plants are absent on the ecological paths at present.

Biological flora of Central Europe: Impatiens glandulifera Royle

“…The species has recently also spread in the Balkans and the Caucasus (Fayvush and Tamanyan, 2011;GBIF Secretariat, 2019;Komzha and Popov, 1990;Pacanoski and Saliji, 2014), and is naturalized in Russia (European part, far East and, recently, the Altai Republic), China (Hunan), Japan, New Zealand, Argentina and both western and eastern Canada and USA (Fig. 3A) (Artemov and Zykova, 2019;CABI, 2020;Čuda et al, 2020;EPPO, 2020;GBIF Secretariat, 2019;Vinogradova et al, 2020). In the USA, the species was first reported from Norwich (Connecticut) in 1883 and in Canada from Ottawa in 1901, with initial introductions possibly through ship's ballast from Europe (Clements et al, 2008;Mills et al, 1993;Tabak and Von Wettberg, 2008).…”