Ekaterina Kuzmina

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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D.

Position: Senior Researcher

E-mail: kuzminaeju@binran.ru

Research interests:

Flora, taxonomy, ecology and geography of mosses of the North of Russia, the Far East and Western Siberia.
Special attention is given to the group of mosses of the family Sphagnaceae: flora, taxonomy, ecology, geography, biology.

Keywords: Mosses, Bryophytes, Bryoflora, Spagnaceae, Kamchatka Territory, Koryakiya, Koryak Upland, Far East

Education and work experience:

1987 — Leningrad State University, Biological Faculty, Department of geobotany. Thesis: «The participation of mosses in a typical plant communities of the surrounding area Pekulneyskoe Lake (Koryak Upland)».
1987–1992 — postgraduate student of Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.
2003 — PhD thesis: «Mosses of the Koryak Upland», Komarov Botanical Institute RAS (supervisor B. A. Yurtsev).

1992–2008 — Research Assistant at the laboratory Lichenology and bryology, Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.
2008–2016 — Research Scientist of the laboratory Lichenology and bryology, Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.
2017 — until now — Senior Researcher of the laboratory Lichenology and bryology, Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Member of research team:

2019–2021. RFBR №19-05-00805 -а «The patterns of vegetation cover differentiation of Beringian forest-tundra zone and the main botanical-geographical boundaries of North-Eastern Asia».
2018–2021. RFBR №18-05-60093 Arctic «Spatial and temporal changes in lichhenoflora and bryoflora of the Russian Arctic and adjacent territories and their relationship with global natural processes and anthropogenic environmental transformation».
2016–2018. RFBR №16-05-00736 А «The vegetation cover of the Northern Koryakia and its position in the scheme of botanical-geographical subdivision of the North-Western Asia».
2013–2015. RFBR №13-05-00239 А «The patterns of the structure and formation of bryological and lichenological communities in the zones of active volcanic action».
2011–2013. RFBR №11-04-00027-а «The patterns of the vegetation cover differentiation and dynamics in the volcanic regions by the example of Kamchatka».
2008–2010. RFBR №08-04-01294-а «The patterns of the volcanogenic transformation and dynamics of the vegetation cover by the example of Kamchatka».
2005–2007. RFBR №05-04-48705-а «Flora of pleurocarpous mosses of North Asia».
2003–2005. RFBR №03-04-49593-а «The bryoflora of the Kamchatka Peninsula»
1998–2000. RFBR №98-04-49827-а «The study of the bryophyte flora of the North of Western Siberia».
1998–2000. RFBR №98-04-49614-а «Identifying the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic influence on the composition and structure of partial floras of the Western Siberian Arctic».
1997–1999. RFBR №97-04-48919-а «An Experimental study of the structure, the functioning and resilience of ecosystems of the Chukotka tundra in the context of global climate change».
1995–1997. RFBR №95-04-11949-а «Development of bryological herbarium of the Botanical Institute of RAS and preparation on its basis of the publication «Bryophyte flora of Russia»».
1994. RFBR №94-04-13786-а «Preservation and development of the herbarium of bryophytes as the basis of taxonomic and floristic studies».

Other projects:

State contract with the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation №16.518.11.7071 of 12 May 2011 «The study of the diversity of recent and fossil plants and fungi on the basis of the collection of the Botanical Institute as an object of scientific infrastructure for collective use». Subject: development of research methodology and directions of development of the collections of the Botanical Institute RAS, Potemkin A.D.
Programs of Basic Research of Presidium RAS «Wildlife: current status and problems of development», Afonina O.M.
In cooperation with «Aconitum Ltd». and the St. Petersburg Academy of Forestry and Technologies for the organization of specially protected natural areas (the state contract with the Government of St. Petersburg) to study the vegetation of specially protected natural territories of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region.

Conferences and workshops:

Organizing committee:

International Bryological Conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of A.L. Abramova. Russia, St. Petersburg, October 12–16, 2015. Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
International conference dedicated to the 110th anniversary since the birth of Z.N. Smirnova and K.I. Ladyzhenskaya «Bryology: traditions and modernity», St. Petersburg , October 11–15, 2010. Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
International Bryological Meeting «Actual problems of Bryology», dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of A.L. Abramova. Russia, St. Petersburg, November 22–25, 2005. Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
Conference «Bryology problems at the turn of centuries». Russia, St. Petersburg, November 4–6, 2002. Member of the Organizing Committee.
Conference «Mycology and cryptogamous botany in Russia: Traditions and Modernity», Russia, St. Petersburg, April 24–28, 2000. Member of the Organizing Committee.

Attendee:

ХХII international scientific conference Conservation of biodiversity of Kamchatka and coastal waters, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the famous Kamchatka ichthyologist, one of the organizers of regular reserches of biology and state of stock abundances of sea commercial fishes near coasts of Kamchatka, Ph.D. I.A. Polutov’s birthday. Russia, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, November, 17–18, 2021. Oral report.
XI Galkinskie Chtenia »Online Conference. Russia, St. Petersburg, April 21, 2021. Abstracts.
International scientific conference dedicated to the 275th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Kamchatka expedition (1732–1733), «Conservation of biodiversity of Kamchatka and adjacent seas».
XXXIX International conference in St. Petersburg branch of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology «Challenges unused space of the Russian Empire: expediting activity of the Academy of Sciences of XVIII-XIX centuries (to the 275th anniversary of the beginning of the second Kamchatka expedition)».
All-Russian conference «Fundamental and Applied Botany at the beginning of the XXI century».
IX International Conference «Biodiversity of Kamchatka and adjacent seas».
I, II, III International Conference «Ecology and diversity of forest ecosystems in the Asiatic part of Russia», Czech Republic.
All-Russian conference «The problem and strategy of biodiversity conservation of the flora of North Asia».
All-Russian conference with international participation to the memory of outstanding scientist Leonid Vladimirovich Bardonov «Problems of studying and preservation of the flora of Eurasia».
International conference dedicated to the 110th anniversary since the birth of Z.N. Smirnova and K.I. the Ladyzhenskaya «Bryology: traditions and modernity».
COST ACTION FA1103: endophytes in biotechnology and agriculture. Workshop, France.
International conference devoted to 100 year anniversary of R.N. Schljakov.
22 nd EVS International Workshop, Italy.
V All-Russian Geobotanical School-Conference with International Participation. St. Petersburg.
International Bryological Conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of A.L. Abramova. St. Petersburg.
First European Symposium: Research, conservation and management of biodiversity in the European seashores (RCMBES). Primorsko, Bulgaria, 8–12 May. 2017.
School-conference «Сryptogamous biota of North Asia», Irkutsk, Ridge Hamar-Daban, September 4–9, 2018.
International Scientific Conference «Complex Studies of the Natural Environment of the Arctic and Antarctic». St. Petersburg, March 2–4, 2020.

Professional memberships:

Editorial activity:

Executive Secretary of the Editorial Board «Novosti sistematiki nizshich rastenii», until 2020.
Member of the Commission on the preparation of historical essays «Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences: Three Centuries History» to the 300th anniversary of the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications:

Monographs:

Vyakina M.P., Himelbrandt D.E., ... Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. Rastitel'nyi pokrov vulkanicheskikh plato Tsentral'noi Kamchatki (Klyuchevskaya gruppa vulkanov) [Vegetation Cover of Volcanic Plateaus of Central Kamchatka (the Kluchevskaya Volcanoes Group)]. 2014. 460 p. [In Russian]

Shcherbakov A.V., Kuzmina E.Yu., Lapshina E.D., Bragina A., Berg C., Berg G., Shcherbakova E.N., Chebotar V. K., Tikhonovich I. A. Endophytic Bacteria Associated with Sphagnum Mosses: Ecological Diversity and Application for Agricultural Microbiology / In book: Moss: Classification, Development and Growth and Functional Role in Ecosystems. N.Y.: Nova Publishers. 2014. 245 p.

Papers:

Liksakova N.S., Glazkova E.A., Kuzmina E.Yu., Khokhlov S.F. New data on vegetation and soils of Urup (Kuril Islands). Botanicheskiy zhurnal. 2023. 108(3): 228–247.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Skvortsov K.I., Neshataeva V.Yu. New moss records from Kamchatka Territory. 16. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 20. Arctoa. 2023. 32(1): 87.

Ellis L. T., Álvaro Alba W. R., … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New national and regional bryophyte records, 73. Journal of Bryology. 2023. 45(2): 172–179.

Ignatova E.A., Koroteevа T.I. … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. Addition to the moss flora of the Southern Kurile Islands (Russian Far East). Botanicheskiy zhurnal. 2023. 108(5): 473–483.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Glazkova E.A. New moss records from Sakhalin Province. 16. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 21. Arctoa. 2023. 32(2): 283.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Skvortsov K.I., Neshataeva V.Yu., Neshatayev V.Yu. New moss records from Koryak District. 1. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 21. Arctoa. 2023. 32(2): 281–282.

Neshataeva V.Yu., Neshataev V.Yu., Skvortsov K.I., Kuzmina E.Yu., Korablev A.P. Classification of dwarf pine communities in the North of the Koryak District (Kamchatsky Region). Botanicheskiy zhurnal. 2023. 108(11): 3–22.

Ellis L.T., Afonina O.M., … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New national and regional bryophyte records, 70. Journal of Bryology. 2022. 44(2).

Kotkova V.M., Afonina O.M., … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New cryptogamic records. 11. Novosti sistematiku nizshikh rastenii. 2022. 56(2): 477–517.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Skvortsov K.I., Neshataeva V.Yu. New moss records from Kamchatka Territory. 15. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 18. Arctoa. 2022. 31(1): 70.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Liksakova N.S. New moss records from Sakhalin Province. 11. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 18. Arctoa. 2022. 31(1): 70–72.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Glazkova E.A. New moss records from Sakhalin Province. 13. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 19. Arctoa. 2022. 31(2): 240.

Lapshina E.D., Konstantinova N.А., Kuzmina E.Yu., Filippov I.V. New bryophyte records from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. 1. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 19. Arctoa. 2022. 31(2): 235–238.

Ellis L. T., Alataş M. … Kuzmina E.Yu., et al. New national and regional bryophyte records, 66. Journal of Bryology. 2021. 43(2): 193–212.

Neshataeva V.Yu., Kuzmina E.Yu., Kirichenko V.E., Neshataev V.Yu., Katyutin P.N. Stone-birch forests on the Govena Peninsula and Olyutorsky Gulf Coast (Koryaksky District, Kamchatka Krai). Proceedings of KarRC RAS. Series biogeography. 2021. 1: 5–27.

Liksakova N.S., Glazkova E.A., Kuzmina E.Yu. To the vegetation of Urup Island (the Kuriles). Botanicheskii zhurnal. 2021. 106(8): 3–27.

Czernyadjeva I.V., Davydov E.A., … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New cryptogamic records. 7. Novosti sistematiku nizshikh rastenii. 2021. 55(1): 249–277.

Ellis L.T., Alataş M., … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New national and regional bryophyte records, 67. Journal of Bryology. 2021. 43(3): 301–311.

Kuzmina E.Yu. Tyurin V.N., Kukurichkin G.M. New moss records from Western Siberia. 6. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 16. Arctoa. 2021. 30(1): 105.

Kotkova V.M., Afonina O.M., Dejidmaa T., … Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New cryptogamic records. 9. Novosti sistematiku nizshikh rastenii. 2021. 55(2): 495–516.

Potemkin A., Bakalin V., Vilnet A., Klimova K., Kuzmina E. A survey of the section Scapania of the genus Scapania (Scapaniaceae) with description of new species Scapania pseudouliginosa and resurrection of S. gigantea. The Bryologist. 2021. 124(4): 569–589.

Afonina O.M., Kuzmina E.Yu. New moss records from Chukotka Autonomous District. 8. In: Sofronova E.V. (ed.). New bryophyte records. 17. Arctoa. 2021. 30(2): 473.

Telyatnikov M.Yu., Khitun O.V., Czernyadjeva I.V., Kuzmina E.Yu., Ermokhina K.A. A contribution to the syntaxonomic diversity of the Tazovsky Peninsula, Arctic Russia. Botanica Pacifica. 2021. 10(1): 37–51.

Beldiman L.N., Urbanavichene I.N., Fedosov V.E., Kuzmina E.Yu. Mosses and lichens of Shokalsky Island (Kara Sea, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area). [Mkhi i lishayniki o-va Shokalskogo (Karskoye more. Yamalo-nenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2020. 54 (2): 497–513. [In Russian

Ellis L.T., Alikhadzhiev M.Kh., ... Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. New national and regional bryophyte records, 64. Journal of Bryology. 2020. 42(4): 393–412.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Potemkin A.D., Nashataeva V.Yu. Bryophytes (Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta) of thermal habitats of the Lagoon Tintikun, Northern Koryakia, Kamchatka Territory. [Mkhi i lishayniki o-va Shokalskogo (Karskoye more. Yamalo-nenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2020. 54(1): 189–209. [In Russian]

Ellis L.T., Afonina O.M., ... Kuzmina E. Yu., et al. New national and regional bryophyte records, 61. Journal of Bryology. 2019. 41(4): 364–384.

Mosseev D.S., Sergienko L.A., Kuzmina E.Yu., Sonina A.V., Zorina A.A. Vegetation cover of the sea terraces of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago [Rastitelnyy pokrov morskikh terras Arkhipelaga Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa ]. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2019. 104(9): 1–31. [In Russian]

Smagin V.A., Stepochkina O.E., Doronina A.Ju., Doroshina G.Ya., Kuzmina E.Yu., Reznikov A.I. About the mire Yamnitskaya Chist and its nearest vicinities (Leningrad Region, Boksitogorsk District). [O bolote Yamnitskaya Chist i ego blizhayshikh okrestnostyakh (Leningradskaya Oblast. Boksitogorskiy Rayon)]. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2018. 103(8): 980–991. [In Russian]

Lapshina E.D., Kuzmina E.Yu., Filippov I.V., Kukurichkin G.M. New data on distribution and ecology of rare in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District (Western Siberia) moss species (Bryophyta) [Novyye dannyye o rasprostranenii i ekologii redkikh v Khanty-Mansiyskom avtonomnom okruge (Zapadnaya Sibir’) vidov mkhov (Bryophyta)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2018. 52(2): 469–482. [In Russian]

Mosseev D.S., Sergienko L.A., Kuzmina E.Yu. New moss species (Bryophyta) for the Franz Josef Land (Russian Arctic) [Novyye vidy mkhov (Bryophyta) dlya Zemli Frantsa-Iosifa (Rossiyskaya Arktika)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2018. 52(1): 195–203. [In Russian]

Kuzmina E.Yu. The diversity of mosses of the coastal areas of the Koryak Upland (Far East, Russia). Acta Zool. Bulg. Supplementum. 2018. 11: 145–148.

Ignatova E.A., Kuzmina E.Yu. The genus Schistidium (Grimmiaceae) on the Koryak Upland (Far East) [Rod Schistidium (Grimmiaceae) na Koryakskom nagorye (Dalniy Vostok)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2017. 51: 251–262. [In Russian]

Doroshina G.Ya., Kuzmina E.Yu., Nikolaev I.A. Sphagnum mosses (Sphagnaceae, Bryophyta) of South Ossetia (Caucasus) [Sfagnovyye mkhi (Bryophyta. Sphagnaceae) Yuzhnoy Osetii (Kavkaz)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2017. 51: 232–241. [In Russian]

KuzminaE.Yu., Koroteeva T.I. Diversity of species of the famaly Sphagnaceae on the thermal habitats of the South Kuril Islands (Sakhalin Region) [Raznoobraziye vidov sem. Sphagnaceae na termalnykh mestoobitaniyakh Yuzhnykh Kuril (Sakhalinskaya oblast)]. Bulletin of Botanical Garden Institute of FEB RAS [Electronic resource]. 2016. 15: 45–47 [In Russian]

Shcherbakov A.V., Kuzmina E.Yu., Lapshina E.D., Shcherbakova E.N., Gonchar L.N., Chebotar V.K. Taxanomic diversity of bacterial populations inhabiting gametophytes of Sphagnum mosses from different geographic regions of Russia. Agranomy Research. 2015. 13(1): 192–201.

Fedosov V.E., Kuzmina E. Yu., Nashataeva V.Yu. Bryoflora of Dolina Geyzerov [Brioflora Doliny geyzerov]. Trudy Kronotskogo gosudarstvennogo prirodnogo biosfernogo zapovednika. 2015. 4: 52–178.

Nashataeva V.Yu., Nashatayev V.Yu., Korablev A.P., Kuzmina E.Yu. Vegetation of coastal salt marshes of the gulf of Korf (Olutorsky District, Kamchatsky krai [Rastitelnost primorskikh marshey poberezhia zaliva Korfa (Olyutorskiy rayon Kamchatskogo kraya)]. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2014. 99(8): 868–894. [In Russian]

Shcherbakov A.V., Bragina A.V., Kuzmina E.Yu. et al. Endophyte bacteria sphagnum moss as promising objects of agricultural microbiology [Endofitnyye bakterii sfagnovykh mkhov kak perspektivnyye obyekty selskokhozyaystvennoy mikrobiologii]. Mikrobiologia. 2013. 82(3): 312–322. [In Russian]

Kuzmina E.Yu., Kukurichkin G M.To the moss flora of «Sibirskie Uvaly» nature park (West Siberia) [K brioflore prirodnogo parka «Sibirskiye Uvaly» (Zapadnaya Sibir. Nizhnevartovskiy r-n)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2012. 46: 245–255. [In Russian]

Fedosov V.E., Kuzmina E.Yu. History and preliminary results of studying Broflor Kronotsky Reserve [Istoriya i predvaritelnyye rezultaty izucheniya brioflory Kronotskogo zapovednika]. Trudy Kronotskogo gosudarstvennogo prirodnogo biosfernogo zapovednika. 2012. 2: 51–65. [In Russian]

Kuzmina E.Yu., Nashatayev V.Yu., Nashataeva V.Yu., Korablev A.P. To bryoflora of the southwest extremity of Koryak Upland (Kamchatka Territory, Penzhinsky District) [K brioflore yugo-zapadnoy okonechnosti Koryakskogo nagoria (Kamchatskiy kray. Penzhinskiy r-n)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2012. 46: 256–268. [In Russian]

Kuzmina E.Yu. Latitudinal zonation of arctic moss flora of the Koryakskoye Upland [Arkticheskaya shirotnaya zonalnaya fraktsiya vo flore mkhov Koryakskogo nagoria]. Chornomorski Botanical Journal. 2012. 8(2): 183–188. [In Russian]

Kuzmina E.Yu. Nashatayeva V.Yu. To the bryophyte flora of Abies gracilis fir grove (Kronotsky Reserve, Kamchatka) [K brioflore pikhtarnikov iz Abies gracilis (Kronotskiy zapovednik. Kamchatka)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2011. 45: 318–328.

Kuzmina E.Yu., Czernyadjeva I.V. The mosses of the Sabun River basin (middle Ob’, Western Siberia) [Listostebelnyye mkhi basseyna r. Sabun (sredneye techeniye r. Ob. Zapadnaya Sibir)]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2005. 38: 340–356.

Konstantinova N.A., Kuzmina E.Yu. On the hepatic flora of Koryakiya (North East of Russia) [K flore pechenochnykh mkhov Koryakii (Severo-Vostok Rossii)]. Arctoa. 2001. 10: 103–114.

Kuzmina E. Yu. Moss flora of Northeast Koryak Upland [Flora listostebelnykh mkhov severo-vostoka Koryakskogo nagoria]. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 1995. 30: 121–128.