Nadezhda Matveyeva

Author Identifiers: Russian Science Citation Index

Academic degree, academic title: Dr.Sc.

Position: Leading Researcher

E-mail: nadmat@binran.ru

Research interests:

Arctic (Taymyr, Severnaya Zemlya, European North, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, North-East Land), polar deserts, tundra, biodiversity, flora, vegetation, classification, structure and dynamics of plant communities, biogeography, zonation

Education and work experience:

1957 — entered the Leningrad State Univesity, Biology Department, from which graduated with honors in geobotany in 1962
1962 — entered the Komarov Botanical Institute (BIN) to the post of Jr. laboratory assistant
1966 — enrolled in graduate school BIN (B. A. Tikhomirov, head), from which graduated in 1969
1969 — enlisted in BIN to the post Jr. researcher in the Laboratory of far North
1970 — PhD thesis "Features of the vegetation structure of the main types of tundra in the middle reaches of the river Pyasina (Western taymyr)"
1995 — doctoral thesis "Zonal environment factors and plant cover of the tundra zone (with Taymyr as an example)"

Grants and research projects:

Grants RFBR

Initiative:

1993–1995. 93-04-06321-а. Adaptive strategy in the extreme environments; participant
1996–1998. 96-04-51080-а. Climatic gradients and species diversity of communities; participant
1997–1999. 97-04-48952-а. Composition and structure of the polar desert communities; head
1999–2001. 99-04-48888-а Latitudinal gradients of climate heat and taxonomical structure of the Arctic biota; participant
2000–2002. 00-04-49439-а. Botanical criteria of the tundra and polar desert zones subdivision; head
2002–2004. 02-04-48663-а Taxonomical diversity and community organization in the Arctic; participant
2003–2005. 03-04-49400-а. Regional features of flora and vegetation of polar deserts and their altitudinal analogues; head
2006–2008. 06-04-49295-а. Syntaxonomical diversities within the Arctic and its dependence on the ecological and geographical factors; head
2010–2012. 10-04-01114-а. Species and community chorology analysis both for the purposes of the latitudinal zonal typology and an assessment of climatogenic dynamics of the Arctic plant cover; head
2013–2015. 13-04-01385. Geobotanical regionalization of East-European tundra as a basis for evaluation and maintaining their coenoticdiversity; participant

Expeditions:

1997. 97-04-63024-к. (Bolshevik Isl.); participant
1998. 98-04-63055-к. (о-в Большевик); participant
1999. 99-04-63039-к (Canadian arctic archipelago); participant
2000. 00-04-63045-к. (Bolshevik Isl.); participant
2001. 01-04-63038-к (Nenetz autonomic district); participant
2002. 02-04-63050-к. (the lower reaches of the Kolyma river); participant
2010. 10-04-10121-к (Taymyr); participant
2012.10064-к. (Taymyr); head

Publishing:

1997. 97-04-62055-д. The publication of the monograph "Zonation in plant cover of the Arctic"; head
2015. 15-04-07031. The publication of the collective monograph "Plants and fungi of the polar deserts in the northern hemisphere"; head
The publication of the series "Vegetation of Russia" No 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16; participant

Programms of the Presidium of RAS

Biodiversity and The living nature

2006–2008. Syntaxonomy and latidudinal-zonal variation of the structure of the Arctic plant communities; head
2009–2011. The chorology of species and communities for the diagnostic of the the units of the Arctic zonal and floristic and geobotanical subdivision; head
2012–2016. The diversity and dynamics of the Arctic plant cover and the mechanisms for its sustainability; head
2003–2005. Study of the trends in parameters of diversity of the Arctic ecosystems, mechanisms of influence of climatic and anthropogenic factors on its dynamics; responsible performer on BIN

Projects under the leadership by academician Yu. I. Chernov

2004–2009. Evolution of the holocene and modern communities and ecosystems; responsible performer on BIN
2010–2013. Communities in extreme environments: models of synecological structures of ancient land; responsible performer on BIN

Scientific school by academician Yu. I. Chernov

2000–2013. Responsible performer on BIN

Conferences and workshops:

In Russian Federation: yearly participation in 1–2 conferences on northern topics and problems of classification of vegetation.
International meetings beginning since 1986: Germany (1986, 2008), Denmark (1993, 1995), Iceland (2004), Canada (1995), The Netherlands (1987), Norway (1993, 1995, 2004), Poland (2013), USA (1992, 1996, 1997), Finland (1990, 1993), Sweden (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004), Japan (1990).

Professional memberships:

Russian Botanical Society

Expeditions:

Russia

Komi: 1964 — field station “Sivaya Maska” (B. N. Norin, head)
Taymyr (in total 25): 1965–1967, 1969–1970, 2010 — Tareya; 1972–1973 — Maria Pronchishtseva bay; 1974 — Cape Chelyuskin; 1975–1977 — Kresty; 1978–1979, 2012 — Dickson; 1980 — Lenivaya river, Sibiryakov Isl., Dickson; 1981 — the rivers Osipovka, Efremov Kamen, Uboinaya; 1982 — the rivers Syradasai, Ragozinka; 1983 — Ragozinka river;1985 — Ragozinka river, Kresty;1986 — Ragozinka river, Koso-Turku lake; 1988 — Uboinaya river; 1990 — the rivers Ragozinka, Efremova, Uboinaya; 1993 — Taymyr lake; 1996 — Putorana plateau
Northern Zemlya: 1997–1998, 2000 — Bolshevik Isl.
European North: 1964 — Sivaya Maska, 2001 — Kuznetskaya (Pechora sea), 2003–2004, 2006 — Dolgyi Isl. (Barents sea), 2008 — route Naryan-Mar Usinsk, 2014 — Pakhanchesskaya Bay (Barents sea)
Yakutia: 2002 — Kolyma river (Cherskyi Ambarchik)

Canada

Canadian arctic archipelago: 1989, 1991 — Devon Isl.; 1999 — CANTRAN-99 (Banks, Victory, Ellesmere, Amund Ringnes Islands), 2005 — Ellef Ringnes Isl.

Kazakhstan

Karaganda Region: 1961 — biocomplex expedition BIN in Kazakhstan, field station Zhan-Arka (university diploma practice)

Norway

Spitsbergrn: 2007 (West Spitsbergrn, North-East Land)

Editorial activity:

Editor in chief of the Journal "Vegetation of Russia"

Monographs:

Sekretareva N. A. 1999. Vascular plants of the Russian Arctic and the adjacent territories
Sekretareva N. A. 2004. Vascular plants of the Russian Arctic and the adjacent territories
Afonina O. M. 2004. Moss flora of Chukotka
Red Data Book of Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 2006
Dedov A. A. 2006. Vegetation of Malozemelskaya and Timanskaya tundras
Sergienko V. G. 2013Concrete floras of the Kanin-Mezenski region
Plants and fungi of the polar deserts in the northern hemisphere. 2015

Scientific-organizational and teaching activities:

Member of doctor scientific council in BIN RAS
The head of the Phd thesises: Zanokha L. L. (1989), Chinenko S. V. (2005), Babina N. S. (2007); Yanchenko Z. A. (2007)
Opponent of the PhD and Dr. Sci. Thesises