Bryological collection of Yugra State University

Bryological collection of Yugra State University stores about 6K specimens of mosses and liverworts collected mainly in the West Siberia.The purpose of the Bryological collection of YSU was to make a collection of mosses and liverworts, representing various biogeographical areas and the species diversity of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and other regions, which would be accessible by bryologists worldwide. The study of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in terms of bryology is still insufficient. The regional checklist of species is quite complete, but frequency data are scarce (including rare and endangered species) due to the small number of surveyed areas.The growth of the Bryological collection began when Elena D. Lapshina started working in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The first specimens were collected in 2003-2004 in the vicinity of Khanty-Mansiysk Town. In 2009, the Mukhrino Field Station of Yugra State University was established on the left bank of the Irtysh River, 25 km southwest of Khanty-Mansiysk. As a part of the inventory programme of this Station, about 600 samples of mosses and liverworts were collected, representing the typical bryoflora of the middle taiga of Western Siberia (Lapshina and Pisarenko 2013).A significant part of the collection of bryophytes (2141 samples) was made during a series of expeditions organised by the Museum of Nature and Man (Khanty-Mansiysk) at the eastern slope of the Subpolar Urals. In 2013, the region of Neroyka mountain – one of the highest peaks of the Ural Mountains, was inventoried (Konstantinova and Lapshina 2014, Lapshina et al. 2015, Lapshina et al. 2016). The upper reaches of the Puyva River were visited in the field season of 2015 (Konstantinova and Lapshina 2017, Skuchas and Lapshina 2018). In 2019, a large collection of bryophytes (683 specimens) was made in upper and middle reaches of the Khulga River (Lapshina et al. 2020). These collections from Khanty-Mansi region were supplemented in 2017 by about 500 specimens of mosses and liverworts from the eastern slope of the Polar Urals in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Yanganape Carbonate Mountain range. A small collection (168 specimens) was made in 2017 in a unique mire ecosystem within the territory of "Vogulka" protected area. Other well-sampled areas include the Natural Parks "Kondinskie Ozera" and "Numto". To date, specimens from about 20 key areas have been accessed in the collection.Filippova N, Ganasevich G, Filippov I, Meshcheryakova A, Lapshina E, Karpov D (2022) Yugra State University Biological Collection (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia): general and digitisation overview. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e77669. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e77669