Abstract
Rhaponticun carthamoides (Willd.) Iljin is a rare medicinal plant listed in the Red List of the Russian Federation. Spatial patterns of its reserves were studied for the monitoring and protection of wild populations at the Kuznetsk Alatau. The dependence of population abundance on environmental factors was revealed by geobotanical profiles. We derived the equation of nonlinear regression for rapid method of determining the weight of subsurface parts by counting the number of shoots. To assess rapidly and monitor the natural reserves we developed a mathematical model describing the abundance of R. carthamoides and its habitat altitude.
Highlights
The exploitation of medicinal plant populations in wild without observing the mode of sustainable use is one of the threats to biodiversity (Schippmann, 1997, Schippmann et al 2002)
It is obvious that as long as there is no way a directive to enforce the mode of sustainable use at the state level, the R. carthamoides must not be subjected to industrial harvesting of raw materials because it leads to destruction of strategically important natural resource
The aim of our study is to identify the best habitat of R. carthamoides in terms of environmental factors where it forms abundant populations
Summary
The exploitation of medicinal plant populations in wild without observing the mode of sustainable use is one of the threats to biodiversity (Schippmann, 1997, Schippmann et al 2002). The resources of this species are quite large (Nekratova & Shurupova, 2014, 2016), massive poaching harvestings and depletion of wild populations gave rise to the inclusion of R. carthamoides in the Red List of the Russian Federation (Red Book..., 2008) and regional Red Lists (Red Book..., 2002, 2007, 2012). This species has been assigned the conservation category which has no analogues in the international conservation practice (IUCN, 2012) - "a rare species with resource value". This model is created for accurate determination of the potential reserves of raw materials by express method (without digging)
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