Name: V.L.Komarov Botany institute
Acronym: BIN RAN
Email: binran@glas.apc.org
Phone: 812-234-10-90, 234-12-37
Telefax: 812-234-45-12
Address:
197376, Prof. Popov str., 2, St.-Petersburg, Russia
Contact person:
Kira
Leonidovna
Vinogradova
Role: Deputy Director
Phone: 812-234-84-51
Email: binran@glas.apc.org
Address:
197376, Prof. Popov str., 2, St.-Petersburg,
Russia
External Institutional Framework:
Russian Academy of Sciences
Institution type:
Governmental academic [29145]
Funding sources:
Core funding from the sources of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Extra financing - within the
framework of projects and grants of various
international and national programmes.
Description:
Major research activity :
- systematics,
- phylogenia,
- geography and phylogenia of plants and fungus;
- geobotany and fitocenology;
- plant resources;
- structural and functional botany;
- introduction of wild plants.
The institute consists of 15 divisions and 25 laboratories. Total number of personnel is about 620: 330 - scientific personnel (61 - doctors of sciences, 187 - Phds, 82 - researchers).
Arctic involvement:
Studies of the state of panarctic biota (Russian-
American project).
Development of a data base of rear and endangered
species of lichens and mosses of the Russian
Arctic.
Studies of the structure and characteristics of phyto-benthos and phyto-plankton of the Arctic seas
of Russia (international project "the World Ocean").
Assessment of anthropogenic impact on forest ecosystems of the Kola peninsula.
Protection of wetlands of the Northern part of
European Russia.
Studies of microflora of Russian Arctic.
Major information sources:
Specialized collections of fungus, leachens, mosses and algae of the North of Russia.
Data base on leachens and mosses. geobotanic maps.
Publications:
Materials in the form of flora reviews and
publications on specific species of plants are
being published in scientific journals: "Botanical Journal", Mikology and phytopatology",
"Bryologist", "Arctica" , annual publication "News
of systematics of elementary plants", ás well as in the series on "determination" of fungus.
Area:
Arctic [30798], Russian Federation [30441], Eastern Europe [30402]
Infoterra keywords:
Botany [28119], Flora [12738], Vegetation [12738], Protected flora [12770], Plant physiology [28119]
Other keywords:
Systematics, Phylogenia, Geobotany
Region:
St.Petersburg