Herbarium collection of the Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin of RAS (PVB): results of the 2024 field season

The results of replenishment of the Herbarium collection of the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PVB) for the field season of 2024 are summarized. The total number of herbarium sheets was 895. The staff of the IEVRB RAS ecosystem research laboratory studied the vegetation cover of five regions: Samara, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Saratov and Astrakhan. Specific points of botanical research, the number of herbarium collections and finds of individual rare species are indicated. The most interesting surveyed objects, including steppe plant communities, were the Varvarovskaya steppe (Ulyanovsk region), Ardym and Yelan steppes (Penza region).