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Assessment of Plant Status by the Stability of Development in Natural and Anthropogenic Conditions (Fluctuating Asymmetry of Leaf Features of the Silver Birch, Betula pendula Roth)

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The stability of development (in terms of the fluctuating asymmetry of leaf measurements) was studied in populations of the silver birch Betula pendula from different parts of the range under varying degrees of anthropogenic impact (under the influence of industrial facilities in the territory of Khakassia and the Belgorod region and in the urbanized environment in Yoshkar-Ola, Yakutsk, and Moscow). The data obtained show an increase in the degree of disturbance of the developmental stability as adverse effects increase, from a conditionally normal state to a critical one. In habitats with a similar degree of deviation of conditions, a similar reaction of plants is observed, despite the considerable spatial remoteness and various kinds of impact.

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This work was carried out as part of a State Assignment of Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334, Moscow, Russia

    V. M. Zakharov, N. A. Sharova & I. E. Trofimov

  2. Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 677980, Yakutsk, Russia

    E. G. Shadrina

  3. Mari State University, 424000, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

    N. V. Turmukhametova

  4. Gubkinskii Branch, Shukhov Belgorod State Technological University, 309186, Gubkin, Belgorod region, Russia

    E. N. Ivantsova

  5. Federal State Budgetary Institution, Sayano-Shushenskii State Natural Biosphere Reserve, 662713, pos. Shushenskoye, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    E. A. Shikalova

  6. Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education, Ammosov Northeastern Federal University, 677000, Yakutsk, Russia

    V. Yu. Soldatova

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Zakharov, V.M., Shadrina, E.G., Turmukhametova, N.V. et al. Assessment of Plant Status by the Stability of Development in Natural and Anthropogenic Conditions (Fluctuating Asymmetry of Leaf Features of the Silver Birch, Betula pendula Roth). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 47, 186–190 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359020020119

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