The Strict Nature Reserve
«Kuznetskij Alatau» is situated in the mountains with the same name that are
the northern part of Altay-Sayany Mountain System of South Siberia. Its
territory includes 412900 hectars. Vegetation is presented by mountain forests
with dominance of Pinus sibirica, Picea abies and Abies sibirica,
subalpine meadows and alpine types. Hepatics have been studied by authors
during the relatively short field trip in the northern part of the reserve in
2000. An annotated list of hepatics counts 110 species including a number of
species rare in Siberia and the whole world. Six species (Asterella
gracilis, Cephalozia macounii, Eremonotus myriocarpus, Haplomitrium
hookeri, Moerckia hibernica, Nardia japonica) are found in South Siberia
for the first time. The distribution and ecology of hepatics in Nature Reserve
are discussed.