THE “LEADING FAMILIES SPECTRUM”: JUST AN ACCOUNTING ANALYSIS OR A USEFUL TOOL FOR RESEARCHERS?
Journal: Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii
Year: 2024

The article discusses the insufficiency of the “leading families of fl ora” (“spectrum of leading families of flora”) analysis – a simple list of families ranked by species richness. The authors call such a pseudo-analysis “accounting-bureaucratic”, since these fi gures themselves do not carry any biological meaning. The limitations imposed on the possibility of comparing fi gures by different approaches of the authors to the fl ora’s volume are considered. It is indicated that A.P. Khokhryakov’