BRYOLOGICAL RATIONALE FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ORLOV-PONOYSKY NATURE SANCTUARY (KOLA PENINSULA)

The proposal to establish a new regional Orlov-Ponoysky Integrated Nature Sanctuary (zakaznik) is substantiated. This is a result of our bryological surveys in the easternmost part of the Kola Peninsula coast (Murmansk Region) - around the lower reaches of the Ponoy River, Rusinga River and Orlov Ca...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Main Authors: Olga Belkina, Evgeny Borovichev, Alexey Likhachev
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2018
Subjects:
mosses
liverworts
rare species
red data book
nature sanctuary
murmansk region
ponoy river lower reaches
Science
Q
Kola Peninsula
Murmansk
Laxa
Ponoy
Rusinga
kola peninsula
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17076/bg690
https://doaj.org/article/20120c9f476c4ec1806a956dbca4c3ec
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Summary:The proposal to establish a new regional Orlov-Ponoysky Integrated Nature Sanctuary (zakaznik) is substantiated. This is a result of our bryological surveys in the easternmost part of the Kola Peninsula coast (Murmansk Region) - around the lower reaches of the Ponoy River, Rusinga River and Orlov Cape, where a high richness of local bryoflora, a large number of rare and threatened bryophytes were revealed. In total, 266 mosses and 115 liverworts have been recorded from this territory. Of these, twenty species are listed in the Red Data Book of the Murmansk Region (2014) and one species is included in the Red Data Book of Russia (2008). Nine red-listed species (Arnellia fennica (Gottsche) Lindb., Calycularia laxa Lindb. et Arnell, Encalypta procera Bruch, Mesoptychia badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) L. Söderstr. et Váňa, Metzgeria furcata (L.) Dumort., Peltolepis quadrata (Saut.) Müll. Frib., Sauteria alpina (Nees) Nees, Scapania aequiloba (Schwägr.) Dumort, Tortula cernua (Huebener) Lindb.) were registered in the area for the first time; and new localities of two mosses (Fissidens bryoides Hedw., Hennediella heimii (Hedw.) R. H. Zander) were found. Three sites with a concentration of rare, mostly calcephilic, species were identified. Borders of the proposed nature sanctuary are outlined.

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