The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea
The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island (White Sea Throat, Murmansk Region, Russia) has been studied and described in detail. This is a small island situated within the tundra zone, largely covered by a permafrost peatland with the presence of flarks, a palsa mire, and rock outcrops. Vascular p...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/77922 2023-05-15T15:23:56+02:00 The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea Kozhin, Mikhail N. Golovina, Ekaterina O. Kopeina, Ekaterina I. Kutenkov, Stanislav A. Sennikov, Alexander N. 2019-01-24 application/pdf https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/77922 eng eng Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/77922/38877 https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/77922 Copyright (c) 2019 Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica; Vol 95 (2019): Yearbook 2019; 1-35 1796-9816 0373-6873 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2019 fttsvojs 2020-05-29T19:39:57Z The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island (White Sea Throat, Murmansk Region, Russia) has been studied and described in detail. This is a small island situated within the tundra zone, largely covered by a permafrost peatland with the presence of flarks, a palsa mire, and rock outcrops. Vascular plants of Sosnovets Island include 167 species and subspecies, of which 134 species and subspecies are considered native and 33 species are alien. The number of tundra species is higher and that of boreal species is lower than on the other White Sea islands; a few species with eastern distributions in East Europe are present; 6 protected species are recorded. Alien species were mostly transported from Arkhangelsk Region but partly from Central Russia; main pathways were forage, construction and gardens; one species (Alchemilla cymatophylla) was likely introduced as a polemochore. The vegetation of Sosnovets Island is represented by a complex of lichen, dwarf-shrub, cottongrass-sphagnous and sedge-sphagnous communities of the peatland, which covers the major part of the island, as well as dwarf-shrub and lichen tundras, coastal vegetation, willow thickets, dwarf cornel (Cornus suecica) and secondary anthropogenic meadows and grasslands. A palsa mire, marshes with Calamagrostis deschampsioides, highly dissected peatlands with cloudberry-crowberry-lichen communities on elevated sites and cottongrass-sphagnous communities in depressions are the unique features of the island’s vegetation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arkhangelsk Crowberry palsa permafrost Tundra White Sea Cottongrass Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Murmansk White Sea |
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The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island (White Sea Throat, Murmansk Region, Russia) has been studied and described in detail. This is a small island situated within the tundra zone, largely covered by a permafrost peatland with the presence of flarks, a palsa mire, and rock outcrops. Vascular plants of Sosnovets Island include 167 species and subspecies, of which 134 species and subspecies are considered native and 33 species are alien. The number of tundra species is higher and that of boreal species is lower than on the other White Sea islands; a few species with eastern distributions in East Europe are present; 6 protected species are recorded. Alien species were mostly transported from Arkhangelsk Region but partly from Central Russia; main pathways were forage, construction and gardens; one species (Alchemilla cymatophylla) was likely introduced as a polemochore. The vegetation of Sosnovets Island is represented by a complex of lichen, dwarf-shrub, cottongrass-sphagnous and sedge-sphagnous communities of the peatland, which covers the major part of the island, as well as dwarf-shrub and lichen tundras, coastal vegetation, willow thickets, dwarf cornel (Cornus suecica) and secondary anthropogenic meadows and grasslands. A palsa mire, marshes with Calamagrostis deschampsioides, highly dissected peatlands with cloudberry-crowberry-lichen communities on elevated sites and cottongrass-sphagnous communities in depressions are the unique features of the island’s vegetation. |
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Kozhin, Mikhail N. Golovina, Ekaterina O. Kopeina, Ekaterina I. Kutenkov, Stanislav A. Sennikov, Alexander N. |
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Kozhin, Mikhail N. Golovina, Ekaterina O. Kopeina, Ekaterina I. Kutenkov, Stanislav A. Sennikov, Alexander N. The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea |
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Kozhin, Mikhail N. Golovina, Ekaterina O. Kopeina, Ekaterina I. Kutenkov, Stanislav A. Sennikov, Alexander N. |
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Kozhin, Mikhail N. |
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The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea |
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The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea |
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The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea |
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The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea |
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The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea |
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flora and vegetation of sosnovets island, the white sea |
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Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica |
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2019 |
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https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/77922 |
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Murmansk White Sea |
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Murmansk White Sea |
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Arkhangelsk Crowberry palsa permafrost Tundra White Sea Cottongrass |
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Arkhangelsk Crowberry palsa permafrost Tundra White Sea Cottongrass |
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Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica; Vol 95 (2019): Yearbook 2019; 1-35 1796-9816 0373-6873 |
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https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/77922/38877 https://journal.fi/msff/article/view/77922 |
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