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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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/310222 2024-01-07T09:42:05+01:00 The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea Kozhin, Mikhail Golovina, Ekaterina Kopeina, Ekaterina Kutenkov, Stanislav Sennikov, Alexander Botany 2020-01-23T10:23:02Z 35 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/310222 eng eng Societas pro fauna et flora Fennica Kozhin , M , Golovina , E , Kopeina , E , Kutenkov , S & Sennikov , A 2019 , ' The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea ' , Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica , vol. 95 , pp. 1-35 . ORCID: /0000-0001-6664-7657/work/68614059 d0817782-c301-44b9-aaa2-4171620e1a88 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/310222 openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology Article publishedVersion 2020 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:11:00Z 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, dwarfshrub, 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. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arkhangelsk Crowberry palsa permafrost Tundra White Sea Cottongrass HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository 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, dwarfshrub, 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. Peer reviewed |
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Kozhin, Mikhail Golovina, Ekaterina Kopeina, Ekaterina Kutenkov, Stanislav Sennikov, Alexander |
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Kozhin, Mikhail Golovina, Ekaterina Kopeina, Ekaterina Kutenkov, Stanislav Sennikov, Alexander |
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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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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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Kozhin , M , Golovina , E , Kopeina , E , Kutenkov , S & Sennikov , A 2019 , ' The flora and vegetation of Sosnovets Island, the White Sea ' , Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica , vol. 95 , pp. 1-35 . ORCID: /0000-0001-6664-7657/work/68614059 d0817782-c301-44b9-aaa2-4171620e1a88 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/310222 |
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