Scientific publications

An annotated list of mosses was compiled for the Teriberka area in the tundra zone on the Kola Peninsula (Barents Sea coast, Murmansk Region, North-West Russia). The study area includes the environs of Teriberskaya Bay, lower reaches of the Teriberka and Orlovka Rivers, the Teriberka village and the Dolgiy Brook valley. We used the results of our two expeditions, data from the literature, and moss specimens collected in previous years by other researchers and deposited in KPABG herbarium. The list is made up of 164 moss species, of wich 74 are indicated for this area for the first time. The relatively low diversity can be explained by the geological features of the region, which is composed of granites and granitoids. Therefore, the complex of basiphyllic (calciphilous) species on the rocks is poor and many eutrophic mire mosses are absent. The halotolerant species complex includes Schistidium maritimum, Amblystegium serpens, Ptychostomum elegans, Tortula hoppeana, Sanionia uncinata, but such mosses as Hennediella heimii and Distichium hagenii were not detected in Teriberka, although they are known in more eastern coastal floras of the Kola Peninsula. Currently, 7 mosses of the Teriberka surroundings are listed in the regional Red Data Book (2014): Andreaea alpina, A. blyttii, Buxbaumia aphylla, Dicranum leioneuron, A. crassinervia, Cynodontium suecicum, Rhabdoweisia fugax. For the latter three species new locations have been found. A. blyttii and B. aphylla are novel for this area. The Teriberka Nature Park was found to harbor 113 moss species. The Park, however, does not fully protect rare mossеs because most of their locations are situated outside of it.