List of species on Severnaya Zemlya
This is a list of species recorded on Severnaya Zemlya:
Flora
Vascular plants
Most common:
- Cerastium sp.
- Papaver polare
- Saxifraga caespitosa
- Saxifraga oppositifolia
Less common:
- Alopecurus alpinus
- Cerastium regelii
- Deschampsia sp.
- draba sp.
- Draba sp.
- Novosieversia glacialis
- Phippsia sp.
- Poa abbreviata
- Poa arctica
- Saxifraga cernua
- Saxifraga nivalis
- Salix polaris
- Stellaria sp.
- Minuartia sp.
Mosses
Most common:
- Detrichum flexicaule
- Dicranum sp.
- Pogonatum sp.
- Sanionia sp.
- Bryum sp.
- Orthothecium chryseum
- Tortura sp.
Less common:
- Andreaea sp.
- Aulacomnium turgidum
- Bryum cryophilum
- Calliergon giganteum
- Calliergon obtusifolium
- Calliergon sarmentosum
- Calliergon giganteum
- Campylophus sp.
- Dichodontium sp.
- Dicranoweisia sp.
- Dicranoweisia crispula
- Dirrichum sp.
- Ditrichum flexicaule
- Drepanocladus revolvens
- Drepanocladus exannulatus
- Hylocomium splendens
- Jungermannia sp.
- Loeskypnum badium
- Philonotis sp.
- Polytrichum sp.
- Ptilidium ciliare
- Racomitrium lanuginosum
- Sanionia uncinata
- Schistidium apocarpum
- Scorpidium turgescens
- Tomenthypnum nitens
Lichens
Most common:
- Cetraria nivalis
- Thamnolia vermicularis
- Cetraria sp.
- Cornicularia sp.
- Lecidea sp.
- Ochrolechia sp.
- Parmelia sp.
Less common:
- Alectoria sp.
- Buellia sp.
- Caloplaca sp.
- Cetaria cucullata
- Cetaria sp.
- Cladia sp.
- Cladonia sp.
- Dactylina arctica
- Dermatocarpon sp.
- Hypogymnia sp.
- Ochrolechia frigida
- Peltigera sp.
- Ramalina sp.
- Rhizocarpon sp.
- Sphaerophorus sp.
- Stereocaulon sp.
- Thamnolia vermicularis
- Thamnolia sp.
- Umbilicaria sp.
- Xanthoria elegans
- Xanthoria sp.
Fauna
Severnaya Zemlya is the easternmost point in the breeding range of the little auk (Alle alle)
Breeding birds
- little auk (Alle alle)
- kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
- black guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
- ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)
- glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus)
- snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
- purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
- brent goose (Branta bernicla).
- Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- herring gull (Larus argentatus)
- red-throated diver (Gavia stellata)
- king eider (Somateria spectabilis)
- sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
- long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)
- snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)
The snowy owl( Bubo scandiacus) is common across Severnaya Zemlya in years with high lemming populations.
- Lapland bunting (Calcarius lapponicus).
- pomarine skua (Stercorarius pomarinus)
- Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea)
Transient birds
- Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia)
- rook (Corvus frugilegus)
- white wagtail (Motacilla alba)
- fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
- long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis)
- common eider (Somateria mollissima)
- peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)
- knot (Calidris canutus)
- sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
- red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
- great skua (Catharacta skua)
- Sabine's gull (Xema sabini)
The long-tailed duck is speculated, but not confirmed, to breed on Severnaya Zemlya.
Mammals
- collared lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus)
- Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus)
- wolf (Canis lupus)
- ermine (Mustela erminea)
- Arctic hare (Lepus timidus)
- reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
- polar bear (Ursus maritimus)[1]
References
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