List of species on Severnaya Zemlya

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.
* "Eritrichum villosum"
* "Novosieversia glacialis"
* "Phippsia" sp.
* "Poa abbreviata"
* "Poa arctica"
* "Saxifraga cernua"
* "Saxifraga nivalis"
* "Salk polare"
* "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

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")

* 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")

Mammals

* collared lemming ("Dicrostonyx torquatus")
* Arctic fox ("Alopex lagopus")
* wolf ("Canis lupus")
* ermine ("Mustela erminea")
* Arctic hare ("Lepus timidus")
* reindeer ("Rangifer tarandus").

References

* [http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic48-3-222.pdf Bird Observations in Severnaya Zemlya]
* [http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1997-Bolter.pdf Preliminary Results of Botanical and Microbiological Investigations on Severnaya Zemlya 1995]