Affiliation:
1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University
3. FSBI “National Park “Kenozersky”
4. Petrozavodsk State University, Institute of Biology, Ecology of Agricultural Technologies
Abstract
The article analyzes distribution of 94 species of aquatic plants in 18 lakes, different in size, origin, trophic status, hydrological and hydrochemical conditions. Macrophytes and their communities were studied in 11 large and small lakes in the Kenozersky National Park, in 2 large lakes in the Onezhskoye Pomorye National Park, and in 5 small lakes in the Pinezhsky State Nature Reserve. The eutrophic lake Porzhenskoye in the Kenozersky National Park stands out with the greatest species number, 52 species. Fewer species of macrophytes were identified in oligotrophic lakes. It is shown that the majority of aquatic plants of the Arkhangelsk Region inhabit narrow range from low to medium total dissolved solids – 54 species. Eurybiont species, occurring in a large range of total dissolved solids from 1 to 1020 mg/l, show a great species diversity – 24 species. Only 11 species tend to grow in karst lakes with elevated level of total dissolved solids from 500 to 1020 mg/l – vascular plants: Ranunculus kauffmannii, Eleocharis acicularis, E. quinqueflora, Myriophyllum verticillatum, Potamogeton obtusifolius, Stuckenia pectinata, Sparganium hyperboreum; mosses: Calliergon cordifolium, Scorpidium scorpioides; algae: Chara aspera, C. subspinosa. The majority of species in the lakes of specially protected natural areas of the Arkhangelsk Region, growing in a narrow water pH range, are neutrophytes – 31 and neutro-alkalophytes – 27. Thirteen protected species of macrophytes were discovered in the flora of lakes in the Arkhangelsk Region – Chara aspera, C. strigosa, C. subspinosa, C. virgata, Fissidens fontanus, Fontinalis dalecarlica, F. hypnoides, Isoëtes echinospora, I. lacustris, Lobelia dortmanna, Nymphaea candida, N. tetragona, Sparganium gramineum.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences
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