scholarly journals Population densities and diversity of Calliphoridae (Diptera) around a nickel-copper smelter at Monchegorsk, Northwestern Russia

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kozlov ◽  
Terry Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Kola Peninsula ◽  
Copper Smelter ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Total Abundance ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Pollution Gradient ◽  
Nickel Copper ◽  
First Time ◽  
Northwestern Russia

In the summer of 2000, we collected blowflies (Calliphoridae) in ten sites around the Severonikel smelter on the Kola Peninsula. Meat-baited funnel traps (three per site), operated from June 10 to August 30, yielding 973 specimens of ten blowfly species; eight species are reported from the Kola Peninsula for the first time. The maximum catch (495 individuals), obtained at the site located 1 km from the smelter, was due to the synanthropic preferences of the two most common species, Protophormia terraenovae and Cynomya mortuorum. Neither total abundance nor diversity of blowflies attracted by meat baits changed along the pollution gradient.

scholarly journals Distribution of ground beetles of the genus Amara Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the agrolandscape in Northwestern Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
O. G. Guseva ◽  
A. G. Koval
Keyword(s):  
Common Species ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Phleum Pratense ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Pitfall Trapping ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Species Richness And Abundance ◽  
First Time ◽  
Phleum Pratense L ◽  
Northwestern Russia

The article investigates the abundance of beetles of the genus Amara in the agrolandscape of the Leningrad Region. In the period from 2004 to 2010, 14 Amara species were collected by pitfall trapping. Amara fulva (O.F. Müll.) is the most common species in the potato and clean fallow fields, Amara similata (Gyll.) – in the grain and grasses fields, and A. communis (Pz.) ˗ in adjacent semi-natural habitats respectively. The cluster analysis shows that assemblages of ground beetles of the genus Amara in fields of different crops, field boundaries, and adjacent habitats are separated from each other. In the agrolandscape, the population of beetles of the genus Amara reaches its greatest species richness and abundance in perennial grassfields. In addition, to our best knowledge, this research was a first time when Amara ingenua (Duft.) was observed feeding on the flowering spikelets of timothy grass (Phleum pratense L.).

scholarly journals Population densities and diversity of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) along an air pollution gradient on the Kola Peninsula, Russia¹

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kozlov ◽  
Jukka Jalava ◽  
Alexandr Lvovsky ◽  
Kauri Mikkola
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Species Richness ◽  
Kola Peninsula ◽  
Forest Decline ◽  
Total Catch ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Pollution Gradient ◽  
Unpolluted Area ◽  
Polluted Sites ◽  
Pollution Impact

The noctuid moths were monitored by means of bait traps from 1991 to 1993 in the area polluted by the Severonikel smelter on the Kola Peninsula. The total catch was 869 specimens belonging to 21 species. The catches peaked in sites representing the earlier stages of forest decline, being about two times as large as in the unpolluted area. The noctuid moths were heterogeneous in their response to pollution impact: (1) Xestia rhaetica, X. speciosa and Eurois occultus showed a clinal decline towards the emission source, (2) Diarsia mendica peaked at slightly polluted sites, (3) Acronicta auricoma, Hyppa rectilinea, Apamea maillardi and Xestia alpicola were most abundant in moderately polluted areas, (4) a mountain tundra species, Polia conspicua, was collected in heavily polluted sites only. However, neither species richness nor diversity of Noctuidae were affected by pollution.

scholarly journals Lepidoptera of tundra habitats of the northern Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kozlov ◽  
Jaakko Kullberg
Keyword(s):  
Kola Peninsula ◽  
Arctic Species ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Alpine Species ◽  
Routine Sampling ◽  
First Time ◽  
Regional Fauna ◽  
Northwestern Russia

Sampling of 10 sites in 1994–2006 along roads connecting Murmansk with Teriberka and Dalniye Zelentsy yielded 140 species of moths and butterflies. Epinotia immundana and Ortholepis vacciniella are recorded for the first time from the Kola Peninsula, which increased the regional fauna to 690 species. Although some arcto-alpine species have been collected (in particular Sparganothis praecana, Catastia kistrandella, Euphydryas iduna, Glacies coracina), the fauna was clearly dominated by species typical for the forested habitats of the central part of the Kola Peninsula. This result suggests that the ‘routine’ sampling in north-eastern tundra between Murmansk and Ponoj might not be as important in terms of biogeography as it has been expected. Instead, new collecting trips should be oriented to areas with special vegetation, primarily limestone or sandy areas which are more likely to support more eastern and/or arctic species.

Heavy metals in birch leaves around a nickel-copper smelter at Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia

1995 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Kozlov ◽  
E. Haukioja ◽  
A.V. Bakhtiarov ◽  
D.N. Stroganov
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Copper Smelter ◽  
Nickel Copper ◽  
Northwestern Russia

Snowpack changes around a nickel–copper smelter at Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1684-1690
Author(s):  
Mikhail V Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
Snow Depth ◽  
Forest Disturbance ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Copper Smelter ◽  
Winter Precipitation ◽  
Forest Damage ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Nickel Copper ◽  
Northwestern Russia

Snow depth in industrial barrens adjacent to the nickel–copper smelter at Monchegorsk (Kola peninsula, northwestern Russia) by the end of the winter was reduced to one-third of the depth observed in weakened and healthy forests located 30–65 km from the smelter; this reduction was due to both decline (by one-half) in the amount (mass) of snow and increase in snow density. Since winter precipitation in Monchegorsk was about the same as in an unpolluted locality 56 km south-southwest of the smelter, and snowpack characteristics correlated with site-specific wind speed, the low amount of snow around the smelter is presumably due to snow movement from open windy habitats and enhanced snow evaporation during the wind transport; higher snow densities may be explained by wind-induced compaction of snow particles. Pollution affects snowpack characteristics by modifying wind regime via forest damage; in turn, decline in snow depth influence the growth form and (possibly) performance of trees that managed to survive in heavily polluted habitats. Thus, initial (partially pollution-induced) forest disturbance, through secondary effects, may enhance further disturbance in a positive feedback fashion; therefore, possible ecological effects of pollution-related snowpack changes should be accounted for in field studies conducted along pollution gradients within the forest zone.

scholarly journals Lepidoptera of Terskij seashore of the Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kozlov ◽  
Jaakko Kullberg
Keyword(s):  
Kola Peninsula ◽  
White Sea ◽  
The White Sea ◽  
First Time ◽  
Regional Fauna ◽  
Northwestern Russia

The fauna of moths and butterflies of the Western part of the Kola Peninsula is reasonably well documented, while data from Eastern part are scarce, and only five species have so far been recorded from the White Sea shore between Kuzomen and Ponoi. Here we report the results of sampling conducted on June 29–July 2, 2004, in 14 sites along a 150 km stretch between Kuzomen and Pulonga. Among 146 collected species of Lepidoptera, 12 are recorded for the first time from the Kola Peninsula, which increased the regional fauna to 688 species. For Udea nebulalis, which is for the first time reported from Russia, we provide additional records from Karelia.

scholarly journals New Records of Lepidoptera from the Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kozlov ◽  
Jukka Jalava ◽  
Elena Shutova
Keyword(s):  
Kola Peninsula ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Time ◽  
Northwestern Russia

We report 91 species of Lepidoptera discovered from the Kola Peninsula for the first time and confirm records of 15 species from which our earlier information was based solely on the literature. Tinea svenssoni Opheim, 1965, Biselachista kebneella Traugott-Olsen & Nielsen, 1977 and Apotomis fraterculana Krogerus, 1945 are reported for the first time from Russia. The Lepidopteran fauna of the Kola Peninsula now numbers 676 species.

The revision of lichens, lichenicolous and non-lichenized fungi from the Vodlozersky National Park (Republic of Karelia, Russia) in the Herbarium of the Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-348
Author(s):  
V. N. Tarasova ◽  
T. Ahti ◽  
O. Vitikainen ◽  
A. V. Sonina ◽  
L. Myllys
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Lichenized Fungi ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Lichenicolous Fungi ◽  
Biogeographic Province ◽  
Botanical Museum ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lichen Flora

This is a report of a revision of 565 herbarium specimens of lichens, lichenicolous or non-lichenized fungi and additional locality records of common species produced from a visit of the Russian-Finnish expedition to Vodlozersky National Park right after its foundation in 1991. The analyzed collection and field records represent the earliest information about the lichen flora of the territory of the park. In total, 177 species are listed including 173 lichens, 3 non-lichenized and 1 lichenicolous fungi. Xylographa rubescens is new to the Republic of Karelia. Twenty two species are reported for the first time for biogeographic province Karelia transonegensis; 47 species for the Karelian part of Vodlozersky National Park; and 17 species for the whole territory of the park.

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