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Terrestrial lithophilic algae in a granite canyon of the Teteriv River (Ukraine)

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Sixty-eight species of algae were found on granite outcrops of a canyon of the Teteriv River in the forest zone of Ukraine (Cyanoprokaryota 1 species, Chlorophyta 49, Streptophyta 11, Xanthophyta 2, Eustigmatophyta 1, Bacillariophyta 4). Two of these are new records for the flora of Ukraine [Spirotaenia bryophila (Brébisson) Lütkemüller and Coelastrella multistriata (Trenkwalder) Kalina et Punčochářová] and several are rare and interesting species [Stichococcus mirabilis Lagerheim, Dictyochloropsis splendida Geitler, D. reticulata (Tschermak-Woess) Tschermak-Woess, Mesotaenium macrococcum (Kützing) Roy et Bisset, M. chlamydosporum De Bary, Klebsormidium cf. bilatum Lokhorst]. The species composition of algae of this granite canyon was characterized by the following specific features: a high diversity of green algae (mainly trebouxiophycean and streptophycean algae); a considerable species diversity and abundance of green conjugating algae among the mentioned streptophycean algae; a low species diversity of cyanoprokaryotes, as well as the presence of the genera Mesotaenium Nägeli and Trentepohlia Martius in the dominating complex. Two slopes of the canyon with different expositions and plant cover were characterized by different proportions of epilithic and chasmoendolithic groups of algae as well as different dominating complexes. The species composition of algae from granite canyon of forest zone was the most similar to the more humid and shaded habitats of a granite canyon of steppe zone of Ukraine studied previously.

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Mikhailyuk, T.I. Terrestrial lithophilic algae in a granite canyon of the Teteriv River (Ukraine). Biologia 63, 824–830 (2008). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-008-0104-1

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