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Ultramafic vegetation and soils in the circumboreal region of the Northern Hemisphere

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Abstract

The paper summarizes literature on climate, soil chemistry, vegetation and metal accumulation by plants found on ultramafic substrata in the circumboreal zone (sensu Takhtajan, Floristic regions of the world, 1986) of the Northern Hemisphere. We present a list of 50 endemic species and 18 ecotypes obligate to ultramafic soils from the circumboreal region of Holarctic, as well as 30 and 2 species of Ni and Zn hyperaccumulators, respectively. The number of both endemics and hyperaccumulators are markedly lower compared to that of the Mediterranean and tropical regions. The diversity of plant communities on ultramafics soils of the circumboral region is also described. The underlying causes for the differences of ultramafic flora between arctic, cold, cool temperate and Mediterranean and tropical regions are also discussed.

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Sources: Proctor and Woodell (1971), Proctor (1992), Roberts and Proctor (1992), Ghaderian et al. (2007a, b), Bani et al. (2009, 2010, 2013); Mizuno et al. (2009), Kataeva (2013), Tomović et al. (2013), Tumi (2013), Teptina and Paukov (2015) and Stamenković et al. (2017)

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Sources: Shewry and Peterson (1976), Carter et al. (1987), Garcia-Gonzalez and Clark (1989), Alekseeva-Popova and Drozdova (1996), Ghaderian et al. (Ghaderian et al. 2007a, b), Harris et al. (2007), Mizuno et al. (2009), Kataeva (2013), Tomović et al. (2013), Tumi (2013), Alekseeva-Popova et al. (2015) and Stamenković et al. (2017)

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The authors wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on the manuscript. The work of AT and AP is financially supported by RFBR (Grant 16-04-01346) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Agreement no. 02.A03.21.0006.

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Teptina, A., Paukov, A. & Rajakaruna, N. Ultramafic vegetation and soils in the circumboreal region of the Northern Hemisphere. Ecol Res 33, 609–628 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-018-1577-1

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