Diversity of diatoms in soils of the northeast of the European part of Russia

Abstract

This paper summarized the literature and original data about the species diversity of diatoms in the soils of the Northeastern European Russia. The list of species includes 142 species, from 2 classes, 13 orders, 25 families and 44 genera. Eunotia fallax, Nitzschia palea, Pinnularia borealis, P. subcapitata had a highest frequency of occurrence. The largest number of species found in the coastal ecotones of lakes in the valley of the river Vangyr and in mountain-tundra soils in the Subpolar Urals.