National Red Data Books
Nasjonal rødliste for truete arter i Norge 1998
[Norwegian Red List 1998]. 1999. Pp. 161. Directoratet for Naturforvaltning,
Trondheim. DN-rapport 3. Uses a complicated system of 26 threat categories
allied to the former IUCN categories (pre-1994).
Trua mosar i Noreg med Svalbard. Førebelse faktaark [Threatened
bryophytes in Norway with Svalbard. Preliminary fact sheets] A.A. Frisvoll
& H.H. Blom. 1997. Pp. 170. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.
Vitenskapsmuseet Botanisk Notat 3.
The threatened macrolichens of Norway- 1995. T. Tønsberg,
Y. Gauslaa, R. Haugan, H. Holien & E. Timdal. 1996. Pp. 258. Sommerfeltia
23.
Truete og sårbare sopparter i Norge – en kommentert rødliste
[A commented Red list of threatened fungi in Norway]. E. Bendiksen, K. Høiland,
T.E. Brandrud & J.B. Jordal. 1998. Pp. 221. Fungiflora, Oslo.
ARTSDATABANKEN is currently developing a revised Red List, based on the new
IUCN criteria, which will be completed by 2006.
Floras
Norsk flora. J. Lid & D.T. Lid. 2005. Det Norske
Samlaget, Oslo. Coverage includes Norway with the arctic islands Jan Mayen
and Svalbard with Bjørnøya.
The Flora of Svalbard. O.I. Rønning. 1996. Norwegian Polar
Institute, Oslo, Norway.
Flora Nordica, vols 1, 2 and general volume. B. Jonsell (ed.). 2000,
2001, 2004. Pp. 344, 430, 274. (Bergius Foundation, Sweden). Flora Nordica,
Department of Phanerogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O.
Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Covers Denmark and the Faeroe Islands,
Finland, Iceland, Norway and associated Arctic islands, and Sweden. 15 vols
projected. Plant
Talk review of Vol. 1; Vol. 2 covers Chenopodiaceae to Fumariaceae. Available
from Koeltz Scientific Books.
A catalouge of Svalbard plants, fungi, algae and cyanobacteria. A.
Elvebakk & P. Prestrud (eds). 1996. Pp. 395. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter
198, Oslo, Norway.
Illlustrated Flora of Nordic Liverworts and Hornworts.
K. Damsholdt. 2002. Nordic Bryological Society, Lund, Sweden. Coverage includes
Faeroe Is., Norway with Jan Mayen and Svalbard, Sweden, Finland & Denmark.
Illustrated Flora of Nordic Mosses. 4 fascicles so far. E. Nyholm.
1986-1998. Nordic Bryological Society, Lund, Sweden. Coverage includes Iceland,
Norway with Jan Mayen and Svalbard, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
Vegetation
Most of land surface covered by ice sheet; tracts of bare rock common; remainder is a treeless landscape, dominated by arctic tundra of heathland species, mostly dwarf willows (Salix polaris, S. reticulata), ericaceous species like Cassiope tetragona and other arctic/alpines such as Dryas octopetala. Cryptogams abundant. (Paragraph updated and reproduced with permission from Davis, S.D. et al. (1986). Plants in Danger: What do we know? IUCN, Gland, Switzerland).
Key Institutions
Ministry
of the Environment, P.O. Box 8013 Dep, NO-0030 Oslo.
Direktoratet for Naturforvaltning
[Directorate for Nature Management], Tungasletta 2, NO-7485 Trondheim. (National
body responsible for the countryside. Responsible to the Ministry of Environment
on matters concerning nature management.)
ARTSDATABANKEN [Norwegian Biodiversity
Information Centre], Elvegata 17, NO-7491 Trondheim.
The University Centre in Svalbard,
P. Box 156, NO-9171 Longyearbyen.
Other useful links
State of the Environment Norway is a service providing information on different environmental topics, legislation, international agreements and environmental targets.
Further references cited
Elvebakk, A. & Hertel, H. 1996. Part 6. Lichens. Pp.
271-359. In: A catalouge of Svalbard plants, fungi, algae and cyanobacteria.
A. Elvebakk & P. Prestrud (eds). 1996. Pp. 395. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter
198, Oslo, Norway.
Elvebakk, A, Gjærum, H. B. & Sivertsen, S. 1996. Part 4. Fungi 2.
Myxomycota, Oomycota, Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Deyteromycota,
Basidiomycota: Uredinales and Ustilaginales. Pp. 207-259. In: A catalouge
of Svalbard plants, fungi, algae and cyanobacteria. A. Elvebakk &
P. Prestrud (eds). 1996. Pp. 395. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 198, Oslo,
Norway.
Elven, R. & Elvebakk, A. 1996. Part 1. Vascular plants. Pp. 9-55. In:
A catalouge of Svalbard plants, fungi, algae and cyanobacteria. A.
Elvebakk & P. Prestrud (eds). 1996. Pp. 395. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter
198, Oslo, Norway.
Frisvoll, A.A., Elvebakk, A., Flatberg, K.I. & Økland, R.H. 1995.
Sjekkliste over norske mosar: vitskapleg og norsk namneverk. –
NINA Temahefte 4.
Gulden, G. & Torkelsen, A-E. 1996. Part 3. Fungi 1. Basidiomycota: Agaricales,
Gastromycetales, Aphyllophorales, Exobasidiales, Dacrymycetales and Tremellales.
Pp. 173-206. In: A catalouge of Svalbard plants, fungi, algae and cyanobacteria.
A. Elvebakk & P. Prestrud (eds). 1996. Pp. 395. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter
198, Oslo, Norway.
Hansen, J.R. & Jenneborg, L.H. 1996. Part 7. Benthic marine algae and
cyanobacteria. Pp. 361-374. In: A catalouge of Svalbard plants, fungi,
algae and cyanobacteria. A. Elvebakk & P. Prestrud (eds). 1996. Pp.
395. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 198, Oslo, Norway.
Acknowledgement
This page was prepared by Dr. Kristian Hassel, Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, February 2006.
Vascular plants: 173 species are known (Elven & Elvebakk 1996)
