dc.contributor.author | Coulson, Stephen James | |
dc.contributor.author | Fjellberg, Arne | |
dc.contributor.author | Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lebedeva, Natalia V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Melekhina, Elena N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Solhøy, Torstein | |
dc.contributor.author | Erséus, Christer | |
dc.contributor.author | Maraldo, Kristine | |
dc.contributor.author | Miko, Ladislav | |
dc.contributor.author | Schatz, Heinrich | |
dc.contributor.author | Schmelz, Rüdiger M | |
dc.contributor.author | Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen | |
dc.contributor.author | Stur, Elisabeth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-07T09:47:59Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-25T11:57:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-07T09:47:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-25T11:57:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Polar Research 2013, 32 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 1751-8369 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2387182 | |
dc.description.abstract | The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat
types. In addition to the natural habitat diversity, various human-influenced
types may occur. For the resident invertebrate fauna, these anthropogenic
habitats may be either unusually favourable or detrimental. In the town of
Barentsburg, Svalbard, soils were imported for the greenhouses from southern
Russia. These soils were subsequently discarded outside the greenhouses and
have become augmented with manure from the cowsheds. Both the greenhouse
and the cowsheds are now derelict. This site represents an unusually
nutrient-rich location with considerable development of organic soils, in
stark contrast to the naturally forming organic soils in Svalbard, which are
typically thin and nutrient poor. Few previous studies have examined the soil
invertebrate communities of human-disturbed or -created habitats in the
Arctic. In an often nutrient-poor terrestrial environment, it is unclear how the
invertebrate fauna will react to such nutrient enhancement. In these soils,
46 species of invertebrates were determined. Eleven species have not been
recorded from other habitats in Svalbard and are hence likely to have been
introduced. The native species assemblage in the anthropogenic soils was not
atypical for many natural sites in Svalbard. Despite the enriched organic soils
and highly ameliorated winter temperature conditions, the soil invertebrate
fauna biodiversity does not appear to be enhanced beyond the presence of
certain probably introduced species. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Co-Action Publishing | nb_NO |
dc.rights | Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell 3.0 Norge | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/no/ | * |
dc.title | The invertebrate fauna of anthropogenic soils in the High-Arctic settlement of Barentsburg, Svalbard | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.date.updated | 2016-04-07T09:47:59Z | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Zoogeografi: 486 | nb_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Zoogeography: 486 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 32 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Polar Research | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3402/polar.v32i0.19273 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1039907 | |
dc.description.localcode | Polar Research 2013. # 2013 S.J. Coulson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | nb_NO |