On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen
Abstract The archipelago of Svalbard in the European High Arctic lies on the convergence of the Palaearctic and Nearctic flora and fauna and contains elements of both regions. The island of Hopen is located in the south east of the archipelago within the path of the cold south−westerly flowing East...
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crdegruyter:10.2478/popore-2014-0002 2023-05-15T14:48:16+02:00 On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen Coulson, Stephen J. Schatz, Heinrich Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. Solhøy, Torstein 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/popore-2014-0002 https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/popore/35/1/article-p133.xml https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/popore.2014.35.issue-1/popore-2014-0002/popore-2014-0002.pdf unknown Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Polish Polar Research volume 35, issue 1, page 133-139 ISSN 2081-8262 0138-0338 Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2014 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.2478/popore-2014-0002 2022-04-14T05:12:21Z Abstract The archipelago of Svalbard in the European High Arctic lies on the convergence of the Palaearctic and Nearctic flora and fauna and contains elements of both regions. The island of Hopen is located in the south east of the archipelago within the path of the cold south−westerly flowing East Svalbard Current originating in the Arctic ocean and flowing along the north Russian coast. This current is postulated as a colonization route of the invertebrate fauna of Svalbard. Few reports of the terrestrial invertebrates of Hopen exist and none of the mite suborders Oribatida or Mesostigmata. With the taxonomic confusion existing in the inventories of this important region of the Arctic, new sampling campaigns with species identified by modern taxonomic principles and with material deposited in accessible museums and collections are essential. Identified mites included six species of oribatid mites with Diapterobates notatus dominating, and five species of Mesostigmata with Zercon forsslundi forming the dominant species. None of the species collected was a new record for Svalbard and all have wide circumpolar, Palaearctic or Holarctic distributions. Dispersal to Svalbard from northern Russia is hence neither supported nor rejected. The expected oribatid and mesostigmatid diversity of the island is greater than observed from the limited sampling described here. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Hopen Polar Research Svalbard Hopen Mite De Gruyter (via Crossref) Arctic Arctic Island ENVELOPE(-74.766,-74.766,62.234,62.234) Arctic Ocean Hopen ENVELOPE(9.279,9.279,63.379,63.379) Svalbard Polish Polar Research 35 1 133 139 |
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Abstract The archipelago of Svalbard in the European High Arctic lies on the convergence of the Palaearctic and Nearctic flora and fauna and contains elements of both regions. The island of Hopen is located in the south east of the archipelago within the path of the cold south−westerly flowing East Svalbard Current originating in the Arctic ocean and flowing along the north Russian coast. This current is postulated as a colonization route of the invertebrate fauna of Svalbard. Few reports of the terrestrial invertebrates of Hopen exist and none of the mite suborders Oribatida or Mesostigmata. With the taxonomic confusion existing in the inventories of this important region of the Arctic, new sampling campaigns with species identified by modern taxonomic principles and with material deposited in accessible museums and collections are essential. Identified mites included six species of oribatid mites with Diapterobates notatus dominating, and five species of Mesostigmata with Zercon forsslundi forming the dominant species. None of the species collected was a new record for Svalbard and all have wide circumpolar, Palaearctic or Holarctic distributions. Dispersal to Svalbard from northern Russia is hence neither supported nor rejected. The expected oribatid and mesostigmatid diversity of the island is greater than observed from the limited sampling described here. |
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Coulson, Stephen J. Schatz, Heinrich Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. Solhøy, Torstein |
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On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen |
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On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen |
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On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen |
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On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen |
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On the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (Acari) of the High Arctic island of Hopen |
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on the oribatid and mesostigmatid mites (acari) of the high arctic island of hopen |
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