Airborne fungi in Longyearbyen area (Svalbard, Norway) — case study
Abstract Studies on the presence of atmospheric fungi in both Arctic and Antarctic polar areas are rare, and many of them were carried out briefly. Currently, when climate change is a fact, polar areas may be subject to various changes and fluctuations, negatively affecting sensitive polar ecosystem...
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crspringernat:10.1007/s10661-021-09090-2 2023-05-15T14:10:40+02:00 Airborne fungi in Longyearbyen area (Svalbard, Norway) — case study Pusz, Wojciech Urbaniak, Jacek 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09090-2 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10661-021-09090-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10661-021-09090-2/fulltext.html en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Environmental Monitoring and Assessment volume 193, issue 5 ISSN 0167-6369 1573-2959 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Pollution General Environmental Science General Medicine journal-article 2021 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-09090-2 2022-01-04T15:39:38Z Abstract Studies on the presence of atmospheric fungi in both Arctic and Antarctic polar areas are rare, and many of them were carried out briefly. Currently, when climate change is a fact, polar areas may be subject to various changes and fluctuations, negatively affecting sensitive polar ecosystems. The paper presents the results of tests on presence of fungi in the air over 30 years after the last investigations at the Svalbard Archipelago. A total of fifteen taxa of fungi were isolated in area of Longyearbyen, the majority of which were saprotrophic fungi of the genus Cladosporium that are associated with dead organic matter. Therefore, the presence of this taxon may be a good bioindicator of changes occurring in the Arctic environment, indirectly indicating the melting of glaciers and exposing increasingly larger areas inhabited by microorganisms, including fungi, which increase in number in the air. Additionally, the number of tourists visiting Longyearbyen is increasing, which may significantly affect the number and type of fungi in the air. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Climate change Longyearbyen Svalbard Springer Nature (via Crossref) Arctic Antarctic Svalbard Longyearbyen Svalbard Archipelago Norway Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 193 5 |
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Abstract Studies on the presence of atmospheric fungi in both Arctic and Antarctic polar areas are rare, and many of them were carried out briefly. Currently, when climate change is a fact, polar areas may be subject to various changes and fluctuations, negatively affecting sensitive polar ecosystems. The paper presents the results of tests on presence of fungi in the air over 30 years after the last investigations at the Svalbard Archipelago. A total of fifteen taxa of fungi were isolated in area of Longyearbyen, the majority of which were saprotrophic fungi of the genus Cladosporium that are associated with dead organic matter. Therefore, the presence of this taxon may be a good bioindicator of changes occurring in the Arctic environment, indirectly indicating the melting of glaciers and exposing increasingly larger areas inhabited by microorganisms, including fungi, which increase in number in the air. Additionally, the number of tourists visiting Longyearbyen is increasing, which may significantly affect the number and type of fungi in the air. |
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