Invertebrate community assembly along proglacial chronosequences in the high Arctic

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Hodkinson, Ian D., Coulson, Stephen J., Webb, Nigel R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Arctic; Kongsfjord; Svalbard; glacier; Kongsfjord*; Tidewater; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00829.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.0021-8790.2004.00829.x; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00829.x

Summary Invertebrate community assembly is described for two contrasting proglacial chronosequences (over 1900 years) at Kongsfjord, W. Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Three hypotheses were tested: (1) community assembly is deterministic, directional and predictable; (2) succession is inextricably linked to...