Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway
Diversity of macrobenthic communities was studied from water bodies and streams of Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway. In total 162 quantitative samples from different regions of Spitsbergen were analysed in relation to environmental variables. Macrobenthic communities were found on all kinds...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.5627575.v1 2023-05-15T15:08:07+02:00 Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway Chertoprud, Mikhail V. Palatov, Dmitry M. Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5627575.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/Macrobenthic_communities_in_water_bodies_and_streams_of_Svalbard_Norway/5627575/1 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1395092 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5627575 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology FOS Biological sciences 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified dataset Dataset 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5627575.v1 https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1395092 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5627575 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Diversity of macrobenthic communities was studied from water bodies and streams of Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway. In total 162 quantitative samples from different regions of Spitsbergen were analysed in relation to environmental variables. Macrobenthic communities were found on all kinds of substrates (except for the periglacial zone), representing a wide range of biological communities: solid-bottom, soft-bottom, macrophytes and small brook associated. However, taxonomical structure is very simplified, with particular dominance of the Chironomidae family. Chironomid larvae dominated highly in diversity, abundance and biomass. Overall macrobenthic communities were characteristic, with remarkable dominance of one species and general omnipresent taxonomical scarcity (average 2.8 species per sample). In total we found 30 taxa. We distinguished 16 types of macrobenthis communities, with characteristic dominance of different taxa: chironomids (11 types), oligochaete Enchytraeidae family (3), caddisfly Apatania zonella (1) and gammarid amphipod Gammarus setosus (1). Regarding environmental variables, temperature and pH had the most significant influence on the abundance of macrobenthic organisms. It is hypothesized that the structural convergence of different types of communities is their common response to extreme high Arctic living conditions. On the other hand, different chironomids may dominate in the same habitats and water bodies. This gives the effect of lower average similarity of communities and high β-diversity. Dataset Arctic Svalbard Spitsbergen DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago Norway |
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Diversity of macrobenthic communities was studied from water bodies and streams of Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway. In total 162 quantitative samples from different regions of Spitsbergen were analysed in relation to environmental variables. Macrobenthic communities were found on all kinds of substrates (except for the periglacial zone), representing a wide range of biological communities: solid-bottom, soft-bottom, macrophytes and small brook associated. However, taxonomical structure is very simplified, with particular dominance of the Chironomidae family. Chironomid larvae dominated highly in diversity, abundance and biomass. Overall macrobenthic communities were characteristic, with remarkable dominance of one species and general omnipresent taxonomical scarcity (average 2.8 species per sample). In total we found 30 taxa. We distinguished 16 types of macrobenthis communities, with characteristic dominance of different taxa: chironomids (11 types), oligochaete Enchytraeidae family (3), caddisfly Apatania zonella (1) and gammarid amphipod Gammarus setosus (1). Regarding environmental variables, temperature and pH had the most significant influence on the abundance of macrobenthic organisms. It is hypothesized that the structural convergence of different types of communities is their common response to extreme high Arctic living conditions. On the other hand, different chironomids may dominate in the same habitats and water bodies. This gives the effect of lower average similarity of communities and high β-diversity. |
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Chertoprud, Mikhail V. Palatov, Dmitry M. Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta |
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Chertoprud, Mikhail V. Palatov, Dmitry M. Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta |
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Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway |
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Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway |
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Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway |
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Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway |
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Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway |
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macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of svalbard, norway |
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