Enchytraeid assemblages at the foot of a talus slope in Skansbukta on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen

• Main Authors: Jiří Schlaghamersky, Miloslav Devetter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 2019
• Subjects: soil animals; svalbard; isfjorden; enchytraeidae; marionina mimula; Microbiology; QR1-502; Zoology; QL1-991; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Isfjord; Arctic Island; Skansbukta; Isfjord*; Isfjorden; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25674/so91iss3pp97; https://doaj.org/article/cd27a5a217ee41249a0e22d15f370d69

Enchytraeids are an important component of Arctic ecosystems both as decomposers and part of the foodchain. Compared to other regions of the High Arctic, the enchytraeid fauna of Spitsbergen and some other islands of the Svalbard archipelago have been explored rather well but we still lack informati...