Freshwater ostracods (Crustacea) and environmental variability of polygon ponds in the tundra of the Indigirka Lowland, north-east Siberia

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Schneider, Andrea, Wetterich, Sebastian, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Meyer, Hanno, Pestryakova, Lyudmila A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2016
• Subjects: Arctic limnology; permafrost; patterned ground; ecological indication; freshwater ostracods; Arctic; Indigirka; Polar Research; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3284; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v35.25225

Freshwater ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda) are valuable biological indicators. In Arctic environments, their habitat conditions are barely known and the abundance and diversity of ostracods is documented only in scattered records with incomplete ecological characterization. To determine the taxonom...