Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica)
This work contributes to the knowledge on distribution, diversity and ecology of the Antarctic soil biota. Different soil habitats from several ice-free coastal sites were sampled along the Victoria Land across 7° of latitude from 71° to 78°S during five austral summer seasons between 2003/04 and 20...
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ftmasarykunivojs:oai:ojs.journals.muni.cz:article/12815 2023-05-15T13:03:41+02:00 Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) Smykla, Jerzy Iakovenko, Nataliia Devetter, Miloslav Kaczmarek, Łukasz 2012-06-01 application/pdf http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12815 eng eng Masaryk Univerzity http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12815/11135 http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12815 Copyright (c) 2020 Czech Polar Reports https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Czech Polar Reports; Vol 2 No 2 (2012); 61-70 Czech Polar Reports; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012); 61-70 1805-0697 1805-0689 Tardigrada Metazoa biodiversity soil biota soil properties Antarctic soils info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2012 ftmasarykunivojs 2022-06-26T10:16:32Z This work contributes to the knowledge on distribution, diversity and ecology of the Antarctic soil biota. Different soil habitats from several ice-free coastal sites were sampled along the Victoria Land across 7° of latitude from 71° to 78°S during five austral summer seasons between 2003/04 and 2011/12. In this paper we report preliminary data on soil tardigrades (water bears) from Edmondson Point, Northern Victoria Land. Tardigrades were found to be present in 23 of the 41 examined soil samples (56%). Their presence was associated exclusively with soil samples collected from bryophytes communities and under cyanobacterial mats, whereas they were completely absent in fellfield and ornithogenic soils. Tardigrades were least numerous among all soil micrometazoans, their abundance in the positive samples was very variable and ranged from 3 to 1824 individuals per 100 g of soil DW. High water content seemed to be the major factor determining occurrence of tardigrades in the soils investigated. On the other hand low water content and toxic compounds from penguin guano seemed to act as a strong constraint on their existence in the Antarctic soils. Taxonomic evaluation of the extracted tardigrades revealed presence of only two species belonging to class Eutardigrada: Acutuncus antarcticus (Richters, 1904) and Milnesium antarcticum Tumanov, 2006. While A. antarcticus has already been reported previously as the most widespread and abundant tardigrade across the Victoria Land, the information on M. antarcticum is novel, both for Victoria Land and the continental Antarctica. Article in Journal/Newspaper Acutuncus antarcticus Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica antarcticus Victoria Land Tardigrade Masaryk University Journals Antarctic The Antarctic Austral Victoria Land Guano ENVELOPE(141.604,141.604,-66.775,-66.775) Edmonson Point ENVELOPE(165.133,165.133,-74.333,-74.333) Water Bears ENVELOPE(-54.431,-54.431,49.600,49.600) |
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This work contributes to the knowledge on distribution, diversity and ecology of the Antarctic soil biota. Different soil habitats from several ice-free coastal sites were sampled along the Victoria Land across 7° of latitude from 71° to 78°S during five austral summer seasons between 2003/04 and 2011/12. In this paper we report preliminary data on soil tardigrades (water bears) from Edmondson Point, Northern Victoria Land. Tardigrades were found to be present in 23 of the 41 examined soil samples (56%). Their presence was associated exclusively with soil samples collected from bryophytes communities and under cyanobacterial mats, whereas they were completely absent in fellfield and ornithogenic soils. Tardigrades were least numerous among all soil micrometazoans, their abundance in the positive samples was very variable and ranged from 3 to 1824 individuals per 100 g of soil DW. High water content seemed to be the major factor determining occurrence of tardigrades in the soils investigated. On the other hand low water content and toxic compounds from penguin guano seemed to act as a strong constraint on their existence in the Antarctic soils. Taxonomic evaluation of the extracted tardigrades revealed presence of only two species belonging to class Eutardigrada: Acutuncus antarcticus (Richters, 1904) and Milnesium antarcticum Tumanov, 2006. While A. antarcticus has already been reported previously as the most widespread and abundant tardigrade across the Victoria Land, the information on M. antarcticum is novel, both for Victoria Land and the continental Antarctica. |
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Smykla, Jerzy Iakovenko, Nataliia Devetter, Miloslav Kaczmarek, Łukasz |
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Smykla, Jerzy Iakovenko, Nataliia Devetter, Miloslav Kaczmarek, Łukasz |
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Smykla, Jerzy |
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Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) |
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Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) |
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Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) |
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Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) |
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Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) |
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diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of edmonson point (northern victoria land, continental antarctica) |
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Masaryk Univerzity |
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2012 |
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http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12815 |
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ENVELOPE(141.604,141.604,-66.775,-66.775) ENVELOPE(165.133,165.133,-74.333,-74.333) ENVELOPE(-54.431,-54.431,49.600,49.600) |
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Antarctic The Antarctic Austral Victoria Land Guano Edmonson Point Water Bears |
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Antarctic The Antarctic Austral Victoria Land Guano Edmonson Point Water Bears |
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Acutuncus antarcticus Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica antarcticus Victoria Land Tardigrade |
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Acutuncus antarcticus Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica antarcticus Victoria Land Tardigrade |
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Czech Polar Reports; Vol 2 No 2 (2012); 61-70 Czech Polar Reports; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012); 61-70 1805-0697 1805-0689 |
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http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12815/11135 http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12815 |
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