A 7000-year record of oribatid mite communities on a maritime-Antarctic island: responses to climate change

• Main Authors: Hodgson, Dominic A., Convey, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research 2005
• Subjects: Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Alaskozetes antarcticus; Antarc*; Antarctic and Alpine Research; Antarctic Fur Seals; antarcticus; Arctic; Arctocephalus gazella; Ice Sheet; Mite
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1808/

We studied the fossil remains of the common Antarctic oribatid mites, Alaskozetes antarcticus and Halozetes belgicae, in sediment cores from two lakes in adjacent catchments on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic. The aim was to examine the response of these species to 7000 yr of...