The origin of Arctic terrestrial and freshwater tardigrades

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Pugh, Philip J. A., McInnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Greenland; Heiberg; Ice cap; Iceland; Novaya Zemlya; Polar Biology; Taimyr; Tardigrade
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504238/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050232

The tardigrade faunas of six Arctic sites (Canadian Axel Heiberg I., east and west coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya and the Russian Taimyr Peninsula) form, with those of northern North America, a coherent “Nearctic-Arctic” biogeographic cluster. This cluster is distinct from tha...