The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities
Marine birds and pinnipeds which come to land to breed, rest and moult are widely known to fertilize adjacent terrestrial ecosystems, with cascading effects on vegetation and other trophic levels. We provide a synthesis of the consequences of allochthonous nutrient enrichment for terrestrial inverte...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:533338 2023-06-11T04:06:18+02:00 The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna Bokhorst, Stef Convey, Peter Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. Skubała, Piotr Zawierucha, Krzysztof Zwolicki, Adrian 2023-04-26 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533338/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533338/1/s00300-023-03134-8.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8 en eng Springer https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533338/1/s00300-023-03134-8.pdf Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna; Bokhorst, Stef; Convey, Peter orcid:0000-0001-8497-9903 Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J.; Skubała, Piotr; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Zwolicki, Adrian. 2023 The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities. Polar Biology. 16, pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8> cc_by_4 Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2023 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8 2023-05-04T23:02:43Z Marine birds and pinnipeds which come to land to breed, rest and moult are widely known to fertilize adjacent terrestrial ecosystems, with cascading effects on vegetation and other trophic levels. We provide a synthesis of the consequences of allochthonous nutrient enrichment for terrestrial invertebrate communities within and around marine vertebrate aggregation sites and nutrient sources in the High Arctic and Continental and Maritime Antarctic, the most nutrient-poor and environmentally extreme parts of the polar regions. Using a combination of literature review (identifying 19 articles from the Arctic Svalbard archipelago and 12 from different Antarctic locations) and new analyses of available datasets of springtail, mite and tardigrade community composition, we confirmed that terrestrial invertebrate abundance and species richness tended to increase, and their community compositions changed, as a result of marine vertebrate fertilisation in both polar regions. These changes were significantly greater on talus slopes enriched by kittiwakes, guillemots and little auks in the Arctic, as compared to the edges of penguin colonies in the Antarctic. Both these habitat areas were typically abundantly vegetated and provided the most favourable microhabitat conditions for terrestrial invertebrates. The most heavily disturbed and manured areas within Antarctic penguin rookeries and seal wallows, generally on flat or gently sloping ground, were typically characterised by extremely low invertebrate diversity. In the Arctic, only sites directly beneath densely-occupied bird cliffs were to some extent comparably barren. Invertebrate responses are dependent on a combination of vertebrate activity, local topography and vegetation development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Polar Biology Svalbard Mite Springtail Tardigrade Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic Arctic Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago The Antarctic Wallows ENVELOPE(-45.605,-45.605,-60.691,-60.691) Polar Biology |
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Marine birds and pinnipeds which come to land to breed, rest and moult are widely known to fertilize adjacent terrestrial ecosystems, with cascading effects on vegetation and other trophic levels. We provide a synthesis of the consequences of allochthonous nutrient enrichment for terrestrial invertebrate communities within and around marine vertebrate aggregation sites and nutrient sources in the High Arctic and Continental and Maritime Antarctic, the most nutrient-poor and environmentally extreme parts of the polar regions. Using a combination of literature review (identifying 19 articles from the Arctic Svalbard archipelago and 12 from different Antarctic locations) and new analyses of available datasets of springtail, mite and tardigrade community composition, we confirmed that terrestrial invertebrate abundance and species richness tended to increase, and their community compositions changed, as a result of marine vertebrate fertilisation in both polar regions. These changes were significantly greater on talus slopes enriched by kittiwakes, guillemots and little auks in the Arctic, as compared to the edges of penguin colonies in the Antarctic. Both these habitat areas were typically abundantly vegetated and provided the most favourable microhabitat conditions for terrestrial invertebrates. The most heavily disturbed and manured areas within Antarctic penguin rookeries and seal wallows, generally on flat or gently sloping ground, were typically characterised by extremely low invertebrate diversity. In the Arctic, only sites directly beneath densely-occupied bird cliffs were to some extent comparably barren. Invertebrate responses are dependent on a combination of vertebrate activity, local topography and vegetation development. |
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Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna Bokhorst, Stef Convey, Peter Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. Skubała, Piotr Zawierucha, Krzysztof Zwolicki, Adrian |
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Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna Bokhorst, Stef Convey, Peter Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. Skubała, Piotr Zawierucha, Krzysztof Zwolicki, Adrian The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna Bokhorst, Stef Convey, Peter Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J. Skubała, Piotr Zawierucha, Krzysztof Zwolicki, Adrian |
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The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities |
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2023 |
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http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533338/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533338/1/s00300-023-03134-8.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8 |
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ENVELOPE(-45.605,-45.605,-60.691,-60.691) |
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Antarctic Arctic Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago The Antarctic Wallows |
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Antarctic Arctic Svalbard Svalbard Archipelago The Antarctic Wallows |
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Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Polar Biology Svalbard Mite Springtail Tardigrade |
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Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Polar Biology Svalbard Mite Springtail Tardigrade |
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533338/1/s00300-023-03134-8.pdf Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna; Bokhorst, Stef; Convey, Peter orcid:0000-0001-8497-9903 Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J.; Skubała, Piotr; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Zwolicki, Adrian. 2023 The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities. Polar Biology. 16, pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-023-03134-8> |
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