The impact of marine vertebrates on polar terrestrial invertebrate communities

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Zmudczyńska-Skarbeka, Katarzyna, Bokhorst, Stef, Convey, Peter, Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J., Skubała, Piotr, Zawierucha, Krzysztof, Zwolicki, Adrian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; The Antarctic; Wallows; Antarc*; Polar Biology; Mite; Springtail; Tardigrade
• Online Access: 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

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...