Distribution and population characteristics of the soil mites Diapterobates notatus and Svalbardia paludicola (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae) in High Arctic Svalbard (Norway)

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Seniczak, Stanislaw, Seniczak, Anna, Graczyk, Radomir, Tømmervik, Hans, Coulson, Stephen James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Oribatid mites; Ecology; Stage and sex structure; Body size; VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; VDP::Zoology and botany: 480; Arctic; Mosselbukta; Norway; Reinsdyrflya; Svalbard; Polar Biology; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2443470; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2076-5

The Oribatida of High Arctic Svalbard are faunistically relatively well known, but the distribution, density, stage structure and other population parameters of most species are unknown. Here we focus on two ceratozetid species, Diapterobates notatus (Thorell, 1871) and Svalbardia paludicola Thor, 1...