The invertebrate fauna of anthropogenic soils in the High-Arctic settlement of Barentsburg, Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Coulson, Stephen James, Fjellberg, Arne, Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz J., Lebedeva, Natalia V., Melekhina, Elena N., Solhøy, Torstein, Erséus, Christer, Maraldo, Kristine, Miko, Ladislav, Schatz, Heinrich, Schmelz, Rüdiger M, Søli, Geir Einar Ellefsen, Stur, Elisabeth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Co-Action Publishing 2016
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Zoogeografi: 486; VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Zoogeography: 486; Arctic; Barentsburg; Svalbard; Polar Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2387182; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.19273

The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat types. In addition to the natural habitat diversity, various human-influenced types may occur. For the resident invertebrate fauna, these anthropogenic habitats may be either unusually favourable or detrimental. In the to...