Contrasting chironomid assemblages in two high Arctic streams on Svalbard

Chironomid communities were investigated twice in summer 1997 in a glacier-fed (Bayelva) and a non-glacial stream (Londonelva), fed by snowmelt and rainfall near Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard Archipelago, 78°N). Environmental conditions (discharge, water temperature, suspended sediment) were harsher for the...

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Published in:Fundamental and Applied Limnology
Main Authors: B. Lods Crozet, V. Lencioni, J. Brittain, L. Marziali, B. Rossaro
Other Authors: B. Lods-Crozet
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2007
Subjects:
proglacial stream
high arctic
Chironomidae
Oligochaeta
Spitzbergen
water temperature
Settore BIO/05 - Zoologia
Settore BIO/07 - Ecologia
Arctic
Svalbard
Ny-Ålesund
Svalbard Archipelago
Bayelva
glacier
Ny Ålesund
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2434/58043
https://doi.org/10.1127/1863-9135/2007/0170-0211

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