Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of invertebrates within cryoconite holes

• Published in: Aquatic Ecology
• Main Authors: Zawierucha, Krzysztof, Buda, Jakub, Fontaneto, Diego, Ambrosini, Roberto, Franzetti, Andrea, Wierzgoń, Mariusz, Bogdziewicz, Michał
• Other Authors: K. Zawierucha, J. Buda, D. Fontaneto, R. Ambrosini, A. Franzetti, M. Wierzgoń, M. Bogdziewicz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2019
• Subjects: Extreme habitat; Polar and alpine ecosystem; Random distribution; Rotifera; Supraglacial environment; Tardigrada; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematic; Aquatic Science; Settore BIO/05 - Zoologia; Settore BIO/07 - Ecologia; Arctic; Antarctic; Norway; Longyearbreen; Ecology Glacier; Blåisen; Antarc*; glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/640833; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-019-09681-9

Cryoconite holes (water-filled reservoirs) are considered ecologically simple ecosystems but represent biological hotspots of biodiversity on glaciers. In order to check for fine-scale spatial distribution of metazoans on the bottom of the holes, in this study, we analysed three groups of grazing in...