Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway
Metabarcoding of 32 sediment samples from Kongsfjorden, Norway, identified more than 150 taxa from two areas of the genome (gene CO1 and 18S DNA). From these, one potential alien species, the tunicate Botrylloides violaceus was identified. The potential negative impacts of B. violaceus and other inv...
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ftunivwagenin:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/564613 2024-02-04T09:56:16+01:00 Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway Pettersen, Ragnhild Renaud, P. van den Brink, Anneke van den Heuvel-Greve, M.J. de Groot, G.A. 2019 text/html https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/coastal-biodiversity-and-introduced-species-in-arctic-norway en eng Akvaplan niva https://edepot.wur.nl/522492 https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/coastal-biodiversity-and-introduced-species-in-arctic-norway info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess (c) publisher Wageningen University & Research Life Science info:eu-repo/semantics/report External research report info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftunivwagenin 2024-01-10T23:16:45Z Metabarcoding of 32 sediment samples from Kongsfjorden, Norway, identified more than 150 taxa from two areas of the genome (gene CO1 and 18S DNA). From these, one potential alien species, the tunicate Botrylloides violaceus was identified. The potential negative impacts of B. violaceus and other invasive colonial tunicates are significant and increased temperatures in the future arelikely to enhance vegetative growth where it has established. The threat suggested by impacts in other invasion areas indicates that targeted action to prevent B. violaceus from entering Svalbard should be initiated. Knowledge of the biodiversity around Svalbard is more sparse than for the more available marine areas. Some species might have been overlooked in the past and received astatus as invasive when they are possibly native. This results show that metabarcoding has great potential for monitoring the presence of alien species in environmental samples in the Arctic and could be used to establish a baseline.CBMP- coast expert groups from other arctic areas reports on ongoing initiatives to identify arctic aliens to have a proper baseline whereby further biodiversity monitoring effort can be performed. Report Arctic Arctic Kongsfjord* Kongsfjorden Svalbard Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library Arctic Norway Svalbard |
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Metabarcoding of 32 sediment samples from Kongsfjorden, Norway, identified more than 150 taxa from two areas of the genome (gene CO1 and 18S DNA). From these, one potential alien species, the tunicate Botrylloides violaceus was identified. The potential negative impacts of B. violaceus and other invasive colonial tunicates are significant and increased temperatures in the future arelikely to enhance vegetative growth where it has established. The threat suggested by impacts in other invasion areas indicates that targeted action to prevent B. violaceus from entering Svalbard should be initiated. Knowledge of the biodiversity around Svalbard is more sparse than for the more available marine areas. Some species might have been overlooked in the past and received astatus as invasive when they are possibly native. This results show that metabarcoding has great potential for monitoring the presence of alien species in environmental samples in the Arctic and could be used to establish a baseline.CBMP- coast expert groups from other arctic areas reports on ongoing initiatives to identify arctic aliens to have a proper baseline whereby further biodiversity monitoring effort can be performed. |
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Pettersen, Ragnhild Renaud, P. van den Brink, Anneke van den Heuvel-Greve, M.J. de Groot, G.A. |
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Pettersen, Ragnhild Renaud, P. van den Brink, Anneke van den Heuvel-Greve, M.J. de Groot, G.A. |
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Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway |
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Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway |
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Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway |
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Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway |
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Coastal biodiversity and introduced species in Arctic Norway |
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