Pollinators on the polar edge of the Ecumene: taxonomy, phylogeography, and ecology of bumble bees from Novaya Zemlya

• Published in: ZooKeys
• Main Authors: Potapov, Grigory S., Kondakov, Alexander V., Filippov, Boris Yu., Gofarov, Mikhail Yu., Kolosova, Yulia S., Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Tomilova, Alena A., Zubrii, Natalia A., Bolotov, Ivan N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019
• Subjects: Hymenoptera; Apidae; Bombus; Arctic Ocean archipelagoes; Pleistocene glaciations; mitochondrial DNA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Norway; Southern Island; Novaya Zemlya; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3357265; https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.866.35084

The High Arctic bumble bee fauna is rather poorly known, while a growing body of recent molecular research indicates that several Arctic species may represent endemic lineages with restricted ranges. Such local endemics are in need of special conservation efforts because of the increasing anthropoge...