Phylogeography and ecology of bumble bees on Kolguev Island, a remote European Arctic landmass

• Published in: Oceanography
• Main Authors: Potapov, Grigory S., Kolosova, Yulia S., Kondakov, Alexander V., Tomilova, Alena A., Filippov, Boris Yu., Zubrii, Natalia A., Spitsyn, Vitaly M., Spitsyna, Elizaveta A., Zheludkova, Alisa A., Gofarov, Mikhail Yu., Bovykina, Galina V., Bolotov, Ivan N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2022
• Subjects: Bumble bees; High Arctic; island biogeography Pleistocene glaciations; mitochondrial DNA; Arctic; Arctic Island; Barents Sea; Kolguev
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7102871; https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1122.82993

The bumble bee fauna of the Russian Arctic is rather poorly known. Kolguev Island, a remote insular territory in the Barents Sea, is one of the deficiently studied areas. In this study, material on Kolguev's bumble bees is re-examined, phylogeographic data analysed, putative scenarios explainin...