Abstract
Coulson, S.J., Fjellberg, A., Snazell, R., Gwiazdowicz, D.J., and Ávila‐Jiménez, M.L., 2011. On the Collembola, Araneae and Gamasida from the Kinnvika region of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 93, 253–257. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468‐0459.2011.00425.xThe Collembola, Araneae and gamasid mite fauna from the vicinity of Kinnvika on the island of Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago are described. Few records of the invertebrate fauna from this remote and climatically extreme region exist. Twenty‐four species of Collembola were identified, of which three were new records for Nordaustlandet. None were new records for Svalbard. In addition, seven species of Araneae, three of which were new records for Nordaustlandet, and five species of gamasid mite, all new to Nordaustlandet, were collected. All invertebrates collected were already known from locations on the west coast of Spitsbergen. These records supplement the scarce current terrestrial invertebrate data for this region and contribute towards the baseline data for this region proposed to become an Arctic environmental reference area.
Highlights
The lands [...] are full of trees of a thousand kinds, so lofty that they seem to reach the sky. [...] And the nightingale was singing, and other birds of thousand sorts [...]
The first evidence of dispersal, population interconnectivity and source for populations colonizing the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard are given through a phylogeographical study in Arctic collembolan species Megaphorura arctica (Paper III), and a description on the biogeographical pattern in the Holarctic area, including descriptions of the main dispersal routes, areas of recent colonization and potential glacial refugia, is given in an analytical biogeography study (Paper IV)
Most of the high Arctic remained permanently covered by ice during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), the Wiscosian/ Weichselian glacial episode, and for possible icefree areas in the high Arctic, the environment is thought to have been harsh enough that no soil fauna could have survived in situ (Brochmann et al 2003)
Summary
First records of Zercon andrei Sellnick, 1958 and Zerconopsis muestairi (Scheweizer, 1949) (Acari, Mesostigmata) from Bjørnøya. - Mite identification, writing and editing Coulson, S. J. - Fieldwork, editing and supervision Ávila- Jiménez, - M. J., Fjellberg, A., Snazell, R., Gwiazdowicz, D.J., ÁvilaJiménez, M.L. On the Collembola, Araneae and Gamasida from the Kinnvika region of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. J. - Fieldwork, analysis, writing, editing and supervision Fjellberg, A. - Collembola identification and editing Snazell, R. - Araneae identification and editing Gwiazdowicz, D.J. - Gamasida identification and editing Ávila-Jiménez, M.L. - Fieldwork, identification of Collembola and editing J. - Fieldwork, analysis, writing, editing and supervision Fjellberg, A. - Collembola identification and editing Snazell, R. - Araneae identification and editing Gwiazdowicz, D.J. - Gamasida identification and editing Ávila-Jiménez, M.L. - Fieldwork, identification of Collembola and editing
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