Aerial dispersal of invertebrates over a high-Arctic glacier foreland: Midtre Lovenbreen, Svalbard
Aerial dispersal of invertebrates over a high-Arctic glacier foreland: Midtre Lovenbreen, Svalbard
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DOI:
10.1007/s00300-003-0516-x
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发表时间:
2003-08-01
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1.7
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Webb, NR
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作者:
Coulson, SJ;Hodkinson, ID;Webb, NR
Aerial dispersal of the invertebrate community was studied at seven sites along a chronosequence across the proglacial region of a retreating high-Arctic glacier, Midtre Lovenbreen, Svalbard, Norway. Invertebrates were sampled using water and sticky traps in successive summers. Large numbers of Diptera, Hymenoptera and Araneae were caught by both trap types and these groups were present at all sites, including the youngest and unvegetated site 1. Lower sticky traps (less than or equal to25 cm) caught >95% of individuals. Numbers of species tended to increase with site age. Total catch, however, often peaked at site 4 and then declined. Araneae were the exception, in which species number stabilised by site 2, but total catch increased from sites 1 to 7. Invertebrates rapidly reached newly exposed land surfaces. A few ballooning spiders were caught on upper sticky traps but evidence of wind dispersal by Collembola or mites was lacking.