caa a22 4500 605526826 CHVBK 20210128100805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-015-0885-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-015-0885-9 Microarthropod communities of industrially disturbed or imported soils in the High Arctic; the abandoned coal mining town of Pyramiden, Svalbard [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Coulson, Arne Fjellberg, Elena Melekhina, Anastasia Taskaeva, Natalia Lebedeva, Olga Belkina, Stanisław Seniczak, Anna Seniczak, Dariusz Gwiazdowicz] The terrestrial environment of the High Arctic consists of a mosaic of habitat types, both natural and anthropogenic. At the abandoned coal mining town of Pyramiden, Svalbard, topsoil was imported from southern European Russia. This, and further industrial disturbance in the town, offers new opportunities for the native invertebrate fauna, but may also introduce alien, potentially invasive, species. Few studies have examined anthropogenic habitats in the High Arctic. But increasing activity, including industry and tourism, requires an understanding of the responses of the Arctic to such pressures. The microarthropod communities observed in the settlement were substantially different from the natural tundra. In the settlement, nine species of mesostigmatid mite occurred (three new records for Svalbard; Dendrolaelaps foveolatus) and two additional not identified to species (Halolaelaps sp., Arctoseius sp.), 26 species of Collembola (12 not seen in the natural tundra close to Pyramiden) and two new records (Thalassaphorura debilis and Desoria tigrina), but only five Oribatida. This is set against 8, 20 and 24 species respectively for Mesostigmata, Oribatida and Collembola from natural tundra in the vicinity. The imported soils remain to be yet fully exploited by the native microarthropod fauna. Taxa disparities may result from differential mortality during collection and shipping of the soil, and subsequent colonisation. While none of the introduced species appear to be invasive, responses to climate change scenarios are difficult to project. Understanding of alien species and the timespans required for colonization by native faunas are of importance for remediation and reclamation projects in polar regions. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Oribatida nationallicence Gamasida nationallicence Soil biodiversity nationallicence Introduced nationallicence Microarthropod nationallicence Alien nationallicence Coulson Stephen Department of Arctic Biology, University Centre in Svalbard, P.O. Box 156, 9171, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway aut Fjellberg Arne Mågerøveien 168, 3145, Tjøme, Norway aut Melekhina Elena Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaja, 28, 167000, Syktyvkar, Russia aut Taskaeva Anastasia Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaja, 28, 167000, Syktyvkar, Russia aut Lebedeva Natalia Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences and Azov Branch, Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chekhova 41, 344006, Rostov-on-Don, Russia aut Belkina Olga Laboratory of Flora and Vegetation, Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden and Institute, Kola Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman St. 18a, 184209, Apatity, Murmansk Province, Russia aut Seniczak Stanisław Department of Zoology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolińskich 12, 85-092, Bydgoszcz, Poland aut Seniczak Anna Department of Ecology, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Kordeckiego 20, 85-225, Bydgoszcz, Poland aut Gwiazdowicz Dariusz Department of Forest Pathology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71, 60-625, Poznan, Poland aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/7(2015-07-01), 1671-1690 0960-3115 24:7<1671 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0885-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0885-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coulson Stephen Department of Arctic Biology, University Centre in Svalbard, P.O. Box 156, 9171, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fjellberg Arne Mågerøveien 168, 3145, Tjøme, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Melekhina Elena Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaja, 28, 167000, Syktyvkar, Russia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taskaeva Anastasia Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaja, 28, 167000, Syktyvkar, Russia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lebedeva Natalia Institute of Arid Zones, Southern Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences and Azov Branch, Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chekhova 41, 344006, Rostov-on-Don, Russia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Belkina Olga Laboratory of Flora and Vegetation, Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden and Institute, Kola Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman St. 18a, 184209, Apatity, Murmansk Province, Russia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Seniczak Stanisław Department of Zoology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolińskich 12, 85-092, Bydgoszcz, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Seniczak Anna Department of Ecology, University of Technology and Life Sciences, Kordeckiego 20, 85-225, Bydgoszcz, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gwiazdowicz Dariusz Department of Forest Pathology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71, 60-625, Poznan, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/7(2015-07-01), 1671-1690 0960-3115 24:7<1671 2015 24 10531